Travelers, Welcome to the Revolution in Overhead Bin Size

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3. I sure don't welcome it.

The big crush in carry-ons mostly was a result of the airlines squeezing passengers for checked bags. Cheap flights for $150 one way got a lot more expensive when airlines started tacking on 50% and more to check bags. Of COURSE they tried fitting everything into super-sized carry-ons. So these things, often heavier than the passengers themselves, would prove too much for the latches, fall onto the laps or heads of other passengers if the latches weren't up to the task. I've seen small children scream in pain as some carry-on suitcase full of heavy whatever suddenly bucked a latch and fell onto the child unfortunate enough to be sitting in the "wrong" seat.

This "solution" will only provide for far more weight to be stored into the overhead bins, with every defective latch (and you KNOW there always be some) a potential painful, or even crippling injury.

Here in Europe, it varies widely with the speed of delivery after landing, so that is an issue here as well. In small provincial airports, the bags are delivered fairly quickly, but in some larger airports, especially in France and Span, it can take up to 45 minutes or more. Even in Frankfurt, I once had to wait over an hour for my bags from Washington because some idiot put them on the wrong conveyor belt. No one on the flight from Kazakhstan seemed to want to take my bags home, but no airport worker seemed interested in finding out where they should have gone, either.