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Old Apr 4, 2024 | 3:17 pm
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Sopwith
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So let’s see if we can follow the logic trail that led us to this:

WS decides to charge a fee for checked bags —> predictably, passengers connive to avoid the fee by bringing more or only carry-on baggage —> inevitably and predictably a significant number make it through security and arrive at the gate with too many and/or oversized bags that should have been checked and paid for at the bag drop —> in the early stages of this policy the bins filled up early and the FAs had to deal with the excess, mainly by checking the excess bags for free during the boarding process amongst everything else they have to do —> to try to alleviate the chaos, WS then proactively offers to gate check for free the excess/oversize bags before the boarding starts, to the irritation of passengers who did follow the rules and paid for checked bags —> this works to an extent, but some passengers in the peon class boarding zones still don’t get bin space, so now the FAs are still dealing with the excess/oversized bags during boarding —> in a further attempt to address the chaos WS decides to charge a fee for early access to the bins, which actually means that roughly the same number of passengers, just different ones, will still be out of luck for bin space, but now WS has more money.

Have I got that right?
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