Thanks ACFly. I'm interested that there was no mention of one carry-on. I checked both United and Continental and neither of them mention a limit of one either. They refer us to the tsa.gov page which doesn't say anything except we must do whatever the flight attendants say (the emergency rules talking about that and the other restrictions haven't shown up at the TSA website, they are just floating around the internet and being quoted as fact but with nothing to back that up.)
I'm seriously thinking of giving up on booking through AC (in order to use up SSWUs and book through Continental or United in order to deal with 'crossing' the border here at my home airport rather than figuring out how much time I need for a connection at YYZ (if I want to go on a bigger plane) or YYC.
I just checked the CATSA site to see what rules they have in place and found this:
To make the screening process more efficient, a limit of one carry-on bag per passenger will be strictly enforced during this period; this does not include personal items such as small purses, cameras and strollers.
http://www.catsa-acsta.gc.ca/Page.as...esures&lang=en
No mention of personal item only, no mention of all bags with wheels having to be checked.
Seems to me AC might be floating a trial balloon during this time in order to see if they can retrain the self-loading cargo to travel lighter.