Regional jet squeeze
August 19, 2008
Frank@OBOW in Luggage

Cranky Flier reviewed his ride on the relatively new Embraer 190 hybrid regional jet and found the bins on the smallish side:


“The agent made an announcement that this was one of JetBlue’s “express” aircraft. (I don’t think they call it that, and if anyone over there is reading this, they might not be too happy.) But the point was that the overhead bins were smaller and wouldn’t fit the bags that you can fit on a regular-sized aircraft. I just had a backpack and a garment bag, but my fiancee had a roller that she thought she’d try to fit…


Once onboard, the roller bag did fit, but it only fit sideways and her bag was relatively thin so it barely made it. Unfortunately for my garment bag, the bins were short enough to prevent me from fitting the bag on top of other bags.That wasn’t good.”


Getting gate-checked is no fun. Pushing the luggage size envelope is increasingly unadvisable.
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