News and notes from around the interweb:
- This is one of the two most-complained about things on airline twitter, along with damaged checked bags.
This is why it happens: airlines want to depart on-time, and gate checking bags at the last minute risks that, so they start doing it early. Even if they waited for cabin crew to tell the gate bins are full, there’d be passengers already on the jetbridge needing to return with their bags (and despite best intentions, flight attendants and gate agents get too busy to communicate that well). Gate agents start early, so they don’t get yelled at over a late departure.
@united I was just told I had to gate check my non roller bag because the bins on flight UA300 "are totally full." This is right above my seat. Why does your staff lie to passengers? pic.twitter.com/jdo9KHTbWM
— Eric Werwa (@werface) October 20, 2024
- They say you’re allowed one carrion.
A random chicken was spotted at DCA at 8 am this morning pic.twitter.com/wUf2Y3F9My
— Washingtonian Problems (@WashProbs) October 20, 2024
- Why the U.S. Is Reviving an Airfield Used in the WWII Atomic Bombings
- Just another day in Dublin. (Ok, not really, this plane landed when everything else was cancelling or diverting.)
Live from the bar in Terminal 1 at @DublinAirport #StormAshley pic.twitter.com/AdklJpZC4L
— DublinWeather (@WeatherofDublin) October 20, 2024
- Citi 30% transfer bonus to Virgin Atlantic through November 16. I would not do this speculatively. Citi also has a 20% transfer bonus to Wyndham to November 16.. most of you, please don’t. The use cases aren’t nonexistent but extremely limited.
- The first reaction of many is ‘she didn’t age’.
Boy grows up to be air steward for China Eastern Airlines and has reunion with stewardess he met on a flight of the same airline 20 years ago
byu/theresjustme inDamnthatsinteresting
The airlines forbid the 50-pound carry-on suitcases because they wised-up .
The carry-on chicken was brought onboard by Brandon’s illegals while on his way to vote .
I traveled a few times this month domestically within Canada. Checked luggage every time. It’s worth $50 and a 30 minute wait to avoid the overhead bin Hunger Games.
Lying to customers is what airlines do and United is at the top of it’s game when it comes to that.
The bird was waiting to meet up with the family at Chick-fil-A.
Overhead bin storage is simply awful. I check every bag except a tiny carry-on. My flights are non-stop so, at least until today, I’ve never suffered a lost bag.
With computers and bar codes lost baggage will become less of a problem. Check the darn thing and help the airlines load / unload faster. Of course, they could use the back door too . . . but I digress.
The airlines will eventually deal with this by charging for both checked and carry-on bags, with a premium for the latter.
Learn to pack light.
but gate checking bags are a good thing , usually and in most cases its free. and you don’t have to pay the $40-50 fee when you check in. so in directly it can be a good thing.
Can confirm. I always have a backpack and a laptop so I don’t get hassled but the people in front of me in line had to gate check. Flight to ORD had plenty of room left.
It’s social engineering pure and simple. It’s the first line of push back on people oversizing their carry ons. And most definitely the skies are full of flying moms with 3 toddlers and one massive carry on with the other arm full of shopping bags.
If I have to bring a carry-on, it’s always a duffel bag stuffed with jackets, clothes, pillows and the like. You want to gate check it for free? Fine. You want to crush it in the overhead bin? Do your worst!
Gary- I call fowl- it’s only carrion if the chicken tries to cross the road, and gets run over.
Alert, were you dropped.on your head at birth?
If a passenger has carry-on that exceeds the limits then off course it will be ticketed.
That’s why it’s always just a mid-sized backpack for me, nowadays. I’ve had one too many bags lost by airlines to check anymore, and I can’t stand waiting to get a gate-checked bag back after a flight. I travel for months at a time, and everything I need fits in the backpack. I’ve carried it on to every flight– even the tiny, domestic European flights– and I can always squeeze it into the overhead and they never approach me at the gate with a gate check tag.