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Nick Miller and Warren Murray

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

Hand pushing large bag into overhead compartment
Will extra luggage fees discourage shoving massive bags into the overhead compartments, or is it all a massive gouge? Photograph: aquaArts studio/Getty Images

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-price airlines to gouge passengers?

Two well-travelled Guardian staffers battle it out.

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