Originally Posted by dsweet
...require all airlines to present all baggage for claim within ten(10) minutes of the aircraft reaching the gate... restrict the carry on of any bag over 7 kg... I would gladly forego this "right" if my bags were presented within ten minutes, as they are overseas, and on Southwest here, in order to avoid the lines at TSA.
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Comment: insane.
There's no way to compel timely baggage delivery.
Throwing more people at a bad system doesn't make it a faster system.
10 minutes from gate to carousel? It takes twice as long to get all the PEOPLE off a full 757-300; baggage in half the time will never happen. (And at airports with outlier concourses or satellites like ATL or DEN, 10-minute delivery would be a physical impossibility.)
The high risk of theft, loss or damage in checked-baggage systems would lead many people to drive rather than fly when feasible, costing the airlines revenue.
A 7kg carry-on limit would lead to full airplanes taking off with half-full bins, making business pax angry at being inconvenienced/delayed because of another stupid government regulation.
Baggage overseas is not usually "presented within ten minutes" -- never hung around LHR on a foggy day, I guess. You've just been lucky.
If current carry-on limits were properly enforced by airline gate agents there would be no problem. The last thing this industry needs is more government meddling in the form of genuinely unenforceable mandates that make everyone madder than they are already.
The day a 7kg carry-on limit is imposed is the day I buy fractional ownership in a Madden-cruiser.