Guides
Three budget airlines, three rulebooks, and since last autumn one odd coincidence: Ryanair and Wizz Air now land on exactly the same free small-bag size, even though they got there from opposite directions. Ryanair made its bag bigger. Wizz Air made theirs smaller. If you want to know what hand...
Tobias Weßling
News
Europe's airlines rewrite their route networks on 25 October 2026, and for a few thousand passengers that means new destinations, cancelled flights, or both in the same week. The winter flight schedule 2026/2027 takes effect that day, as Baden-Airpark confirms, and runs until 27 March 2027....
Lena Brandt
Guides
A colleague of mine booked a flight from London to Antalya with Turkish Airlines last summer. The ticket was around $210, which looked like a steal. Then he got to the check-in counter. No checked baggage included. His 18-kg suitcase cost an extra $95 on the spot. That "cheap" flight suddenly...
Miriam Kohl
News
One thing first, because plenty of headlines get it backwards: the Ryanair hand luggage fine from Spain did not grow in 2026. No fresh penalty, no court confirming it, no bigger number. It's the same €179 million from November 2024, and it's still unresolved.
Miriam Kohl
Community
I'm not kidding. The TSA officially declared in 2023 that peanut butter counts as a liquid and will get confiscated if the jar is over 3.4 ounces. Their actual tweet? "You may not be nuts about it, but TSA considers your PB a liquid." That's real. That happened.
Tobias Weßling
News
Frankfurt Airport handled 221,000 passengers on 5 October 2025. Second-busiest single day of the entire year, according to Fraport. No public holiday, no strike. Just three federal states starting their school break on the same morning.
Tobias Weßling
Guides
A colleague booked a return flight to Warsaw on Wizz Air. 38 euros total. Bargain. She packed her usual trolley, showed up at the gate, and walked straight into a €65 fee for an oversized bag. The flight itself cost €19 one way. The bag penalty was more than three times that.
Miriam Kohl
Tips
Quick answer: Yes, you can bring deodorant in your carry-on. Sprays, roll-ons, and creams need to be in containers of 100 ml (3.4 oz) or less, packed inside your clear 1-liter liquids bag. Solid deodorant sticks have zero restrictions and can go straight into your bag with no size limit. The...
Lena Brandt
My friend Lena waited 38 minutes at the baggage carousel in Split. I was already sitting at the harbor with my first coffee. The difference? She'd checked a 23-kilo suitcase. I had everything in a carry-on backpack. Ten clothing items for 14 days in Croatia.
Tobias Weßling
Guides
39% of travelers forget something when they pack. Sunglasses, sunscreen, charging cables. Sounds like no big deal, right? Except a Swoodoo survey found that 18% of those people then spend over 30 euros replacing items at tourist prices. That SPF 50 at the beach kiosk in Mallorca? Easily triple...
Tobias Weßling
News
You might have seen the scary version: the EU is reforming air passenger rights, and it's all getting worse. No payout until four or six hours of delay? That threat hung around for a long time. It didn't happen. The EU air passenger rights reform 2026 is done and dusted politically, but it landed...
Tobias Weßling
In July 2025 I put a suitcase on the belt in Frankfurt for the last time. Twelve flights later, one year gone, six countries, and still the same cabin trolley.
Miriam Kohl
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