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Passengers will struggle to obtain the cheapest advertised cabin bag prices for three major budget airlines, new research has found. Consumer group Which? Analysed nearly 1,500 cabin bag prices for easyJet, Ryanair and Wizz Air across eight different routes per airline to popular destinations.

It also looked at prices spread out between peak and off-peak dates. According to easyJet it offers cabin bags from as low as £5.99, but Which? could not find a bag that cheap on the 520 flights it checked.

The cheapest price Which? found was £23.49, and the average price was £30 – about five times more expensive than the lowest price claimed. When it challenged the airline to send an example of any flight where you could take a standard cabin bag for £5.99, easyJet declined to d

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