How much hold baggage are you permitted to bring?
How many suitcases are you permitted to bring as hold baggage? This is determined by your airline. They also stipulate the maximum size and weight of your suitcases. Check your ticket or ask your airline or travel agency precisely what you are permitted to bring with you.
Regardless of how many suitcases, bags or luggage items you bring or their combined weight, no single item is permitted to weigh more than 32 kg.
TUI fly: All information about you luggage
Stricktly prohibited items
According to aviation guidelines, certain items are strictly prohibited on board an aircraft. Thus they are never permitted in hold baggage.
- Prohibited firearms (according to the Weapons Act of 9th June 2006)
- Gases, including CO2 cartridges, of more than 28g (= 50ml). You are permitted to take up to 4 cartridges of up to 28g per person. However, you must request prior permission from your airline.
- Explosives and incendiary substances and devices including, blasting caps, detonators and fuses, fireworks, other pyrothechnics, smoke-generating canisters, smoke-generating cartridges, gunpowder, dynamite, plastic explosives
- Large quantities of spray cans
- Explosive and highly flammable liquids or solids, such as detonators, explosives, turpentine, paint thinner
- Chemical and toxic substances, acids, corrosives, bleaching agents
- Hazardous products
- Toxic and infectious substances
- Oxidising agents or organic peroxides
- Radioactive material
- Corrosive material
Permitted in hold baggage, not in hand baggage
The following items are prohibited in hand baggage, but permitted in hold baggage.
- Liquids and gels, such as drinks, perfumes, creams, lotions, toothpaste, syrup, mascara, lipstick, deodorant in individual packaging of more than 100ml
- Liquids and gels such as drinks, perfumes, creams, lotions, toothpaste, syrup, mascara, lipstick, deodorant of more than the total amount permitted in hand baggage (1 litre).
- Replica firearms, toy guns, devices that discharge projectiles (e.g. staple gun), stunning devices
- Sharp or pointed objects such as scissors, knives, ski poles, pointed walking sticks, darts
- Blunt objects such as golf clubs, baseball bats, hockey sticks, billiard cues, clubs, heavy tools, martial arts equipment
- Handcuffs, boomerangs, whips, fishing rods, ice skates, shock absorbers, and tools such as crowbars, saws, drills, chisels
- Workmen’s tools including saws, drills, nail guns
Your hold baggage is screened
All hold baggage is screened for the presence of hazardous or prohibited products or objects. Should prohibited or hazardous goods be detected during hold baggage screening, then Ostend-Bruges Airport security may open your hold baggage according to EU Regulation EU 300/2008.
Your baggage is opened in your presence
You are usually present when your baggage is opened: this is known as confronting the passenger with their baggage. You will immediately be informed why your baggage underwent an additional security check.
Your baggage is opened without your presence
It is sometimes not possible to confront the passenger with their baggage, such as when the baggage arrives late for example. If the baggage contains a prohibited item, then it will be removed. Upon arrival at your destination, you will find a three-language info document with the registration number in your baggage. In this case you will not know that your baggage was opened until you reclaim it upon arrival.
Portable electronic devices
Pay extra attention to your electronic devices.
Portable electronic devices operating on lithium batteries should preferably be taken with you into the cabin. Either carry them with you or place them into your hand baggage. This enables the crew to intervene quickly should an incident occur with such a device.
Check the exact rules about devices operating on lithium batteries with your airline.
Portable electronic devices in your hold baggage must be completely switched off and properly protected to prevent them from being accidentally switched on.
Take care to:
- Deactivate all applications, alarms or preconfigured settings that can switch the device on or off.
- Protect the device against damage using suitable packaging, a protective cover or by placing it in a hard suitcase with sufficient shock absorption (e.g. clothing).
Please note! Hoverboards are not normally permitted on board. Neither in your hand baggage, nor in your hold baggage! Always check the information on hazardous goods from your airline beforehand.
Label your luggage
- Ensure that the exterior of each suitcase bears a label displaying your name at a minimum.
- Place your name and address inside your suitcase as an additional precaution.
This makes your suitcase easy to identify should you lose it.
Keep your baggage with you at all times. Baggage that is left unattended in the airport building will be removed and potentially destroyed.
