Originally Posted by
flyingcrooked
Thanks all. As it happens no weighing of course, and indeed there seemed to be no enforcement of carry on size or number that I could see. Boarding took forever with all sorts of shenanigans going on to try to fit everyone's bags in the bins. I was very surprised. This is an issue for Air Canada (my main airline) and I was shocked that LH didn't handle it better (but of course this was just one flight, perhaps it does in general).
That's the case everywhere now. Turns out if you teach people not to check in their bags by charging extra....
...they will learn to not check their bags in. Who knew.