So in my experience of flying with small children mostly during the holidays and summer:Airlines must have done the math and figured out that they make lots of money in baggage fees, and that offsets the costs (or moves them to airports/TSA) of delays due to people cramming oinboard the biggest bags they can get away with. I have yet to take a flight where the gate agents didnt ask people to gate check. I offered to gate check early once, and they turned me down, so when they asked for volunteers later I scoffed, but probably they just want to discourage that big loophole. Though the boarding delays have to cost something.
Maybe they should charge fees for carryons bigger than underseat size that cost more than checked bags ($30 per rollerboard carryon, vs $25 checked)?
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Date: 2013-05-20 01:08 am (UTC)Maybe they should charge fees for carryons bigger than underseat size that cost more than checked bags ($30 per rollerboard carryon, vs $25 checked)?