What happens if your carry-on is deemed too large at the gate?

[ozbeachbabe]

I'm flying with a bag that is a touch over the carry-on requirements of the airline I'm on (Air Berlin). I've flown with it on QF and BA with no one so much as batting an eyelid. However, I'm wondering what would happen if the gate agent deemed the bag too large? Unlike my other flights with this bag I've checked in online so I haven't got the tacit approval of a checkin agent. Could you be denied boarding?

It's not the tacit aporoval of the checkin agent you need but that of the cabin crew as it's their train set.

I dount it would be put on another flight as a standard practise as that would be a security risk.

With only exceptional circumstances, all airline initiated, will a bag not travel on the same flight as the pax.

A passenger can not voluntarily elect to travel on a flight & stipulate their bags to go on another flight.

Checked baggage may not make the same flight a pax is on if there's a tight connection due to a late inbound connecting flight.

For what its worth, having read Air Berlin's Carry on Rules I decided to check my carry on bag just in case. When we landed at TXL I was one of the first off and stood by the carousel watching folk walking past me with everything including the kitchen sink as their carry on. You live and learn.

The law may sleep but it never dies.

No, because that would make it easy for would be terrorist to sneak something on to a plane which they are not flying on if it was a pretty much guarentee.

It would be impossible to predict whether a bag confiscated at the gate will make the flight or not so as such would not be deemed a security risk.

Most airlines are not going to put a put an oversize carry on bag in the hold if it would cause a delay a flight so it would go on the next flight.

 

[JBH]

Changi Airport now employ 'baggage attendant's' who hover outside the departures gate door where your passport/borading pass are first checked to specifically target passagers with oversized baggage before they step airside.

A family in front of me recently were (rightly) intercepted and ushered back to the nearby check-in desk.

 

[hossein_au]

I'm flying with a bag that is a touch over the carry-on requirements of the airline I'm on (Air Berlin). I've flown with it on QF and BA with no one so much as batting an eyelid. However, I'm wondering what would happen if the gate agent deemed the bag too large? Unlike my other flights with this bag I've checked in online so I haven't got the tacit approval of a checkin agent. Could you be denied boarding?

I had a couple of Air Berlin flights about 3 weeks ago. In each case I noticed there were passengers waiting at the aircraft door with their larger-than-cabin-size bag to be checked in. This is identical to what you see on most Alaska Air flights. The passengers received their bags on disembarking the plane. Although in every case I was flying smaller planes (Dash-8, ATR72, etc). I am not sure what happens in the case of larger planes.

You may want to check with the check-in counter staff, because on Air France (again about 3 weeks ago) I saw some people with hand luggage that were tagged as such and therefore no question asked upon boarding.

 

[wombatpatties]

If your bag is to big, check it in.

Please don't be one of those people who we all see trying to wedge in a clearly oversized bag, and look like a fool.

I totally agree with you "vec". If everybody had luggage a tad over, the plane would never get off the ground.....(no doubt there will
be plenty of "smart" answers" and "correct weight ratio" answers to this reply.

Rules are Rules, & since joining this site, I have read with much annoyance, the amount of rule breakers who think airlines are for the lawless travellers.

How about an exclusive holiday airline, a business airline, and an airline for the do-what-u-like-crowd?

 

[IrishPete]

In June I flew from Belfast International Airport to Birmingham with Easyjet, who are a budget airline and allow 10kg carry-on for free, with strict dimensions. On the way out of Belfast no-one checked the bag size or weight. On the way out of Birmingham they checked the size, but not the weight. As they charge an arm and a leg for checked in bags, I was surprised they weren't stricter.

 

[bass_ke]

Easy jet are surprising, I did Napoli - Milan with them and try didn't bat an eyelid at the above mentioned Crumpler Karachi outpost complete with Laptop, 2 slr bodies, multiple lenses and all the other associated garbage that comes with it.

Technically when empty it fits most carry in dimensions, it just tends to stretch and be rather heavy when fully packed.

I don't pack it thy heavy anymore and do check it when not using it for camera gear

 

[MoolahQ]

I dount it would be put on another flight as a standard practise as that would be a security risk.

With only exceptional circumstances, all airline initiated, will a bag not travel on the same flight as the pax.

You know it's "just a bit big" and you have gotten away many times. As you're cramming your bag in overhead have you noticed the glares and stares from those of us who have the common sense to either check the thing in and pay for the excess or just get a smaller bag? Probably not.

I have seen a few pax hold up flights when the cabin crew look on in amazement and wonder how they got past check-in without being seen. Their bags were collected by ground crew and tagged on the airbridge but what a time waste.

I don't care what your status, consideration for your fellow pax and the crew is more important than thinking you can put one over.

Grrrrr

 

[Blinky]

It happened to me once in Perth. The bag was within the dimension range, but was way too heavy. I deserved the bag being shunted into the hold and learnt a lesson. I have never tried to carry on an over-weight bag ever again.

 

[IrishPete]

Nothing compares with the metre-long smoked fish wrapped in newspaper that someone brought as hand luggage on my flight from Bangkok to Perth in the late 1990s. Fortunately it was "detected" (the smell was everywhere) before take off, and removed.

 

[Ultimobo]

I was in the Baltimore BWI departure lounge for a United domestic to SFO - and watched as a elderly (upper-class appearance) couple struggled with two giant suitcases they were trying to inveigle as carry-on - from my impression most of the staff were prepared to look the other way knowing that no-one wanted to pay $50 a bag or whatever, but one girl - who had been making announcements with an Australian accent - called them on it - well ! they argued left-right and centre - it's all our emergency medicines we need during the flight (yeah - a portable heart-lung machine - NOT) - all BS - they wrangled with her expecting her to fold but she held her ground - I was silently cheering her on - 'go Aussie!'

 

[ashleyn]

Changi Airport now employ 'baggage attendant's' who hover outside the departures gate door where your passport/borading pass are first checked to specifically target passagers with oversized baggage before they step airside.

A family in front of me recently were (rightly) intercepted and ushered back to the nearby check-in desk.

Good, should be more of it.

 

[Mal]

How Ryanair handles it...

http://metro.co.uk/2013/08/15/ryana...-afford-50-duty-free-carrier-bag-fee-3925766/