pbelmore

I hope you got his name and left feedback with Alaska.

The new Alaska sure is...something.

Baze

I find this whole conversation rather amusing. People complain that people bring on too big and too much carry ons. Want more enforcement of sizes and amounts. Now that it is happening it is the opposite complaint. They never got stopped before, they have always been able to bring on their bag. A wise person once said, be careful what you wish for, you just might get it. I only carry on a backpack so never have to deal with it either way.

EmailKid

Indeed. In my former life I was on the road an average of four days a week, and had to carry simple tools including screwdrivers that would *NOT* be allowed in carryone Pay wasn't all that great, and I saw a lot of hotel rooms, but it was still a great job

I see your point, but it seems to me that asking for enforcement of existing rules is WAY different from asking to change the rules and then enforce new rules @:-)

These days I'm carryon only guy, and it irks me when I see pax bring on carryons that have to go in sideways given how large the overhead bins are.

Baze

And like any big policy change, there will be major enforcement at the beginning then it will start to get less and less enforcement then things will be back they way they were before, not size wise, but enforcement wise.

And a little story about enforcement at SEA a few days ago. Getting on my flight from SEA to SJC there was a lady with a roll aboard. She pushed her way to the front of the boarding queue with a very big roll aboard, doubt it was even within the old size limits. She got told 3 times to put it in the sizer. She walked away, then pushed way to front again. I kept watching her as it was giving me some entertainment. I boarded when my group was called A little bit later she comes on and I see she still has her bag, she somehow snuck it past the GA and got it onboard. Now the funny part. It didn't fit in the overhead, not even sideways and she had to gate check it anyways. She was very mad saying it has always fit in every plane she has ever been on including the little ones (her words). Caused a big hassle as this was the middle of boarding and she had to fight her way upstream like a salmon to get back to the front of the plane. I saw the GA come aboard and she told the lady she had been told multiple times it would have to be gate checked and it wasn't cool that she somehow got past the GA with it and was now holding everyone up. Lady repeated the part about it always fit before. GA tagged the bag and told the lady to take her seat. I see the lady go past where she was trying to stuff the bag and went to almost the very back of the plane. I think I know how she snuck it on, the position the had the sizer left a space and it was right next to the boarding door. I bet she stashed it behind the sizer, did the BP thing with the GA then grabbed her bag as she went through the door and the GA would never see. I would be this was a 26" suitcase and it was expanded.

beckoa

Welcome to Flyertalk and the Alaska Airlines forum @brentyb.

Toshbaf

Not so easy. Yesterday, I measured my main bag with a metal tape measure. The size, in general, is different from the maximum measurement of all the handles, straps, and wheels. Furthermore, many people have no idea whether the sizer is exact, whether it is a hard box or a few metal strips.

No, I never complained or even got annoyed with others' carryons being too big. As long as it is not a regular suitcase but a carryon size, an inch or two doesn't matter. I may be a little bit annoyed if people take too many. However, it's easy to say one carry on and one personal. Most people don't bring 3. Most people don't try the maximum, such as one carry on, one person item, one umbrella, one bag of food, several books for reading, CPAP machine, cane, and winter coat.

PV_Premier

84fiero

No it isn't. A rollaboard bag or two...or five...being in the overhead vice the cargo hold has no material impact on the W&B of a 737. This isn't a Cessna 152.

PV_Premier

for practical purposes, you're right. but to meet regulations and safety demands, checked bag count does matter.

84fiero

Yes, of course hold luggage and cargo weight is important, but if the bag in the scenario above doesn't end up making it into the hold, the bag is not part of the loaded baggage weight used for W&B calculation. It doesn't mean the bag must be found and must be loaded into the hold before plane can't take off or something (as the poster seemed to imply using W&B as a reason). Otherwise we'd never have lost bags that were checked in but failed to get loaded onto the plane. Following that, the fact that said bag ended up as a carry-on instead isn't a W&B issue - carry-on weights and locations, or lack of carry-on, are never known with precision in the first place. That was the point.

PDX4MSU

nomiiiii

As mvpg did you get charged a gate-check fee?

Can someone who has experienced this please clarify this - I'll be more annoyed if gate-check fee is charged specially from mvps.

PDX4MSU

cragAK

The product page states that the external dimensions are 22" x 15.75" x 9", larger than the posted 22" x 14" x 9"

If this bag fits though I'll feel much better about my 19" x 14.5" x 9" not being denied for being half an inch too wide.....

PV_Premier

I bet