Comments on: Airline carry-ons part deux… http://ben-johnson.org/blog/archives/2006/07/171/ I hate Illinois Nazis... Tue, 06 Jan 2009 10:19:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Ben http://ben-johnson.org/blog/archives/2006/07/171/#comment-2389 Ben Thu, 17 Aug 2006 16:11:18 +0000 http://ben-johnson.org/blog/archives/2006/07/171/#comment-2389 Easy. If you feel the need to go shopping at the airport while you're killing time, leave room in your carry-on bag to accomodate your purchases. If you can't fit it in, any reasonable store should be able to provide shipping services either gratis or for a nominal fee. Of course, my home airport is Chicago-O'Hare, which doesn't have a mall like Pittsburgh and Philadelphia do. Another part of the problem is the wheeled bags which look like they're the standard 21" rollaboard that would fit in an overhead bin, but has weird protrusions that keep it from fitting with the longest dimension matching the depth of the bin. This is especially an issue on single-aisle planes with a lot of business travelers. Some lout comes aboard with a big that just won't quite fit in long-ways, so they have to turn it sideways, which ends up taking the space of 1.5-2 bags. Easy. If you feel the need to go shopping at the airport while you’re killing time, leave room in your carry-on bag to accomodate your purchases. If you can’t fit it in, any reasonable store should be able to provide shipping services either gratis or for a nominal fee.

Of course, my home airport is Chicago-O’Hare, which doesn’t have a mall like Pittsburgh and Philadelphia do.

Another part of the problem is the wheeled bags which look like they’re the standard 21″ rollaboard that would fit in an overhead bin, but has weird protrusions that keep it from fitting with the longest dimension matching the depth of the bin. This is especially an issue on single-aisle planes with a lot of business travelers. Some lout comes aboard with a big that just won’t quite fit in long-ways, so they have to turn it sideways, which ends up taking the space of 1.5-2 bags.

]]> By: Trainwrecka http://ben-johnson.org/blog/archives/2006/07/171/#comment-2363 Trainwrecka Sun, 13 Aug 2006 18:28:15 +0000 http://ben-johnson.org/blog/archives/2006/07/171/#comment-2363 Well without shopping bags what will that do to the major airports with clothing and other retail stores? good points though! Well without shopping bags what will that do to the major airports with clothing and other retail stores?

good points though!

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