Originally Posted by GrahamClarke

I was on an AA flight in the US earlier this year where a similar thing happened to an economy passenger. She was told to gate check her luggage and after boarding complained that there was space in the economy bins.

She demanded her baggage back, claiming that the crew had lied about this. Net result was that the cabin crew then kicked her off the flight! She was somewhat argumentative but not ridiculously so and the CC seemed very heavy handed about it.

So could be worse on BA!