Originally Posted by
GoingAway
It was the FAs comment that still confuses me though ... why would passengers be kicked off if they didn't move the bags up versus just leaving some of the bags behind to follow. (again, NOT something I'd want to have happen to my bag, but UAX has been known to do this w/o consideration for the impact to the passenger)
Carry-on baggage is included in the weight of the passenger, so if a bag is in the cabin, it effectively disappears.
When I worked at UAX, we would occasionally leave both passengers and their bags behind, since they didn't want to separate passengers and bags and develop an overload of bags at one station. Not sure if that's the right policy, since it always seemed to make sense to me to get people to their destinations, but that's how it was sometimes done.