Originally Posted by
inyourvillages
Gonna keep happening as long as 1) airlines charge to check bags and 2) gate staff doesn't enforce the limits.
imho, it's not the so much the gate staff but the moat dragons at security as they are the ones who should be a) checking the number of items* and b) eye-balling the size of the carry-on. it's not rocket science to see the size difference between a 21" and a 26" roll-aboard. at ua-sfo, the moat dragons are vicious
*granted the pax could be sly and have the 3rd item already inside a larger one but if that's the case, in there it should stay