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Old Oct 25, 2011 | 6:30 pm
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Originally Posted by RichardInSF
I understand the official rules, they have been around for ages. That's not what I was asking about.

Hong Kong has always been overly restrictive on carry-on bags unless your airline gave you a special orange tag (which agents ALWAYS tore off entering security). If you had that tag, no questions were asked. If you didn't, the sizer was used very aggressively.

My question is whether that enforcement system has gone away or not.
No wonder the UA 1K checkin counter always gave me some kind of "carry-on" tags. :-)
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