Originally Posted by
Tine Rod
Delta should be ashamed to market this as a perk to begin with. Fine print not withstanding it’s simply misleading.
Any reasonable person understands exactly what it means and it is far from misleading.
There simply is no guarantee of OH space because, for better or for worse, in a standard narrow-body, even with the C+ pitch, there is not enough space if everybody brings the largest "legal" carry on. At least, if you are able to board with your BG, e.g. not a tight connection, if the C+ bins can't accommodate you, it is somebody in the back who loses out because you still have time to find OH space.
Absent a major change, the choices are to reduce the carry-on allowance and enforce it to the millimeter, or to muddle by as it is today.