Originally Posted by
GUWonder
Furthermore, it ensures more people have to check in luggage that was previously allowed as cabin baggage for the very same flights. Also, it ensures more people get hassled even over tighter allowance compliant cabin baggage.
I certainly don’t want to have to deal with checked-in luggage more than I already have to do so; and so I will apportion my business based on my self-interest with regard to that too.
This is the reason planes have luggage storage at the bottom of their fuselages. Charging passengers money to avail of them (for your standard travel bag) is ludicrous when it clearly costs us aggregate time. I get the fact that some airports are slow at delivering bags; put more pressure on them.
ETA: If you had a choice of boarding your flight 30 minutes earlier than needed or waiting in baggage claim at PDX for 30 minutes, why would you choose the former?