Originally Posted by captaink

Does frontier tag gate checks through to final destination and return them on the belt, or are they picked up at the jetbridge? If they just come back to the jetbridge, I don't see a problem. After all, the passenger did most of the bag toting, and it's not like you can get a bag much larger than carryon size through security (the tsa doesn't enforce size rules, but the portal on the xray scanner does )

It seems that most people who check bags do so because they have either 3+ ounces of liquids or more stuff than can fit in a personal item+carryon-size bag. Being able to gate check for free won't save those people any bag fees.