Originally Posted by
carlosdca
For me, it is pretty clear. I have been flying American for many many years and I have come to know the sizer very well. We all have seen it.
We also know, since the begining of the times, that the only way the agents have to check a carry-on bag is WITH the sizer.
AA.com language, tape measures, the "it fits in the overhead bin!" arguments have never worked and they will never work.
So the "sizer" trumps everything else, that is VERY CONSISTENT, in my mind. I've learned to deal with that.
The airline contracts with, and marketed representations to, the customers and/or the governmental authorities trumps the "sizers". When the sizers "trump" and do so in violation of the indicated type of contracts and marketed representations, there is inconsistency.
I've flown AA well over a million miles in the most recent ten year period. I can't recall a single time in the past decade where my cabin bags have been placed in a sizer airside or even at the security screening checkpoint. Airlines in the US have been anything but very consistent in system wide compliance with the cabin bag rules formally applicable to a given customer and the airline, and the inconsistency is there with AA too.