It would have sufficed, IME, to enforce the single piece of luggage on board (no extra purse, no backpack, no shopping bag). Even with the old rules half of the pax carry two pieces.

Then it would also help to organize hold carry-on. At most stations serving CRJs only the frequent flyers know that they can leave the bag at the stairs. All the rest comes above, tries to cram it in, then start to retract one-by-one to the front. This is nonsense. What happened to distributing the tags, and clearly marked carts?

This change is plainly silly, and likely is also going to end up like BA where you are forced to keep your bag under the seat in front of you. Not fun at all if you are anything but a dwarf.

Suddenly, on my most frequent route (WAW-CPH) LO sounds very attractive, as I have essentially already re-qualified this year, so no need to set my foot on SK for the next 8 months really. LO gives me a free bag to check as SKG (SK does not). LO has 3 rotations a day (SK has two), and LO has a much better schedule for a business traveler with a morning and an evening rotation (SK has two rotations roughly mid-day, sucks). A pretty good chance of a power socket if I seat close to the front. At WAW there is 50% chance of a jet-bridge with LO (0% with SK), at CPH there is 100% chance of a jet-bridge with LO (50% with SK). Ah, and right now the prices from LO are 10-20% lower on average, unlike a few years back. I am even tempted to consider reopening a MM account - but this is probably a bad idea

Why I am still flying SK?