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I think the original intent for carry-on + personal item is that a carry-on is a backpack and the personal item is your purse (so only 50% of the population has

I think the original intent for carry-on + personal item is that a carry-on is a backpack and the personal item is your purse (so only 50% of the population has one). They stopped measuring carry-ons and now people take an ordinary suitcase as their carry-on and their maximum-allowed-carry-on-sized-bag as their personal item. Neither fit under the seat. (I personally have been using a maximum-allowed-size backpack forever, and because it's soft, it can easily be crushed under the seat in front of me. It's not pleasant! But I've done it. Everyone should be like me.)

SoftTalker 3y ago
> They stopped measuring carry-ons Why? I don't fly very much, and I remember those frames that your carry-on bag had to fit in or you'd have to check it. Why did this stop?
- brigade 3y ago
  Waste of time and being combative with passengers with wildly inconsistent enforcement of bags that touch the edges, or were compliant sizes until the airline changed its rules, or are currently compliant with other airlines' allowed sizes, and fit in the overhead anyway in the correct orientation because mainline airplanes have basically two actual bin sizes (and bins in regional planes generally can't fit the allowed carryon dimensions anyway.) Really, the only stupidly large carryons I see people trying their luck is the occasional 60l+ hiking backpack, which are obvious enough that gate agents could force them to measure.