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

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Our family was targeted in Amsterdam for gate checking while transferring to another intra-Europe flight.  Not sure why.  A gate agent approached us at the gate well before boarding (while we were sitting waiting for the flight) and asked if we were so and so, when we confirmed, they asked us to gate check.  We asked if we could decline and they said no.  Actually it was the three of us that shared the same last name.  The fourth in the party was not on their list probably because of a different name.

That felt pretty crummy to be picked out like that. Not clear why either.  Nothing happened on our previous flight that should have picked us out as people with unusual baggage or anything like that.  It was selectively applied to people based on the passenger roster.  Maybe based on row location.  But our seats had working bins overhead.

I think it's pretty much that making one family mad is easier than making three separate flyers mad.[/quote]

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