I don’t want to check my bag at the gate.

[Anonymous]

Make sure you're in an earlier boarding group.

[Anonymous]

OMG people just check a bag.

No need to squeeze your sunscreen into multiple 3 oz bottles you bought from Target, or wash your underwear in the sink every night, or stress out about your boarding group.

Some airports the checked luggage gets to baggage claim before I do.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OMG people just check a bag.

No need to squeeze your sunscreen into multiple 3 oz bottles you bought from Target, or wash your underwear in the sink every night, or stress out about your boarding group.

Some airports the checked luggage gets to baggage claim before I do.

You forgot the $35 per person each way part.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OMG people just check a bag.

No need to squeeze your sunscreen into multiple 3 oz bottles you bought from Target, or wash your underwear in the sink every night, or stress out about your boarding group.

Some airports the checked luggage gets to baggage claim before I do.

You forgot the $35 per person each way part.

Which is nothing for a lot of people here, especially when the stress and inconvenience is considered. np

[Anonymous]

I travel frequently, often in Main Cabin Extra or whatever it is called, and that happens to me very rarely. Don't fret over problems that haven't happened yet.

[Anonymous]

As Elsa sings in Frozen, “Let it go—“

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This doesn't happen all that often. If it does, you roll with it.

+1

It's part of the hell of air travel. You don't like it? Fly private.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OMG people just check a bag.

No need to squeeze your sunscreen into multiple 3 oz bottles you bought from Target, or wash your underwear in the sink every night, or stress out about your boarding group.

Some airports the checked luggage gets to baggage claim before I do.

You forgot the $35 per person each way part.

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A lot of people don’t pay it (Southwest, credit card or FF status etc) but also it’s waived for gate checked bags so you could just assume it’ll be gate checked and then be happy if it’s not.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If the flight attendants announce they will be requiring gate checking of bags, there is no “carry-on anyway”. It’s not optional.

It’s not the flight attendants who make this decision, it’s the gate agents, and they don’t relay this to the flight attendants.

A flight attendant

I’m sorry that insulted you. It doesn’t change the fact that OP doesn’t get a choice to gate check when it’s required.

She doesn’t sound insulted. She was providing information.

Sorry, FA, it was pedantic comment that didn’t change the point that if you’re told to gate check you don’t the option to refuse.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This doesn't happen all that often. If it does, you roll with it.

+1

It's part of the hell of air travel. You don't like it? Fly private.

Private planes should be banned

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Last summer we travelled to a popular destination and the flight was full. We were at the beginning of “main” boarding, and when there were about five groups ahead of us they suddenly announced they were going to start checking bags because “the flight is full and to expedite boarding”. NOT because of weight and balance. And, as we found out once we boarded and were met with wide open bins, NOT because of the bins being full. They just wanted to board us quickly, apparently. At that point it was too late to go back and retrieve my carry-on, and I was even more annoyed later when it took forever for the bags to make it to the conveyer at our destination when I had paid extra to be “main” vs “economy”. In hindsight I could have made a fuss and demanded the difference returned to me, but I digress.

We are headed back in a couple days and I’m already anticipating the same thing happening. What happens if I just carry-on anyway and find that there are no bins this time?

They did this on our flight to Rome in June on United. If you are concerned pack a duffel that will go under the seat instead of a roller.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OMG people just check a bag.

No need to squeeze your sunscreen into multiple 3 oz bottles you bought from Target, or wash your underwear in the sink every night, or stress out about your boarding group.

Some airports the checked luggage gets to baggage claim before I do.

You forgot the $35 per person each way part.

United now charges $80 per bag each way.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OMG people just check a bag.

No need to squeeze your sunscreen into multiple 3 oz bottles you bought from Target, or wash your underwear in the sink every night, or stress out about your boarding group.

Some airports the checked luggage gets to baggage claim before I do.

You forgot the $35 per person each way part.

And the "hassle when the bags don't make it" part.

[Anonymous]

Just tell them you have medical supplies in your bag that you aren't comfortable putting in checked bag/won't fit in the smaller carry on. It could be medicine, a CPAP, osteomy supplies, breast pump, etc.

[Anonymous]

It's just not that big of a deal to get your bag at the baggage claim. People now have a complex about carrying on, but checking a bag is just not problematic. If you don't want to pay for it (which often isn't that much - or get one of the airline's credit cards so that it's free), then I suppose you could pack as though you were carrying on and hand it over for gate check if asked. Obsessively carrying on is such a weird flex.