At 05:01 PM 8/23/99 -0400, Scott Nelson wrote:
>re. carry-on baggage weight limit
>
>I too have never had my carry-on weighed. HOWEVER, here in Denver, United
>Airlines has thrown its WEIGHT around and gotten templates installed on the
>X-ray machines to the exact maximum dimensions allowed for carry-ons. And since
>the scanners are at the entry for all the terminals, your carry-on must pass
>through them even if your flying on another carrier. There is no room for
>compromise, even if you buy regulation sized bags they can fail if you
>overstuff
>them or catch on external handles or pockets. You only find this out as your
>entering the terminal so if your bags fail, its BACK in line at check-in to
>check them. Further, since you can fly into Denver without having passed
>through
>the templates at another airport, people leaving Denver are in for a nasty
>surprise when the same bags they carried-on in-bound are rejected at security.
And the Powers That Be wonder why people experience "air rage"? :-/
On a related note, airline check-ins in Canada also impose both the weight
limit and the size limit (with cute little "size harnesses" into which you
insert your carry-on to make sure it conforms). However, enforcement varies.
The most relaxed airline in Canada vis-á-vis carry-on limits has to be Westjet
(which, as the name implies, only operates throughout Western Canada), whose
personnel on a number of occasions have glanced at my overstuffed carry-ons and
said the equivalent of the New Yorker's "aaaaaah, fuggedaboudit!" and waved me
through to the plane -- particularly if the flight's running less than full.
Nice airline, and dirt cheap flights to boot.
Oly content? Hey, they let me carry my entire LowePro Magnum 35 stuffed with
Oly gear as carry-on, as well as another carry-on, and I guarantee that the
LowePro met neither size nor weight restrictions! :-)
Garth
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thunderstorm passing through the Edmonton area last Saturday. We're working on
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