United reduces bags... others to follow?

[dagibbs]

So, United just announced that they were reducing your checked luggage amount from 2 bags to 1 for the basic cheap seat tickets. I wonder if the other North American airlines are going to do the same soon?

Flying gets less and less pleasant... more security, so it is harder to carry one as much, so we needed to check more stuff... and, now (well, soon), we can't check as much stuff, either.

(At least I'm 1337 enough that United will still let me bring stuff.)

Comments

[dagibbs.livejournal.com]

For many flights on smaller planes (like the flights to Montreal, TO, Detroit, etc from Ottawa) also restrict the amount of carry-on, often to one piece. Sometimes it is "one piece, plus one personal item such as a purse or laptop" and sometimes (lately) it is "one piece".

[http://users.livejournal.com/niall_/]

Well, there's a valid reason for that - those turboprops tend to not have any real overhead space, and seats are noticeably narrower, so there's often barely space for a small personal belonging. Since those flights are rarely more than "1.5 hours" (meaning an hour inthe air and some time taxiing), I can deal with bent knees. But I think you have even longer legs than I have, and mine are at the limit of comfortability, so yeah, I understand your pain about valuable foot room.

[dagibbs.livejournal.com]

I was mostly thinking of the baby jets rather than the turbo-props, but same idea. And, I understand why the "only one carry-on", it makes sense as they have less cargo space. But, if they're also restricting your checked luggage, it starts to get... difficult.

Though, with the one carry-on planes, you can usually gate check the extra stuff, so that is an alternative.