EasyJet passengers say they’re being ‘set up to fail’ by new hand luggage trial

EasyJet has been trialling a new style of hand luggage sizers (Picture: Getty Images)

EasyJet passengers are divided over a new method for checking hand luggage dimensions at the boarding gate.

A passenger flying from London Gatwick claimed their cabin bag ‘fit perfectly’ in the airline’s standard sizing cage.

But when they arrived at the gate, staff ‘suddenly switched’ to a handheld sizer which ‘almost guarantees’ that bags won’t slide in cleanly.

‘It honestly felt like passengers were being set up to fail,’ the passenger wrote anonymously in a post on Facebook.

‘Especially since this sizer only appeared at the gate after [EasyJet’s] ...