Originally Posted by
COEWRFA
A feel a sizing box should be at the bottom of every jet way along with a agent. Every roller board should be checked for size and width and if it doesn't fit you must pay to check it or you can't board. This will stop people from over packing and thinking ahead of time that if they have to sit on there bag to close it, you have to pay for it or remove some stuff.
I can't wait till the FAA finally passes some type of actual law or set in stone regulation when it comes to carry on bags. One day the bins are just going to collapse.
The solution will be even simpler: They will start charging for carry ons.
As for the sizing box, I agree with you except that one sizing box will not be useful since there is such a wild range of sizes of overhead compartments.
An overhead compartment on an ERJ-145 or CRJ-200 is so tiny, it barely can hold a backpack. On a big mainline jet such as a 777, virtually any checked bag could fit.
Last spring, I flew AF JFK-CDG and my 22" rollaboard was selected for inspection in the sizing box. To my considerable dismay, it didn't fit. So I just took out a leather jacket and some socks and put them in my pockets (I'm allowed to wear my jacket on the plane obviously). Then the bag barely fit in the box.
We were flying a 777 and when I got to my seat, I put my jacket and socks back in the bag and the overhead bin was so huge, that my rollaboard was engulfed in it and I couldn't even see it without standing on my tippy toes...