Bag limitations
During busy travel seasons, limitations on checked bags and boxes apply to some destinations.
Seasonal and year-round limitations for checked bags have been updated as of May 22, 2023.
What you can bring
When there are bag limitations you can only bring:
Checked bags
Flagship® First
3 bags
Domestic First
2 bags
Business
2 bags
Premium Economy
2 bags
Main Cabin
2 bags
Additional items
Unless there are other restrictions, you can also bring:
- 1 carry-on item
- 1 personal item
You can also travel with:
- Sports equipment (additional charges may apply)
- Assistive devices for customers with disabilities
- Bags weighing 51 - 70 lbs. (23.1 - 32 kgs) for an applicable charge
What you can’t bring
When traveling to select destinations with bag limitations, you can't travel with:
- Overweight items (more than 70lb / 32kgs)
- Oversized items
- Excess bags (only 2 checked bags* allowed)
- Boxes**
*3 checked bags allowed seasonally to Havana, Cuba
**A “box” is any container that isn’t normally used for transporting items for air travel; this includes plastic tubs, containers and coolers. For travel to / from Mexico on / after May 3, 2023, we do not accept boxes over 80 in / 203 cm to / from locations that allow boxes.
Seasonal limitations
March 14, 2023 – November 15, 2023
Oversize, overweight and excess bag limitations apply for select cities. You can only check 3 bags to these destinations:
Havana, Cuba (HAV)
May 28, 2023 – August 22, 2023
Oversize, overweight and excess bag limitations apply for select cities. You can only check 2 bags to these destinations:
- Comayagua, Honduras (XPL)
- Managua, Nicaragua (MGA)
- Roatan, Honduras (RTB)
- San Pedro Sula, Honduras (SAP)
- San Salvador, El Salvador (SAL)
Morelia (MLM)
Zacatecas (ZCL)
July 1, 2023 – September 19, 2023
Oversize, overweight and excess bag limitations apply for select cities. You can only check 2 bags to these destinations:
Grenada, Grenada (GND)
November 16, 2023 – January 9, 2024
Oversize, overweight and excess bag limitations apply for select cities. You can only check 2 bags to these destinations:
- Dominica, Dominica (DOM)
- Grenada, Grenada (GND)
- Havana, Cuba (HAV)
- Kingston, Jamaica (KIN)
- Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic (SDQ)
- Santiago, Dominican Republic (STI)
- St. Vincent (SVD)
- Comayagua, Honduras (XPL)
- Managua, Nicaragua (MGA)
- Roatan, Honduras (RTB)
- San Pedro Sula, Honduras (SAP)
- San Salvador, El Salvador (SAL)
- Aguascalientes (AGU)
- Chihuahua (CUU)
- Hermosillo (HMO)
- Leon (BJX)
- Morelia (MLM)
- San Luis Potosi (SLP)
- Torreon (TRC)
- Zacatecas (ZCL)
- Cali, Colombia (CLO)
- Georgetown, Guyana (GEO)
Year-round limitations
Oversize, overweight and excess bag limitations apply for select cities. You can only check 2 bags to these destinations:
Cuba
- Camaguey (CMW)
- Holguin (HOG
- Santiago (SCU)
- Santa Clara (SNU)
- Varadero (VRA)
Port au Prince, Haiti (PAP)
There is a permanent embargo on boxes as well as excess, oversize and overweight bags.
- Guayaquil, Ecuador (GYE)
- Quito, Ecuador (UIO)
- Lima, Peru (LIM)