Cabin bag sizes, airline by airline

What actually flies free in the cabin on 29 airlines, from each airline's own baggage page — not from a 2023 listicle. Ranked by how much free bag you get.

"Biggest free bag" is the largest bag every passenger can bring at no extra cost — on budget carriers that is usually the under-seat personal item, with the full-size cabin bag sold separately or tied to fare tiers. Litres are computed from the published dimensions.

Airlines not in the table

Aer Lingus — Excluded from the size comparison: with no published personal-item dimensions and the cabin bag paid, there is no free allowance to measure. A February 2026 change extended the 10kg carry-on policy across Aer Lingus Regional flights.

Singapore Airlines — Excluded from the size comparison because the limit is published as a 115cm total, not as three dimensions. Economy allows one 7kg piece; Business and First allow two.

These aren't omissions. Each publishes its cabin rules in a form that can't be compared as three dimensions, and inventing a number to fill the row would defeat the point of the table.

Airlines we could not read

• Eurowings — the baggage pages return HTTP 403 to every request from this environment
• Transavia — the hand-luggage pages return HTTP 403 to every request from this environment
• Icelandair — the carry-on pages return HTTP 403 to every request from this environment
• Aegean — the hand-luggage pages return HTTP 403 to every request from this environment
• SunExpress — the baggage pages return HTTP 403 to every request from this environment
• Smartwings — the baggage pages return HTTP 403 to every request from this environment
• LOT Polish Airlines — the cabin-baggage page serves no readable content to a non-browser client
• Volotea — the baggage page serves no readable content to a non-browser client
• Cathay Pacific — cabin allowances are behind a route-and-fare calculator rather than published as dimensions
• Loganair — every baggage URL tried returned HTTP 404; the current path could not be found
• JetBlue — every baggage URL tried returned HTTP 404; the current path could not be found
• Pegasus Airlines — every baggage URL tried returned HTTP 404; the current path could not be found

Their allowances are on their own sites and are perfectly real; they are simply not in this table, and saying which ones and why is more useful than a table that quietly stops at 29 airlines.

One bag for all of them

A bag no bigger than 40 × 30 × 15 cm fits the free allowance on every airline above — the arithmetic is here.

Where these numbers come from

Each airline's own baggage page, fetched 19 August 2026, source-linked on every page. Several carriers changed allowances in 2025–26, so anything unsourced or undated you read elsewhere may predate the change. If a figure here is wrong, it is a mistake rather than a marketing choice, and it gets corrected with the date it changed.

Every airline

• Air Canada cabin bag size
• Air France cabin bag size
• airBaltic cabin bag size
• American Airlines cabin bag size
• Austrian Airlines cabin bag size
• British Airways cabin bag size
• Delta cabin bag size
• easyJet cabin bag size
• Emirates cabin bag size
• Etihad cabin bag size
• Finnair cabin bag size
• Iberia cabin bag size
• Jet2 cabin bag size
• KLM cabin bag size
• Lufthansa cabin bag size
• Norwegian cabin bag size
• Qantas cabin bag size
• Qatar Airways cabin bag size
• Ryanair cabin bag size
• SAS cabin bag size
• SWISS cabin bag size
• TAP Air Portugal cabin bag size
• TUI Airways cabin bag size
• Turkish Airlines cabin bag size
• United cabin bag size
• Virgin Atlantic cabin bag size
• Vueling cabin bag size
• WestJet cabin bag size
• Wizz Air cabin bag size
• The bag size that fits every airline

Allowances checked 19 August 2026 against each airline's own baggage page. Rules change with little notice — the airline's page is the authority on the day you fly.