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Waiting to board a full A321neo from SFO to BOS and the GA announces they have to check 25 rollaboards - (i) Isn't the whole point of the new bins to eliminate the need for gate-checking, and (ii) how would they know how many passengers have a rollaboard today in order to come up with the 25 number?
I would guess that if they know the number of passengers they can estimate the number of rollers within 2 or 3. The deviation on this is probably pretty small.