Timelies,

Why the hell aren't most of the users on vacation today. I came in expecting a slow day and the phones have been almost non-stop.

Some airports are more relaxed than others. At the Airport here you can take on 2 items only and w/a garmet bag, a laptop bag, and a backpack they'd make you check 1 bag.

I've seen the gate agents make passengers repack their stuff so it's two items. Including making women put their purses in one of their carryons so they have 2 items.

I think that they'll make you check the garment bag.

Yeah, somehow I think a garment bag would be harder to get away with than those standard black wheel carry-ons, since they can't fit under the seat and usually get put in that special closet up front.

On the other hand, I find that if you look supremely unperturbed by what you are carrying, they don't look twice.

Signed, Once carried home 11 bottles of French wine in my carry-on luggage.

I think it depends on the size of the plane, too -- when I flew to SF, twice everyone was asked to check their bags on the walkway because the overhead compartments wouldn't be able to handle them since the flights were full. But the nice thing was they were right there waiting when you got off the plane.

I seem to be doing a lot of work up front to make this trip as trivial as possible. But coming into Jamaica and sailing through the airport is very seductive. In a pinch, I could do the purse in the garment bag thing, I hope. I mean, it's only three days of clothes, plus dresses for the wedding.

I miss flying prop planes. The loading/unloading is so much easier.

I think it depends on the size of the plane, too

I think newer planes tend to have bigger overhead compartments. At least for the 777 and the yet-to-enter-service 787.

36" means all three dimensiions. So for example 2X2X9 would 36 total.

I think it depends on the airport and on the security guard. In the Tucson airport, I had a backpack and another bag that my laptop sleeve fit into, but I had taken my laptop out of the bag in order to be ready for the xray machine, and the first security guard, the one whose only job is making sure you are a ticketed passanger, wouldn't let me past her until I put it back in the bag so that I only had two items.

Bitch.

I mean, they certainly aren't going to make you check a laptop or camera.

Ha! If it gets too crowded, they can make you check everything. My ex was once forced to choose between checking his laptop and checking a Zero Halliburton case with our camera equipment in it. He picked laptop because he needed to finish a presentation. We never saw the cameras again.