Travel guru issues urgent warning to anyone with flights booked in coming months

Anyone with a flight booked in the coming months could be in for a "nasty shock" when they arrive at the airport, according to a travel expert.

Alex runs the Mallorca Under The Sun YouTube channel and website, where she shares holiday news, travel guides, and important warnings for tourists.

She said she had another "warning" to issue in her latest YouTube video, with some holidaymakers having already been slapped with unexpected fines. She said anyone "travelling light" on a low-cost airline for a "long weekend" in Mallorca needs to be careful, although her advice applies to anyone getting on a plane in the coming months.

She said: "As we move on into winter, you may think that they [low-cost airlines] may not place so much importance on luggage sizing, and indeed on what you carry onto the planes as well."

Alex emphasised this is certainly "not the case". She continued by sharing feedback from social media: "I'm reading on a lot of Facebook groups - particularly in regional airports across the UK, in fact all across Europe as well - that the airlines really are double-checking and triple-checking to make sure that the size of bags you take onto the plane do not outmeasure the baggage sizes they have in place."

Alex revealed that these budget airlines are not just checking luggage sizes, but also imposing charges on tourists. She said: "I've seen flight passengers being charged anything from €55 (£46) to €90 (£75), to then have their hand luggage checked-in onto a flight."

Concluding her cautionary advice, Alex added: "So if you are travelling this winter, just Google 'baggage rules easyJet', 'baggage rules Ryanair', whichever airline you're travelling with, to find out the exact dimensions of the bags that you are