Keep calm and carry on: two travellers weigh in on Jetstar’s new overhead locker baggage fees

Is the budget airline’s plans to charge for carry-on bag storage a tax on bad behaviour, or just plain old price gouging? Two Guardian staffers check in In significant news for budget travellers, Jetstar will charge its passengers up to $52 to put carry-on baggage in the overhead locker. Will the new rules finally bring an end to the entitled carry-on culture, where people hold up the airline just to jam their oversized suitcase into the overhead locker? Or is it just another way for cut-pric...

By Nick Miller and Warren Murray

Australian airline to charge fee for carry-on bags in overhead lockers

Jetstar plans to levy fee from February next year

By Maroosha Muzaffar

Jetstar’s new overhead baggage rules explained: When they start and what you'll pay

The budget airline will dump its carry-on weight limit in favour of a size-based carry-on baggage model.

Jetstar to charge for carry-on bags in overhead lockers

Jetstar Australia will start charging passengers for the use of overhead luggage bins from February next year.

Australia's Jetstar to charge for carry-on bags in overhead lockers next year

Jetstar, the budget arm of Australia's national carrier Qantas, will require passengers who want to store carry-on bags in overhead ​lockers to pay extra from February next year, as the airline overhauls its cabin baggage ‌policy.