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The reason becomes apparent when you take a carry on bag and find yourself desperately searching for somewhere to put it in an overhead bin, but there is none.
by xwdv 3y ago
The reason becomes apparent when you take a carry on bag and find yourself desperately searching for somewhere to put it in an overhead bin, but there is none. You boarded too late and everyone ahead of you stole your allotted space.
NOW you have to check in your carry on. And waste time waiting for your bag at the baggage claim. If it even makes it. Your bag has much higher chance of being lost if checked in late.
- wkat4242 3y agoYup this. I'm not a herd person but I love boarding first so I can tuck my bag away. It means the worry of that is gone. And I actually like sitting in my window seat a lot more than at the gate.
- pc86 3y agoPretty funny use of the word "stole" in this context. The space being above a particular doesn't make it that seat's space any more than the public parking space on the street in front of your house makes it yours. And I've been on probably 8 or 10 flights this year and every time they said carry-ons checked at the gate are returned planeside upon arrival; not once have they been sent to baggage claim.
- fsckboy 3y ago>The reason becomes apparent when you take a carry on bag your unreason will become apparent when you check that bag and stroll completely unencumbered through the vast distances twixt curb and plane (x2 departure and arrival) baggage claim really doesn't take that long, and you can come up with something zen to do for 5 or 10 minutes, make a phone call or two, talk to family or friends. Life is better when you stop inconveniencing yourself and creating a rat race when there isn't one. Let everyone around you fight over the overheads.
- Frivolous9421 3y agoI agreed until I lost thousands of dollars of shit in a checked bag TWICE in one lifetime
- xwdv 3y agoThe crazy thing is, the chance of someone dying is about the same as the chances of you losing your checked bags.
- jjav 3y ago> baggage claim really doesn't take that long Sure. Just recently picked up my partner from SFO on a late night arrival. It tooke THREE HOURS for the bags to start arriving on the belt. Who knows why. Zero information given to the hundreds of angry people standing there. A very miserable time. Yes, that's not typical, but it happens. If you carry your bags, it can't possibly ever happen.
- nrclark 3y agoActually the opposite is true. When you gate-check your bags, they are handled carefully and go directly into the plane. Sometimes even into a corner of the passenger area. Parents routinely gate-check strollers, and it’s rare to see one get lost. Also, gate-checked luggage is given to you at the gate when you land. So no baggage claim.
- jjav 3y ago> When you gate-check your bags, they are handled carefully Spend some time at the window seats at the gate looking at earlier flights and how gate-checked luggage is handled. It gets thrown down this chute that drops hard some 20ft to the ground. It also gets very carelessly thrown in there, so a bunch of the bags miss the chute and just drop straight down to the concrete. If you had anything other than clothes in there, ouch! You'll get back a back full of destroyed fragments.