Baggage allowances and fees

Are you travelling with Brussels Airlines?

Select your route to find out exactly how much checked-in baggage and hand baggage you can take on your Brussels Airlines flights and our fees for excess baggage.

Are you travelling with a partner airline?

Are you travelling on a flight operated by one of our codeshare partners? Then you may be subject to their baggage rules and regulations. Please check the baggage information on your ticket or the website of our partner airline for more information.

For tickets that include flights with other airlines than Brussels Airlines the Most Significant Carrier Rule applies, except for hand baggage. For hand baggage, the hand baggage policy of the operating carrier will be applied.

Most Significant carrier rule

For tickets including flights with other airlines than Brussels Airlines the Most Significant Carrier rule applies according to the IATA resolution 302, effective as from April 2011. 
As a general rule, the free baggage allowances apply when Brussels Airlines operates the geographically longest or most significant stretch of the journey. If the longest leg or the most significant stretch of the journey is operated by another airlines, its baggage allowance rules may apply on Brussels Airlines flights or on codeshared flights. The applicable free baggage allowance is mentioned on your electronic ticket.

Exception for flights to, from and across the USA and Canada.
Under the consumer protection law by the US Department of Transportation and the Decision issued by the Canadian Transport Authority (CTA) that apply to all flights to, from and across the USA and Canada following baggage conditions apply:

• Consistency of baggage rules: same free baggage allowance, excess baggage charges and hand baggage regulations are to be applied throughout the journey
• The applicable baggage rules are usually the ones set by the airline listed first on the ticket
• Any airlines listed as first carrier on a ticket can chose freely to transfer the baggage rules to any other airline in the itinerary (MSC).