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@Jaaamie
I'm soon to be going on tour where I'll be flying out of Heathrow (T3) with British Airways.
For the tour I will packing relatively light and will just be taking my two Ortlieb Back Roller Plus panniers (20l each)
I have 1 piece of checked luggage booked which will be my bike with rear pannier rack. I'm planning on strapping my tent poles to the top tubes. Am also trying to think of ways that i could affix other pieces of luggage to it without a pannier rack, hopefully reducing size of panniers.
Has anyone got any experience of taking panniers (potentially pretty pretty rammed) as hand luggage. My experience with my in the past has made me think that they're a little more 'flexible' with the boundaries of their hand luggage allowances as long as you're not taking the piss.
At this stage they're quoting £96 to add another checked bag to the booking. This would probably have been only £40 at the time of initial booking so I feel like a bit of a muppet already.