Originally Posted by
DrDot
In my experience Airtran isn't very uptight about carry ons, so take your purse and a small carry on.
I would say Boston would be the exception to this, in different situations, they've made me gate check an empty laptop bag and counted an umbrella as a carry-on so I couldn't bring on my carry-on bag (got on the plane and found out the flight was less than half full).