re: People bring so much stuff on planes

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I love how every person needs a wheeler bag…you can’t carry anything? It’s some clothes and shoes, pick it up it won’t kill you.

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But why would I?

I know I can carry a bag full of clothes and shoes. My bag has wheels. Why would I not roll it?

Do you feel the same about people who might use an auger instead of a post hole digger.

Nobody is wheeling they're bag because they're afraid of the weight. They're wheeling the bag because it's more convenient than carrying it.

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People bring so much stuff on planes

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If checking/retrieving a bag wasn't an absolute dumpster fire, I wouldn't drag it all myself.

I don't want to spend the extra 30+ minutes up front and an unknown (baggage handlers at Airport X on strike today?) amount of time after I arrive before I can be on my way? frick all that.

Usually, the only time I check a bag is if I'm traveling internationally. And absolutely not on a connecting US flight.

If air carriers GAF about their customers, they would make the bag drop/retrieval process cheap/free and crazy easy. It would make negotiating the airport easier, planingdeplaning faster and easier and make the whole experience less of a nightmare. But instead, the REALLY want that extra $25 from you.

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If air carriers GAF about their customers, they would make the bag drop/retrieval process cheap/free and crazy easy. It would make negotiating the airport easier, planingdeplaning faster and easier and make the whole experience less of a nightmare. But instead, the REALLY want that extra $25 from you.

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I think that only people who fly so infrequently don't realize how much of a headache this is, particularly if it's an airport with which you're unfamiliar.

It isn't conscious, but no matter how much you want to claim to not be "soft", having to navigate a new airport, wait for your luggage, orient yourself after fighting a horde of people, make your way to a now crowded pickup location, takes a toll on you. Yes, even the person reading this who has more to worry about. Your brain has to process all that information and it saps your energy whether you are aware of it or not.

And some airports have terrible bag claims...

MSY takes forever, slow and ridiculous AF.

PHX is excellent, Hobby is pretty good...

It looks like you're bringing too much on the plane if you had to stuff that under your seat and have no leg room left room for the flight.

First world probs

I always wore long pants and a polo for travel. Recently I got a few pairs of nice joggers that have become my go to travel pant. I can’t fathom wearing pajamas on an airplane but see it more and more these days. People are fricking slobs.

I carry on a paper Dorignac’s bag from 1983.

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We are a nation of fat slobs.

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I made the same observation on our trip to SC. I only fly once or twice a year but have noticed the amount of people being pushed around in wheelchairs by airport staff because they are fat has greatly increased.

Charge for carry-ons, make 2 check-in bags free......speeds up loading and unloading the plane.