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If you have traveled by air in 2008, how many times have you been forced to gate check a legal-sized carry-on bag?
Never
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What’s the average total weight of your carry-on items?
3 pounds or less
4-7 pounds
8-10 pounds
11-12 pounds
13-15 pounds
16-20 pounds
21-22 pounds (10kg int’l limit)
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Wednesday
20Aug

"It's you or your bags"

That’s essentially what the pilot of an under-fueled jetliner told his passengers:


Moments before their plane was due to take off, passengers on a flight to Crete were issued with an extraordinary ultimatum.

The captain told them the plane did not have enough fuel to carry all of them and their luggage.

They were told that if they wanted to fly with their bags, 70 passengers out of 151 would have to be booted off. - dailymail.co.uk





Reader Comments (1)

Three days later, once they had spent hundreds of pounds on clothes and toiletries, the first of two suitcases finally showed up.

If these words do not change your behaviour to travel with one bag, then you are well and truly misguided

August 20, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterMike Bailey

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