Originally Posted by
CHIC SILBER
Many of the things in my SMALL rollaboard aren't to be checked
and that includes gate check as I need the certainty of it as
well as the ability to rapidly escape especially for connections
Chic, Agreed that gate checking is not the same as keeping the rollaboard in the overhead.
As far as the rapid escape for connection, deplaning an RJ is almost always quicker than a mainline jet, even though pax must wait as the ramp personnel unload the gate-checked bags first.