Mandatory Gate Check with Envoy Air E175?
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Mandatory Gate Check with Envoy Air E175?
I have been on some AA flights on smaller commuter jets recently where they have required all roller boards to be plane side checked. Does anyone have any recent experience with Envoy Air E175 flights? I have a tight connection in DFW where the inbound flight is on a E175 operated by Envoy Air and would prefer not to have to wait for the bag to be retrieved.
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This topic has come up many times – some of AA's commuter carriers have operating certificates that forbid them from having wheeled rollaboards in the cabin. For these airlines it doesn't matter how small your wheeled bag is it must be valet-checked ... as well as also being the case that your non-wheeled (shoulder) bag can be as large as you like as long as it fits somewhere in the cabin. The requirement to valet check can be not about whether it fits, but about whether the operating certificate for that airline and that plane permits it.
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Yup -- I've heard announcements recently that they hard-count 25 rollers and force check any after this
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This topic has come up many times – some of AA's commuter carriers have operating certificates that forbid them from having wheeled rollaboards in the cabin. For these airlines it doesn't matter how small your wheeled bag is it must be valet-checked ... as well as also being the case that your non-wheeled (shoulder) bag can be as large as you like as long as it fits somewhere in the cabin. The requirement to valet check can be not about whether it fits, but about whether the operating certificate for that airline and that plane permits it.
Why would an AOC determine the use of wheeled bags?
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It was on a CLT-ALB flight.
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In the case of wholly owneds, sure, but it would be pretty tough to have absolute parity with their other regionals that also operate on behalf of other carriers.
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Interesting....being east coast based, I don't see many Skywest planes out this way. Thanks for the clarification/correction.