AFTER receiving the good news on Christmas Eve that his girlfriend Nora Parisi (Sofia Carson) is pregnant, Ethan Kopek (Taron Egerton) begins to feel the pressure of becoming a father while holding a stagnating position as a Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officer at the Los Angeles International Airport (LAX).
Interpreting Nora’s encouragement for him to retry entering the police academy the wrong way, Ethan convinces his supervisor to transfer him upwards from the metal detector scanning lane to the baggage-scanning lane, which is the premise of Carry-On.
This throws a wrench into an unnamed traveller’s (Jason Bateman) plans, as he and his cohorts are forced to change their plan to get Ethan to allow a dangerous carry-on baggage to pass inspection and onto a plane.
