No problem, as long as we can go back to checking two bags at no additional fee on the fare and airlines agree to be responsible for ensuring that the bags arri

No problem, as long as we can go back to checking two bags at no additional fee on the fare and airlines agree to be responsible for ensuring that the bags arrive on the carousel in the same condition they were given to the desk agent. I'm a bit older than the usual HN person, I imagine, and I remember flying before airlines decided that checked luggage was a profit center. Most people only carried on a briefcase or a camera bag, or a small day bag usually with supplies for their children. Everything else went into the hold. Of course, even in the 80s we had the Samsonite ad with the gorilla acting as baggage handler.