Hand baggage not guaranteed
Dec 1, 2022, 11:07 am
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Hand baggage not guaranteed
Just checked in for YUL-AMS-GLA for tomorrow. Husband, explorer FB got the following on his boarding pass (digital and paper), in a dark blue box, "Hand baggage not guaranteed in cabin". I am silver FB, my boarding passes have no such note.
Is this a new thing? Does this mean mine are guaranteed, now that's a bonus.
ETA - we both have zone 3 boarding.
Is this a new thing? Does this mean mine are guaranteed, now that's a bonus.
ETA - we both have zone 3 boarding.
Dec 1, 2022, 11:30 am
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This has been there for a while. It’s just mean that they prioritize hand luggage for status pax (and J of course). But in practice, nothing is guaranteed, even for status pax.
Last edited by Goldorak; Dec 2, 2022 at 2:10 pm
Dec 1, 2022, 11:33 am
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I guess as I have not travelled with himself for a while, I have not seen it before. There are never any guarantees, so weird they would bother putting it there.
Dec 1, 2022, 11:38 am
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I forgot to say that I think this mention appears only when traveling on light fare, i.e. with no checked bag included. Those pax are more prone to travel with a larger carryon.
Dec 2, 2022, 3:32 am
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Gate checks are part and parcel of flying today an all airlines at least in Europe. Passengers can (attempt) to take a damn lot of stuff onboard.
It's probably a majority of my flights that staff looks for bags to be gatechecked and indeed status pax are usually left with their carryons unless volunteering.
Putting it on a light-fare having non-FF BP makes sense. They are both more likely to have an oversize bag as well as less likely to know that this is a thing that happens (plus being "first in line" for an involuntary gate check)
It's probably a majority of my flights that staff looks for bags to be gatechecked and indeed status pax are usually left with their carryons unless volunteering.
Putting it on a light-fare having non-FF BP makes sense. They are both more likely to have an oversize bag as well as less likely to know that this is a thing that happens (plus being "first in line" for an involuntary gate check)
Dec 2, 2022, 3:58 am
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Experienced travellers know that, of course. But infrequent travellers are probably more likely to be the ones required to check in what they thought would be a "guaranteed" carry-on bag, so it probably helps the frontline staff to print this on those boarding passes.
Dec 4, 2022, 11:19 am
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I was on a flight back to AMS today which was full, and for which they announced at the gate that everyone in Zone 5 would have to check their carry-on bags at the gate.