Originally Posted by
GUWonder
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.
It's all a matter of perceptions.
It is true that for the most part the 45" inch rule, neither any other rule have been strictly enforced.
But when AA or contracted agents are out controlling carry on bags, they invariably use the sizer. I don't care if it is right or wrong.
For practical matters, at the gate, the sizer trumps anything else. As simple as that.
Now, go one discussing for 5 more pages, how inconsistent the rules are and how much the Sizer sucks. Life is too short. I have a compliant bag (with the 45 inches rule AND with the Sizer, I tried it yesterday). The End
