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Old Jun 15, 2017, 12:08 pm
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Loren Pechtel
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Originally Posted by Kevin AA
Zhang did not pull out an empty water bottle. Zhang pulled out another bag from within the tennis bag (in order to make the tennis bag compliant). That is what took her to 3 carry-ons. While I wasn't there, I will guess that Zhang argued with the GA, one of the two took the racquets from the bag and then the GA said you now have 7 items. That's absolutely true -- carry-on baggage is not measured by weight but by count. Put the items back in the bag and 7 drops to 3. But that's still over by 1.
This makes a lot of sense. The answer to these things usually involves finding an explanation that doesn't involve total insanity on either side, but rather a tit-for-tat escalation.
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