{"id":50024,"date":"2015-05-21T20:06:47","date_gmt":"2015-05-21T12:06:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=50024"},"modified":"2015-05-21T20:06:47","modified_gmt":"2015-05-21T12:06:47","slug":"air-canada-about-to-start-checking-to-ensure-carry-on-bags-meet-regulations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/05\/21\/air-canada-about-to-start-checking-to-ensure-carry-on-bags-meet-regulations\/","title":{"rendered":"Air Canada about to start checking to ensure carry on bags meet regulations"},"content":{"rendered":"
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TORONTO — With the busy summer travel season set to take flight, Air Canada is about to begin clamping down on carry-on baggage to ensure it meets regulations.<\/p>\n

Starting next Monday at Toronto’s Pearson International Airport, airline staff will be stationed at both check-in and security checkpoints to ensure carry-on bags meet size and weight requirements.<\/p>\n

Bags that meet the airline’s carry-on dimensions will receive a red tag, which the airline says will help reduce wait times at security and “help avoid flight delays caused by larger bags being checked at the gate.”<\/p>\n

Air Canada says carry-on bags which exceed the regulations will need to be checked and “standard fees will apply.”<\/p>\n

The airline says if passengers get to security and need to check a bag that exceeds size limits, they will receive a special card to get quickly back to a check-in agent, and then on to the departure gate.<\/p>\n

Transport Canada rules allow passengers to carry on two unchecked items.<\/p>\n

Air Canada specifies that a personal item can include a backpack, briefcase or laptop computer measuring up to 16 by 33 by 43 centimetres and a standard item such as a suitcase measuring up to 23 by 40 by 55 centimetres including wheels and handles.<\/p>\n

Those travelling with an infant on their lap can carry on an additional standard article.<\/p>\n

The airline began charging a $25 checked-bag fee last fall on its lowest-class domestic flights and on flights to and from the Caribbean and Mexico. Air Canada has charged for a traveller’s first checked bag on U.S.-Canada transborder routes since 2011.<\/p>\n

The airline says the tagging program will expand progressively to other airports across the country through June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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