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United Actually Enforcing Carry-on Size Limits
A major airline finally seems to be cracking down on passengers who board planes with carry-ons the size of dumpsters, or who try to game the system at the gate. United has begun enforcing its rules on the size of carry-on luggage, even turning back some passengers at security checkpoints and requiring them to return to the counter to do what they should have done in the first place. (www.usatoday.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Well, it is near frickin' time! In my 50 years of air travel, I have seen everything from polite people who are embarrassed to put a briefcase in the overhead bin, to boors who (seriously) put a hockey bag up there and smile about it. This enforcement is a positive step and I would applaud and congratulate ANY gate agent who carries it out.
Amen! I board my plane and then sit and watch passengers try to jam in luggage that clearly won't fit. I make it a point to never help ladies who bring on body bags and the bags are too big and too heavy. Check them like you are supposed to. I have enough trouble dragging around 40 pounds of luggage to the check it. I could never drag that luggage around through security and out to the gate. However to be fair, I am a 2 million miler on Delta so I never have to pay to check luggage.
Then you have the passengers who drag their luggage to the gate waiting for the airlines to announce free check in at the gate.
Then you have the passengers who drag their luggage to the gate waiting for the airlines to announce free check in at the gate.
If you can't sling it (into overhead) don't bring it.
Always amusing to watch someone try to stuff a 10lb load into a 5 lb space.
Always amusing to watch someone try to stuff a 10lb load into a 5 lb space.
LOL, they need to charge them double at the gate for non carry on size...
I don't fly as often as I did before I retired, but hooray for this action. How many times did I see huge bags stuffed into the bins and cabin attendents wrestle with them while the pax calmly sat on their duffs and were blissfuly unaware of the problems they caused!
I too am quite glad they are enforcing the rule. One flight I placed my laptop bag in the compartment, and some lug came along behind me and tried to cram what could only be described as a coffin for an animal on top of it. Then he had the nerve to be offended when I protested.
Create a template for carry-on's, adhere to the policy, and the rest must be checked!
Create a template for carry-on's, adhere to the policy, and the rest must be checked!
Most airlines already have a template or size rack at the gate but won't enforce it.
I remember a Dennis Miller rant years ago where he expressed his displeasure of standing behind someone for ten minutes while they tried to stuff a jet ski into an overhead compartment. That mental image comes back to me whenever I fly and watch the carry-on carnival.