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How much can you carry?

Your holiday could end up costing you a lot more than you thought, if you don't know how much luggage you can take with you on your flight from Gatwick or Heathrow, or one of the other south east airports.

And here's the point: most people have no idea what they're going to get charged for their hand baggage. And airline companies are able to exploit the confusion because they all have different limits and different rules.

Passengers believe it's high time the system was changed.

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