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United Airlines and US Airways recently announced they will join American Airlines and start charging passengers to check a first bag. That means a lot more people will start packing a lot more stuff into their carry-on bags.
“Not so fast” say the airlines. They’re cracking down on over-sized carry-on bags by posting staff at the security checkpoint lines in an effort to ‘head ‘em off at the pass.’
Find out more in my Well-Mannered Traveler column on MSNBC.com. 
June 26th, 2008 at 7:28 am
And it’s about time too. I actually think that they should specify the maximum height, width and depth of a bag so all bags go wheels first into the overhead compartment. There is enough room in those compartments for every economy passenger to bring on a 20″x14″x10″ rollaboard. Anything larger than that needs to be in the cargo hold. The number of people I’ve seen bringing aboard 26″x17×11″ suitcases and taking up an entire compartment for themselves is astounding, and just bad manners.