Air Asia hand carry weight allowance

[JaiLai]

The website says 7kg but I'm sure last time I used them ( March ) it was more than that?

Can anyone confirm this with recent travel?

Thanks

[Diplomatico]

It's been 7 kgs for at least a year, perhaps longer. That said, if you check in on-line and proceed directly to the gate, the hand carry bag doesn't get weighed. (May depend upon the airport but that's been my experience at CNX, KUL, and LGK.)

[yiiim2]

The carry on weight limit for Air Asia has always been one piece of cabin baggage with a maximum weight of 7kg. Additionally you can also have 1 x laptop in its carrier bag with its accessories or a handbag (male/female).

They do sometimes weigh carry on bags at the gate - I saw this about 2 months ago when boarding a flight from Don Muang to Phnom Penh.

[kkerry]

It's been 7kg carry-on for years. The screengrab is from a booking made in 2008 (when you also had 15kg free checked). Maybe you are thinking of Jet Star but even their 10KG carry on limit ended before this year.

[Briggsy]

As previous poster correctly states, it is 7kg. I flew with them last week domestically.

Some of the carry-ons looked suspiciously way over 7kg but nobody was checking. Although the flight was only 80% full so maybe that played a part.

[JaiLai]

Thanks guys

[phuketrichard]

i fly air aisa internationally 3-4 times/year ONLY use hand carry, never had it weighed

[DEQ]

They weigh at Phnom Penh.

[phuketrichard]

never weighed mine or gf's

[siam2007]

as others said, it depends on the airport, but there is now doubt they are not as strict as they used to be years ago, as they have strong competition on many routes from either Thai Lion or NOK Air or both of them, and both do not weigh hand carry and are generally more relaxed (and usually a LOT cheaper than AirAsia, be it international flights or domestic).

I believe that AirAsia simply can not afford to be that strict any longer as they would lose even more customers to those other two airlines

[wooloomooloo]

Never had unchecked baggage weighed either on Air Asia. We even brought a big rice cooker on board a few weeks ago along with our two cabin cases and no one batted an eyelid.

[fishhooks]

Never had unchecked baggage weighed either on Air Asia. We even brought a big rice cooker on board a few weeks ago along with our two cabin cases and no one batted an eyelid.

No one except your fellow passengers who in the main were following normal courtesy and not pushing the limits to inconvenience others.

[wooloomooloo]

Never had unchecked baggage weighed either on Air Asia. We even brought a big rice cooker on board a few weeks ago along with our two cabin cases and no one batted an eyelid.

No one except your fellow passengers who in the main were following normal courtesy and not pushing the limits to inconvenience others.

We even declared the rice cooker to the check-in staff and they were happy to let us proceed. We were seated in row 1 and the cooker and both cabin cases fitted in the one overhead locker.

No passengers were inconvenienced or even killed in the transportation of said rice cooker.

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[tifino]

any time you want to carry on, and the package is big - carry it!!

if what you taking on has to be towed on wheels, it automatically looks to be heavier, and attracks relatively closer attention.

Even those airline trolley bags come with a carry handle, so, use it...

[tuktuktuk]

Everything I've seen is that they allow one carry piece of luggage and one personal item. That personal item can be a lady's purse, a small backpack, a diaper bag, etc. For most people the carry on piece is usually a rolling bag or maybe a small to medium duffle bag. They only check the weight on one. I've gone on with a 7 kg rolling bag and a 15 kg small backpack. US airlines have never checked carry on weights anywhere I've gone. Almost all the non-US airlines do. I've flown BA, Air China, Thai Airways, Air France, KLM, Lufthansa, Emirates, SAS and probably some more. Business class passengers usually don't get checked. The 7 kg limit is a bit unreasonable. It's hard to find a reasonably priced bag that's less than 4 kg empty. At least in the US, carry on luggage is out of control. Perhaps this is the rest of the world's way of trying to handle that.

The last time we traveled was to essentially move here. We were some of those offenders I normally complain about. In addition to four 50 pound suitcases, both of us had two carry ons each that were too big. My wife does not travel light. She still suffers from some of the Thai scarcity mentality even after 20 relatively carefree years in the US. We also had an iMac computer in the original packing box. I figured we'd just have to pay a couple of hundred for that since it was oversized and fragile, but not too heavy. The wife insisted they would let us carry it on like people do with guitars and various other fragile stuff. Nobody at the ticket desk (United) had any answers and they just said to go ahead and try. We did what they said. When we tried to board the lady in charge there was really irritated that we had tried to bring that on board. In the end they checked it for us for no charge. It came through unscathed and we recovered at BKK without incident.