Airline spec · verified 2026-07-02

Turkish Airlines carry-on & personal item size limits

Every number below was checked against Turkish Airlines's official pages on 2026-07-02, with links to the source.

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Sizer enforcement: medium editorial view, not airline data
Both cabin bag and personal item carry weight limits

What is worth knowing about Turkish Airlines

Turkish gives the personal item a weight limit of its own — 4 kg, the tightest under-seat allowance on this site — on top of the 8 kg on its 55 x 40 x 23 cm cabin bag. Both numbers are enforced, which turns a heavy laptop bag into a real risk rather than a theoretical one, and it is the combination rather than either figure that catches people. On US routes the hold switches to a piece concept: one or two pieces of 23 kg by route, each inside 158 cm total.

Two limits Turkish Airlines does not set

The sizes above are the ones Turkish Airlines publishes. These are not, and they do not change when you switch carriers: liquids in the cabin — at a US checkpoint every liquid, aerosol, gel, cream and paste must be 3.4 oz (100 ml) or less and fit one quart-sized bag (TSA — Liquids, Aerosols and Gels Rule); and power banks and spare lithium batteries, which must be carried in the cabin only, never in a checked bag, with an ordinary rechargeable cell capped at 100 watt-hours (FAA PackSafe — Lithium Batteries). The FAA states that airlines may set stricter watt-hour and quantity limits than its own, so Turkish Airlines can be tighter than this and never looser.

Item by item, the answers are on our can you bring it on a plane pages.