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to ask about a bumbag use on air travel?

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TheThingsWeDo4Love · 02/09/2025 09:55

Hi, I’m allowed a check-in case, and a cabin case, and a rucksack, all within the airlines specified measurements.

A friend has now suggested to me that I can also “wear” a bumbag.

I do not want to go ahead on that advice, turn up at the airport, to be told it’s not allowed, and I’m stuck with either (impossibly) trying to fit it in the (full) rucksack, or cabin case, or risk leaving it at the airport.

is there anyone who’s traveled Virgin Atlantic, who definitely knows that wearing a bumbag is allowed?

My gut feeling is that it’s fine, as it’s an item that stays on my body, rather like wearing a coat with deep pockets, or cargo trousers with pockets, and therefore not taking up space under a seat, or in an overhead locker.

Yes I guess bumbags may not be fashionable anymore, but I’m too ancient to fuss about that 🤣

OP posts:
Jaws2025 · 02/09/2025 09:58

I wear a small cross body bag just big enough for phone and passport - haven't been asked to remove it even on easyJet. I think a bumbag can be quite large though.

SummerEve · 02/09/2025 09:58

How much stuff are you intending on taking/ using during the flight? Surely a rucksack will cover it, unless it’s some mammoth journey.

sweetpickle2 · 02/09/2025 09:58

Not a bumbag, but I travelled with Virgin Airlines last year and was allowed a cabin case and and a rucksack/handbag. I took a large handbag with my laptop etc in and a uniqlo over body bag- I was made to put that into my handbag for check in. I just popped it in the top though and took it back out again afterwards.