Originally Posted by
ft101
It is not generally OK to abuse systems put in place for the benefit/comfort/convenience of all, just to make your own life easier. Even if the airline in question lets you get away with it you'll still be out of order.
If you were/are a GA, would you strictly enforce sizing every carry-on, just curious.
Also do you always always go the speed limit in the school zone, just curious too
Seriously the sizer and limitations are all things put in place to managed the limited storage and insure orderly and boarding. Various airlines obviously have both safety and logistics that guide how strictly they enforce it, what routes and times. International airlines seem very strict with weight, but more lenient or even blinding eye on additional duty free items that if summed would bust their weight limits.
On the original topic, I feel this is totally YMMV, meet a crazy strict GA they will hold you one item in the sizer, and one personal item, maybe they could add the scale and weight too for some foreign carriers. I've seen them enforce the sizer but allow instruments, duty free bags that make carryone items count as high as 6 get on, no hard fast rule, just be ready to check in your roller board