Checks for Oversized Luggage at the Checkpoint?
Mar 5, 2014, 3:36 pm
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Checks for Oversized Luggage at the Checkpoint?
I remember that for a brief period prior to the TSA, security checkpoints had devices to prevent oversized luggage from going through. My understanding was that at security, they did not enforce this type of thing.
This article http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2014...?emc=eta1&_r=0 claims that United plans to start enforcing this at the security checkpoint. I was wondering how this works. Can one still get past security if one does not listen to a United official? Is the TSA now going to start enforcing this? How does it work at airports where terminals are connected and one is flying on another airline?
This article http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2014...?emc=eta1&_r=0 claims that United plans to start enforcing this at the security checkpoint. I was wondering how this works. Can one still get past security if one does not listen to a United official? Is the TSA now going to start enforcing this? How does it work at airports where terminals are connected and one is flying on another airline?
Mar 5, 2014, 4:57 pm
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At some US airports, the airline or group of airlines control access of who gets into line/which line. It would be the airline/airline contractors at the front of such lines who would enforce things that the TSA shouldn't enforce -- such as airline's cabin baggage policy/practices.
Mar 6, 2014, 9:25 am
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Been traveling with a piece of cabin baggage lately. It's a pretty big bag, about the size of a 6 y/o child. TSA either asks me directly or comments under their breath. On each instance, a simple 'Don't worry about it" has quieted them.
Mar 6, 2014, 6:16 pm
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You can check the UA forum here at FT for a long thread on it already. The issue is not so much for the few who bring on oversized bags but UA will no longer allow musicians to bring valuable instruments such as a violin! Also charts or plans that fit in a tube will now be checked as most will be too long. And the new sizers are based on measurements of the bins on the smallest of the big jets as many slightly larget bags do fit on most planes but not a few, a literal one size fits all method.
The reality is that it has little to do with fairly allocating the overhead bins but everthing to do with increased revenue through checked bags.
The reality is that it has little to do with fairly allocating the overhead bins but everthing to do with increased revenue through checked bags.
Mar 6, 2014, 6:50 pm
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You can check the UA forum here at FT for a long thread on it already. The issue is not so much for the few who bring on oversized bags but UA will no longer allow musicians to bring valuable instruments such as a violin! Also charts or plans that fit in a tube will now be checked as most will be too long. And the new sizers are based on measurements of the bins on the smallest of the big jets as many slightly larget bags do fit on most planes but not a few, a literal one size fits all method.
The reality is that it has little to do with fairly allocating the overhead bins but everthing to do with increased revenue through checked bags.
The reality is that it has little to do with fairly allocating the overhead bins but everthing to do with increased revenue through checked bags.
Mar 6, 2014, 7:01 pm
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Mar 6, 2014, 11:05 pm
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Money is fungible; however, while they will put some of that money into IT, UA getting their IT up to par is far from certain.