Originally Posted by
HeathrowGuy
All of this is peanuts compared to the real problem -- Continental's agents do not enforce Continental's carry-on baggage restrictions. Until they do, loading an aircraft will continue to be a needlessly complex sh!tshow.
Bingo; the policy is not enforced at all. On every trip, I observe individuals with either greatly oversized baggage or more than one carryon and a personal item. Over the holidays, I saw two guys in a P Club who had everything but the kitchen sink with them. One had a huge garment bag, rollaboard that was one size too big to be "carryon legal," a laptop case, and another brief case. The other guy had a huge duffle bag, rollaboard, laptop briefcase, and a backpack. The two of them alone probably would have taken half the overhead space in a 733 or 73G.
This, of course, is in addition to the hundreds of others I have seen breaking the carryon rules.