Re: [Leica] carry-on luggage

["Bryan Caldwell" <bcaldwell@softcom.net>]

Dale,

I've encountered these new sizing openings at the security check points (at
LAX, for one). I've always been able to squeeze my Lowe Magnum AW through,
but I've seen other people who were not so lucky. What I found interesting
was that the airlines say that if your bag doesn't fit, you have to go back
and check it - I've seen people go back to the ticket counter and be told
that they can take their over-size item on as carry-on if they pay a fee. A
woman I met on a flight recently where we went through this type of security
made it on to the plane with a huge, famed piece of art work. We got to
talking and she told me that the security inspectors had made her take it
back to the ticket counter to check, but the attendants at the ticket
counter let her pay a $20 fee and take it on board.

Makes you wonder if getting tough about carry-on size restrictions is really
for safety and convenience in the cabin or to find another way to charge
passengers.

Has anybody else experienced this?

Bryan
- -----Original Message-----
From: Dale R. Reed <dale-reed@worldnet.att.net>
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Date: Monday, January 11, 1999 5:24 PM
Subject: [Leica] carry-on luggage


>Some of you will be interested in these airline luggage size
>requirements.   Dale
>
>http://msnbc.com/local/KING/142824.asp
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>  Airport personnel attempt to pass luggage through the security
>check-point.
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>United limits luggage at Sea-Tac
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>SEA-TAC, Jan. 11 – United Airlines begins cracking down on the size of
>carry-on luggage at the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport.
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>         STARTING WEDNESDAY, UNITED will measure bags before they are
>carried onto planes, making Sea-Tac the fourth in the nation where
>United is cracking down.
>    Passengers must place their bags in a stainless steel template
>that measures 9 inches high and 14 inches wide. If the bags don’t fit
>the new standard, they must be checked at the security gate.
>    The templates will be mounted at the front of all three conveyor
>belts leading to X-ray machines at United’s security check point at
>Sea-Tac.
>    The new rule would mean that United passengers at Sea-Tac will
>have to go back up two flights of escalators, back to the main ticket
>counter. And if the lines are long, they may miss their flight.
>    But United says the policy will not improve cabin safety but speed
>up departures as well.
>    “Our customers, particularly our frequent fliers, tell us their
>No. 1 complaint is the logjam in the aisles as passengers board the
>aircraft and struggle to find room for oversized bags,” said spokesman
>Matthew Triaca.
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