This is why there is no room in the overheads
Wednesday, 12 Mar 2025
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The GA shouldn’t ask if he wanted to check it. It’s obviously outside the size guidelines. The GA should inform him that he WILL be gate checking it. If he refuses then don’t allow him on the plane.
Bad behavior that goes without consequences just continues on and doesn’t change.
That’s on the GA – they should force the check of something clearly outside of the size limits if it’s a small amount overhead space
The worst part about travel is how many people cannot follow simple instructions or norms.
My experience has been that someone like that (e.g., someone with steamer trunk sized luggage) is always the first or last person to board.
If they’re the first, everything backs up behind them while they try to figure out why their oversized luggage will not fit in the overhead.
If they’re the last, they come on and start opening all of the closed bins looking for somewhere to cram their oversized bag and are shocked to see them all full.
The small gray bag on his left shoulder looks like it might be a CPAP machine (medical equipment that does not count for the 2-bag carry on limit). But yeah that backpack is ridiculous and I am surprised they allowed it.
I am sure the GA looked at this guy and just presumed it was going to be a freak out. The bad behavior has to get corrected though.
I was in Terminal 5 at JFK this week and someone was entering the security line with three bags like this. The agent checking if people had pre-check turned him away and said that only two bags were allowed, a carry-on and a personal item. The person tried to say that they were going to check one of the bags at the gate, and the agent said that they had to check it prior to going through security. That’s where these people need to be stopped, since all airlines have the same policy on bags.
This dude is 100% about to board a CRJ-900.
IMO they should not ask, they should tell him he has no other options and he should have to pay. He has a personal item and 2 bags.
That’s one thing I admire about the smaller airlines, like Spirit, Frontier, etc. They don’t ask if you want to check it, you either check it or you’re not getting on the flight
Back in the day Delta used to pay someone to stand outside of security at EWR and make you confirm your carry on fit in the rack. I miss those days, I wish they’d bring it back.
He has 3 items: one that possibly could have fit in an overhead bin, a personal item, and a backpack that should have been checked. Not up to him to decline. He shouldn’t have been allowed to board.
Why would anyone check a bag for 40 bucks when you can carry a ton of stuff as a carryon for free? Airlines do this to themselves. Make the first checked bag free and I think half this problem goes away.
We boarding on Tuesday and were asked to gate check, which didn’t come as a surprise because we were some of the last passengers on. But half of the overhead compartments were empty
drops it off at delta comfort, sits in the back
100% that guy early boarded and put both of his bags in the overhead. Inconsiderate selfish people going to do what they do.
As long as Delta allows them to, they will.
We need a frontier GA. They don’t mind telling someone to check their oversized bag.
Why are they allowed to vring this on when it clearly doesnt fit the size requirements? This shouldnt be a ‘do you want to check this’ but ‘either you’re checking that here or you arent boarding this plane’. This is why people who follow the tules get furious when they get told there’s no room. There would be if everyone was made to play the same game.
I’ve been a victim of losing my dedicated C+ bin spot due to this type of behavior on the smaller planes. It makes for a nightmare trying to get off the plane.
Also to add, that backpack had a rigid frame.
I hate this man but have never met him
This is the stereo typical setup of every other traveler flying out of Colorado Springs or Denver. All that’s missing is 3 Nalgene bottles lashed to the pack along with 10 caribiners.
I’ll bet good money that this guy counts on the staff member either ignoring him altogether, or capitulating if confronted.
It’s a douche move.
Boarding group 8 right there
The bag at his waist could be a camera bag, but it also looks very close to a carry bag for a CPAP. If that’s the case, I’m pretty sure that CPAP’s are not considered to be counted against your carry-on limit as it is considered life-saving medical equipment. Either way, those other two bags are way too freaking big to not be checked.
What aggravate me is purses and backpack that do fit under the seats people put them in overhead for my round trip i was sitting in front of the plane and still had to put luggage all the way to the back of the plane overhead
I was in Casablanca recently, and you can’t even get to passport control without first putting your carry-on on a scale, which is monitored by 2 employees, who make sure it’s not over weight or size. You can’t proceed through the first set of kiosks without doing this.
Freaking Casablanca, which is not exactly a well-run airport in other respects.
Airlines are afraid of the bad publicity but honestly, what are we going to do even if they suck balls? Not fly? Enforce the damn rules.
That should not be allowed . Someone needs to tell him to gate check that huge thing
He has 2 large bags. There’s one in his hand too
Honestly, that orange pack, on a normal Airbus or Boeing plane, doesn’t look “too big” to me. I have a similar pack I often travel with. It is considerably smaller and more nimble (less total volume and no hard sides so it will conform to more spaces) to fit in an overhead than most supposed roller ‘carry-ons’ I see. If this was a CRJ or similar-sized plane with very tight overhead space though, which can generally only accommodate the smallest of carry-on luggage, then yeah, he should’ve gate-checked (which I’m more than happy to do as I typically prefer to board somewhat late and already know there’s no chance of space being available when I get on). But even still, that’s not on the passenger – this is 100% on the gate agent for allowing him to get through with all that considering he has so much else going on that will also require space (I imagine his seat mate was none too pleased).