Originally Posted by BRUpax
I just measured out the new restrictions for hand baggage. Utterly ridiculous is all I can say. Invented by complete morons who obviously never travel commercially by air.
Nope, not by morons. The size was chosen, quite cleverly I believe, by an organisation that would rather have had passengers with no hand-baggage at all but was being pressured by the industry to allow some hand-baggage. So they deliberately chose a size that was smaller than most carry-on bags, on the assumption (probably a valid assumption) that at least in the short term many passengers would not go out and buy new bags and would thus be forced to check much more than they had done in the past. This limitation thus achieved their objectives of severely limiting hand-baggage by the back door, whilst still appearing to be sensitive to industry and passenger concerns.
Andy