Up to 70lbs each and total dimensions W+L+D<=62 in. Garment bags count as a second piece.

Make sure that:

• Your baggage is securely closed - where possible locked
• Loose straps or other items are not hanging from the bag - they may get caught in the baggage system
• Bags with two handles - fasten them together, this will ensure that neither gets caught up in the baggage system
• You do not pack medication, important documents, valuable items or cash in your checked baggage.
• You label each bag on the inside with your name and full destination address and on the outside with your name and destination city.
• You remove all old destination labels from previous trips, old labels may delay your baggage
• You do not carry unidentified items on behalf of other people.

You are allowed one piece of carry-on baggage that has to be up to 13lbs and with external dimensions of W+L+D<=46 in.

British Airways recommend passengers include important documents, cash, valuables, medication and portable computers (laptops)* in their cabin baggage.

They recommend passengers do not carry items which are considered a security risk in their cabin baggage (e.g. replica weapons, knives or similar items). British Airways will not accept liability for items removed by airport security staff.

-Ping
2/26/99 at 8:13 PM

I have found that two things cause wrinkles in garments: heavy things inside suitcases (shoes, hairdriers) and having too much in the suitcase to begin with.

Do this: Open your empty suitcase and look at the inside bottowm. If the bag rolls (and I encourage you to have a bag that rolls) often the bars are on the inside of the suitcase. This is the place to store your shoes, socks, underwear and t-shirts. You can easily pack these things around the bars, and wrinkles are no so important.

Now comes the important part: Many bags come with a hardplastic, flat divider. If yours does not, take a piece of cardboard (the side of a box, etc), and cut it so that it just fits inside the suitcase, on top of the socks and under wear.

Now (important part #2). Fold (or roll) your sweater, shirts and pants, and gorup them into two or three piles (as they would fit into the suitcase). Now take a medium-sized trash sack, and places the clothes into the sack, folding under the extra top half of the sack. Place them to the side.

Now (important part 3): Take your concert clothes, and place a dry cleaners plastic bag over the outfit (you can use the trash sack for this again if you want). Lay the jacket across the inside of the suicase, with the bottom of the jacket on the plastic/cardboard divider and the top of the jacket on the open lid side of the suitcase. Make sure that the arms are nicely folded in, and not squished on the sides.

Lay the plastic bags of shirts and pants in the suitcase, on top of the jacket bottom. Now "Curl" the rest of the concert clothes back over the plastic sacks, taking out the hanger (or curling the hook under). Your concert clothes should be like a "C", wrapped in plastic, and wrapped around the plastic. Because the plastic will slide on the plastic without bunching up, wrinkles don't occur.

Best of all, once you get to your hotel stop, you lift out the plastic bags, hang up your concert clothes in one piece, and can lift up on the cardboard easily to get to shoes, etc., that which you need easily. If you remember to pack socks on the left or underwear on the right, you can very easily get to what you need, even when all of the bags are still in the suitcase.

I hope this helps - leave that garment bag at home!

Maury