What are the airlines rules about the number and size of carry-on bags?
Not even the airlines know. Want a perfect example of how screwed up the carriers are when it comes to carry-on rules? When Delta announced on April 9 that it was changing its rules for carry-on bags effective April 15, it had to issue two press releases. Why? The first release gave the wrong dimensions for Size Wise, Delta’s proprietary, at-the-gate sizer boxes. If the airlines don’t know their own rules, how can they expect us to know? We can’t, of course, and that allows the airlines to tell us it’s our fault no matter what we do. Question: Aren’t travelers attempting to carry on an increasing number of bags? Answer: This may surprise you, but probably not. Despite all the wailing and caterwauling, there is no fact and no extrapolation of fact to prove that travelers are carrying on more bags. No airline has ever produced a survey, a research report or any data at all about the number of bags that passengers carry on. The bottom line is startling simple: Airlines don’t know how many
