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Gran Canaria is part of Spain, and Spain is in the EU. German customs still treats your flight home from the Canaries like one from Turkey. Whether you can pack alcohol in checked luggage is quick to answer. How much of it stays duty-free comes down to details like that one, and you won't find...
Tobias Weßling
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Flying for Christmas rarely means just socks in your bag. Christmas gifts in hand luggage are allowed, but a wrapped box can quickly get unwrapped at security.
Miriam Kohl
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A wedding ring in the toiletry bag, a watch in the suitcase's side pocket, and some policy somewhere will cover it. That's the assumption, anyway. Look into jewelry insurance for travel and it falls apart fast: almost every policy pays far less than people expect. Some pay nothing.
Miriam Kohl
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Charging cable carry-on packing is no problem in 2026, and neither is a phone charger carry-on setup or any other travel electronics. That part's settled, only power banks have their own watt-hour limits, we've got a separate post on power bank watt-hour limits for that. What nobody tells you is...
Lena Brandt
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One wheel drags, the telescopic handle sits crooked. Before you book a suitcase repair or just order a replacement, you really only need one number: what the fix costs against what a comparable new case costs today.
Lena Brandt
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"Fishing rod carry on" is one of those questions anglers keep arguing about. The answer is boring: almost always no. Even a short travel rod gets pulled at screening, because nobody at the checkpoint reaches for a tape measure.
Lena Brandt
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Your frequent flyer baggage allowance in the Miles & More programme doesn't track what you paid. It tracks your tier. Frequent Traveller, Senator, HON Circle: each one adds a different amount of checked baggage. And one fare name wipes the whole bonus out.
Lena Brandt
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Two kilos over the limit can cost up to 70 euros depending on the airline, according to finanzen.net. So every travel season, somebody goes looking for a luggage scale app. The awkward answer first: your phone can't weigh a suitcase. It can guess at one, and honestly that's enough more often than...
Miriam Kohl
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Flying while pregnant rarely falls apart because of the bump. It falls apart because of paperwork. What decides things at check-in is your week of pregnancy and whether the certificate is in your carry-on. The medical side belongs to AOK and your doctor. This is the baggage half.
Tobias Weßling
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Around 914,000 passengers used reduced-mobility services at German airports in the first half of 2023, says the ADV airport association. Plenty of travellers still treat airport wheelchair assistance as a favour from the airline. It isn't.
Miriam Kohl
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A sealed duty free bag looks like a guarantee. It isn't, at least not everywhere. Carry duty free alcohol in hand luggage across a connecting flight and you can lose the bottle at the second security checkpoint, even though the shop sealed everything correctly at the till.
Lena Brandt
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A wedge of hard cheese from your holiday sails through security. The tub of cream cheese beside it goes in the bin before the scanner. Both are food in hand luggage, both look equally harmless, and the ingredient list has nothing to do with it. Consistency decides.
Lena Brandt
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