Originally Posted by
flyingnosh
I despise bin hogs, but the reality is that they don't cause a lot of trouble on my flights. GAs encourage people to check bags for free, and enough of them do. It doesn't happen too often that a bag needs to be brought up front and checked at the end of the boarding process.
Its not too common to have bags taken off to be checked, but it is extremely common to have a GA standing at the boarding door and forcing the last 10-15 people to gate check their bags.
I'd say the average number of gate checked bags is about 10 these days. And no doubt it slows down the process and makes things harder on everyone.