Can you take mangoes on a flight from Hurghada, and does a mango box count as part of your carry-on allowance?
Based on 2 discussions with 3 participants · Last activity: 12 days ago
TL;DR
You can usually take mangoes on flights out of Hurghada, but they count toward your airline’s carry-on weight and piece allowance. A separate 2–5 kg mango box is often treated as an extra item unless it fits inside your allowed cabin bag.
What the community said
The most practical rule is to treat mangoes as part of your carry-on: if you bring them in a separate box, staff will usually count that as one cabin bag item, not a free extra. For 2–5 kg, you need to stay within your airline’s weight and piece limits.
12 days ago 2–5 kg carry-on
If you already have a standard cabin suitcase, it is safer to pack the mangoes inside it rather than carry a separate fruit box. On Aeroflot, a separate mango box may be treated as a second carry-on item even if it weighs only about 3 kg.
12 days ago Aeroflot, about 3 kg
From travelers’ experience on flights from Egypt, people often carried mangoes on AlMasria and Red Sea without problems, but the main issue was still the baggage format: fruit in a separate box is more likely to be questioned than fruit packed inside your permitted bag.
12 days ago AlMasria, Red Sea