T2A

I plan on holding them to it. I actually started checking a bag more often just because of this. Haha

drvannostren

I do like the idea they're at least charging for them at the gate. It really bothers me that people pay for bags at check-in, but then a good chunk of people skip right past check-in then end up checking the bag for free at the gate.

What also gets me though is the bag sizer, I know the dimensions of my bag will fit the limits for X airline, but I swear even with nothing in it the sizers sometimes won't allow it to fit.

pcoll

And then take your boarding pass and get in line with the 40 other people wanting the same voucher from CS. Last time I saw the line, I decided it was not worth it. Went home and tried to submit online. Told it would not be accepted as I was to do it at airport before leaving.
Damaged bag worked out better. Agent who could fill out report at baggage claim was at dinner. Someone gave me their cell phone number. I called the next day and she was very unhappy I had her cell phone number. Reminded me it was to have been done before I left airport. I explained that is how I ended up with her number. Finally got resolved after 8 weeks of phone calls.

EmailKid

Don't know about others, and while UA has a bag checker, I've never seen anyone at UA use it.

And I've seen some huge rollaboards come on board

Pretty sure some of those were larger than what would fall under AS' old policy, as they would not fit in UA's new large bins.

Calculon

Skip the line and DM them on Twitter. It's worked every time for me so far.

BayAreaTrvler

notquiteaff

kileysmom

I fortunately get to fly F (paid) for the vast majority of my AS and other flights. No one on any airline has even blinked at my carry on. What happened today for those who were in F? I'd really appreciate knowing for my next (soon) flight. I can say that I would be royally p....... if I had to check my probably slightly oversized roller only to look at empty bins.

pcoll

Once again, Thank you Calculon. Good to know.

rune87

Geez...I must be the only one happy about this enforcement. Coming from NWA years ago where it was pretty regularly enforced out of Hawaii, it made plane loading so much more efficient. The new sizes really arent all that much smaller. Yes...I too will now need to downsize my pelican case a hair, but if it keeps the monstrosities out of the overhead bin and makes boarding faster once things settle down, Im game for it. I realize the airlines brought this upon themselves, but comsumers demanding lower prices did as well. Ultimately gotta pay to play. I'll see the humor on Thursday and see if its gotten better.

evergrn

My carry-on is a hair over 23"(including wheels and handle) x 14" x 9". That 9" is only on good days.
I take it onboard for basically every flight.
So far this year, I've flown on UA, DL, EVA, ANA, Jet Blue, AS. No one's batted an eye at the gate, it fits wheels first or out in every bin, and so many biz travelers go in with rollerboards that are clearly even bigger than mine.

If what I'm reading is true, AS will be the first airline to give me grief over this bag of mine. Anyways, I'm sure this is first-day blunder that will smooth out real fast.

evergrn

You might be right about that.

halamadrid

So Alaska has over 1K departures per day but a few tweets are evidence of a crisis...my favorite is the tweet with the photo of the one open bin with [some] space while all the others around it are closed presumably because they are full. I also hear a lot of my "my bag fits just fine in the bin," but they leave out the part that it's at the expense of everyone else in that row having space for their own bag instead of desperately swimming upstream upon landing.

Behavior change is always difficult so I suspect that for the next month or so GAs will be using those measuring boxes quite a bit and even be a bit overzealous. Over time most people will have adjusted their behavior and they'll probably be really strict only on full flights, or when the GA is having a bad day . Again, these are the measurements that pretty much all airlines use and my guess is that as someone else mentioned this is also an attempt to catch those who avoid paying for checking their bag knowing that they can check it for free at the gate when GAs make the call. This will make it easier to charge those people.

beltphed

Couple of data points:

4 Jun FLL:SEA AS 35 - gate agents made no effort to size check bags during pre-board, military, first, or elite boarding. (my data point ends here because friend reporting is a 75K and boarded)

5 Jun SEA:ORD AS 20 - gate agents made zero effort to size check bags during pre-board, military, or first boarding.

Granted, FLL is an out station and SEA:ORD is last flight of the day so maybe these aren't representative.

PV_Premier

Expand the tweet and you'll see why it's so special. The twitter rep claims "weight and balance" as the issue for leading to extensive bag checking