Originally Posted by
FlyingUnderTheRadar
What story are you looking to have align? I typically only hear announcements about gate checking after the GA looks at the flight manifests and determines that the flight is going to be "full" and as such likely run of overhead baggage space. Sounds like your flight was not a full flight so there was no need to preemptively ask for people to check their bags regardless if there was an announcement or not.
But... *was* this a "full" flight?
Are you sure that is wasn't a "very full" flight? Or maybe even <gasp> an "extremely full" flight? (for some reason my brain always envisions people standing in the aisles for the whole flight, and stacked up in the OHBs. Something like this:
