No status? Check your carry on bag being enforced.

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I have a data point of several flights to different destinations in the past week, and on those flights Group 4 + 5 pax have been made to gatecheck their carry on bags (rollerboard only), which is setting a worrying trend.

Any other data points? Insights as to why?

Winter is often worse for cabin space due to roller + backpack + jacket (potentially) for each pax, but it's interesting that it's essentially the non-status groups they're making do it. Sounds a lot like AA, UA, DL....
 
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