Originally Posted by
uoficowboy
They forced me to gate check my bag in SEA because, though it fit into the bag checker thing, I had to press on it with fairly low force to make it go all the way in, due to my roller's wheels not being flush with the back of the bag (the rest of the bag easily dropped in with gravity, as I as not at all over packed). Nobody bothered me about it on the way back (even though I had picked up a few things and hadn't packed as well, so it was bulging significantly more). It fit in the overhead compartments without any problems.
The rule is that it has to fit in the sizer, not the bin. Enforcement is spotty, but if it doesn't actually fit in the bin - including the wheels - then it is too big. Annoying, perhaps, but that's the rule.
Originally Posted by
uoficowboy
No complementary movies. On SEA - IAH, IAH - MCO, and MCO - IAH you could pay for the directtv access (I could be remembering wrong and one of those flights may not have had directtv). On IAH - SEA they played a movie on the fold down screens and gave out headphones for free to apologize for the 100 minute delay - but the headphones they gave me were broken (easy fix) and my chair couldn't even get the right channel (hard fix).
Completely normal. CO is moving to the DirecTV model for IFE on the domestic fleet.
Originally Posted by
uoficowboy
edit: forgot to mention one last thing: on IAH - MCO the flight was about half empty, but the FAs were not letting anybody change seats to empty seats. So there were entire bulkhead rows sitting empty.
The bulkhead rows are paid upgrades for extra legroom if you are a non-elite. The FAs were in the right to deny access.
I'm not saying you have to like the rules, but each of the situations described above was by the book, so to speak.