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EasyJet - helmet in the cabin?
Three of us are flying from London to Marrakesh and are going to check-in one bag between us for our tool kit etc - the stuff that is clearly not allowed in hand luggage.

Does anyone have experience with bringing your helmet into the cabin for the flight though?
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Does anyone have experience with bringing your helmet into the cabin for the flight though?
Twice last year with easyJet - Sofia BG <--> London Gatwick - return.

No problem with my helmet as carry-on hand luggage. Note - it was inside my tank bag, so completely non-contentious from anyone's point of view.
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I often fly with my gear, I wear the jacket, boots and trousers, carry a full size hold luggage backpack and my helmet. Never had a problem even on EasyJet or Ryanair. Helmet was swabbed once, asked questions about the comms kit... but no trouble.

Hell, I even left my Leatherman multitool in my pocket once. Two lockable blades. Plus a helmet and full body armour... they let me fly, just reminded me not to take it out my pocket in flight!

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Wrap a turban around it, pop it half way on your head and see if they dare ask you to remove it...

Or yeah, just put it in your cabin bag. I carried mine on in a helmet bag.

They were more bothered that I was wearing my Alpinestars Tech 10's because they had nowhere to put them when I took them off.

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Take mine on in my cabin bag all the time- if you have an intercom that is stuck on to the side of the lid you may want to remove it.
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Sounds encouraging for the helmet. We might yet fly in our riding gear; although I think we'll look like rugged adventurers/daft in the airport....!
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I always carry my helmet separately to my cabin bag when flying. I've never had a problem carrying both the cabin bag and the helmet with EasyJet (or any other airline for that matter).
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I'm flying out to Gran Canaria with EasyJet later this month and wondered what the current thoughts are on wearing motorcycle gear onto the plane and carrying the helmet as hand luggage plus a rucksack. Has anything changed since the previous replies?
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Bike gear not a problem; i regularly do it.
Helmet in hand too, but it can depend on the check in person.
I think wearing bike gear will help.
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Never had an issue, we carry a stuffed day pack and a helmet in a nice carrier, no one has ever said a word.
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It's worth checking with your airline and reading their Ts and Cs. In the past most would allow it, but some (including EZY) are reducing the amount you can take because they had problems with people taking far too much hand luggage on board because they didn't want to pay hold bag charges. So now the acceptable size of cabin bag has been reduced and they have gauges at the gates, fall foul of this and you could end up paying punitive charges to get your helmet put in the hold.
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I have carried a helmet in a cloth bag onto flights many times. I've never gotten any grief over it - why would they care..?
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I think even the tightest / nastiest would be hard to put to care - as long as you don't ALSO have a giant bag that pushes the limits too. As long as it fits in the overhead it shouldn't be a problem compared to what too many people carry. And with another smallish bag under the seat in front, you should be good.

The point is don't rub their nose in the size of what you're carrying if you don't want issues. Kinda holds for just about everything doesn't it?
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Make sure it's packed in a way you'd be happy for it to go into the hold. I'm hopefully an ex-regularly on Queasy Jet UK to Ireland and they have regular purges. If it won't go in their frame gauge thing the credit card machine comes out and it goes in the hold. Same on Lying Air on the same routes. It's usually when there are a lot of passengers from linked flights. KLM and BA let them bring a steamer trunk, then Queasy Jet pull out the fag packet gauge and demand money with menaces. You can't predict this.

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