Air France

I’m pretty sure they allow two items and you seem to have three. So you need to figure out how to consolidate down to two.

As to how strict they are this is their budget airline carrier so they could be strict. But the truth is no matter what anyone on here says if your luggage is oversize and they say no you’re out of luck. What’s happened to any of us in the past is not relevant.

I agree with Carol. It’s basically “Dependo” on whole bunch of stuff. If you are not within the stated limits you take your chances no matter what others say.

Thanks Carol and Margie, my husband sez "stop worrying, check the Rick Steves' luggage". Perhaps he's right...this time!

Assume that the dimensions they mention are what you allowed to bring.

I would not call Hop a budget airline, it is a subsidiary of Air France that operate regional flights. And do so with smaller planes, so the space available will be limited.

(Although my suggestion would be to take the train from Paris to Biarritz (unless this is a connecting flight), it's 4 hours by direct TGV.)

In my experience, Air France/Hop are not strict about dimensions. I always travel with a carry-on that is 2 inches too wide (40 cm vs 35) and it has never been an issue even in recent occurrences.

Here, it is theoretically 3 inches too large in two dimensions: if it is full, it will be obvious, but if not, it probably does not matter. I would chance it.

Badger, my original plan was to spend the night in Paris and take the train the next day. However, a very vivid memory of a transit strike in Paris clouded my judgment at decision time. It looks very promising that both of our carryon's will hold everything we would have put in our day pack and still maintain size and weight. Still a work in progress.

I was on two different Air France flights in the last 48 hours - an Airbus 320 and a 777-300. Individuals boarded the aircrafts with multiple bags - one with three and another with four. It did not appear that they were traveling with anyone else. My travel partner and I each had a single back pack. I did not encounter or observe staff questioning bags.

However different staff, location, aircraft and in your case carrier (HOP) may scrutinize and strictly enforce allowances. Adhering to the guidelines makes for stress free situations.

They did a gate check of our RS carryon ( no charge to us). Getting to our connecting flight was an another adventure, glad we had 4+ hour layovers on a self connecting flight! Happily getting over jet lag in Saint Jean de Luz!!
Thanks again for all your help.