Originally Posted by
emcampbe
A rule saying if a bag only fits sideways, it must be checked sounds good and common sense enough on paper. But in the real world, it just doesn't work. For example, 767 bins are smaller than others, and many compliant bags only fit sideways. And the bins are different sizes in different aircraft, and even sometimes in different parts of the same aircraft. What happens if you're connecting from a 320 to a 767? Every leg of a trip could have different allowances. And what happens in a last-minute aircraft change? Would be a complete mess in practice.
Not totally sure why we are what if'ing this to death, because they wont do any of it anyway. Allowances don't change, its 22 in as sizer indicates. HOWEVER the only reason to really enforce the 22 in rule is IF the bag wont fit length wise. For planes that have larger bins you can go a little bigger. For the reportedly smaller 767 (which makes up very little of the domestic flights anyway) I guess they can go sideways, or diagonal. or whatever else you fruitcakes want to do.
All I know is my Airboss is a proven winner.