Originally Posted by GUWonder

At South Florida airports when I’m headed back to the NYC area, I’ve seen people come with giant shopping bags on top of the regular assortment of two or three cabin baggage items. One group of women who were clearly overloaded with cabin baggage and stopped for it — and this was close to seven years ago — asked some of us, after they had scanned their boarding passes, if we would bring on board an item for them during the boarding process. I refused, but it seemed to me like the airline wasn’t stopping then from asking others to do so that time.