Timeline for How strict is United Airlines First Class with carry-on luggage size?
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| Sep 17, 2021 at 18:04 | history | undeleted | JonathanReez♦ | ||
| Sep 17, 2021 at 0:09 | history | deleted | user4188 | via Vote | |
| Aug 25, 2021 at 3:00 | comment | added | Mark Stewart | @KRyan, I have seen the sizer used a few times, on MD-80s and & 737s. I used to fly on business a lot, but I think I've mostly seen it happen primarily on a flight with mostly leisure travelers, full plane, late afternoon... | |
| S Aug 24, 2021 at 23:09 | history | suggested | Sander | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Added note about what a sizer is
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| Aug 24, 2021 at 14:01 | comment | added | xxbbcc | @DanIsFiddlingByFirelight I know, I've seen similar, too. Both sides could use more common sense. | |
| Aug 23, 2021 at 20:41 | comment | added | Dan Is Fiddling By Firelight | @xxbbcc about 10 years ago at DFW on a domestic AA flight I saw someone arguing with the boarding staff about a bag whose main compartment and outside zipper pockets were bulging by about 3-4 inches (I'm amazed he was able to zip it shut and that didn't subsequently burst) and clearly wouldn't come close to fitting into the sizer box. It was comical to the extent I was thinking "first time flier", only to have him board without the bag a few rows away and spent about 10 minutes ranting to the person next to him about how this airline always hassles him about that bag. 🤦‍♂️ | |
| Aug 23, 2021 at 19:22 | comment | added | user4188 | @KRyan Wizz and Ryanair both sizers every bag of passengers who didn't pay for priority -- at least at the Budapest airport they do. I had BA sizer my backpack once at LHR -- truth be told, it is a customized one so it looks larger than it is but it did fit the sizer... | |
| Aug 23, 2021 at 16:33 | comment | added | ZeroTheHero | Which is worse? The airline publishing a rule and not really enforcing it, or publishing a rule and enforcing it? Of course now that you pay for checked luggage, it wouldn’t good PR to crack down and strictly enforce their own rule. | |
| Aug 23, 2021 at 16:05 | comment | added | xxbbcc | @KRyan I've seen several times at DFW passengers being told that their carry-on is too large and they have to check it in. I think it was American Airlines to international destinations. It didn't happen every time I flew but when it did, they were really obnoxious about it. One case I remember particularly well was a guy's (large) laptop case that fit exactly in the container but its fabric handle was over (the top surface was in line with the sizer frame so the fabric handle was sitting above the line) and they told him it's oversized. | |
| Aug 23, 2021 at 15:38 | comment | added | Peter M | @KRyan I have seen carry on luggage checked for size with flights out of Ft Lauderdale IIRC with Southwest. So it does happen. | |
| Aug 23, 2021 at 13:50 | comment | added | KRyan | I have never—in hundreds of flight—seen any airline use the sizer for any bag owned by any customer. Every single time, they just take bags regardless of size until the overhead containers are filled, and then they gate-check everything else that would have used them, again regardless of size. Once I was allowed to find a place to stow a small-ish duffel bag after they had announced they were gate-checking everything. I imagine if someone brought something truly egregious, and then argued about it, they would use the sizer to prove the customer wrong, but I’ve never seen that happen. | |
| Aug 23, 2021 at 3:54 | history | answered | user4188 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |