Originally Posted by
oldpenny16
If another passenger picks up your gate checked bag and walks off with it, you are in big trouble especially if you are far back in the plane and have to wait for others to deplane before you get your chance.
Of the countless RJ flights where I've had to gate check my bag, there has never been an instance where all the pax didn't beat the gate checked luggage to the jetbridge. Now that people are trying to avoid the checked bag fees, it's takes a lot longer to get the gate checks unloaded and back to the waiting pax.