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PSA: Frontier Airlines is Cracking Down on Personal Item Size
December 10, 2022 at
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The Frontier gate agents are strictly enforcing personal size at the gate. All personal items must fit in the metal bin at the gate without any pressure or force. These agents are a hired by a third party company and receive commission for each bag charged at the gate.
Personal item dimensions are 14 x 18 x 8. If your personal item does not fit without force they will charge you $100 for a "carry on" at the gate (each direction). Pro tip: you can purchase the carry on on the frontier website for $60 instead, as long as you can make the purchase before the door closes. The gate agents don't like this because they lose their commission. Be careful this holiday season.
https://www.reddit.com/r/travel/c...down_hard/
Personal item dimensions are 14 x 18 x 8. If your personal item does not fit without force they will charge you $100 for a "carry on" at the gate (each direction). Pro tip: you can purchase the carry on on the frontier website for $60 instead, as long as you can make the purchase before the door closes. The gate agents don't like this because they lose their commission. Be careful this holiday season.
https://www.reddit.com/r/travel/c...down_hard/
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That seems like the size of under the seat to me ...
Unfortunately over the years too many people have taken advantage of "carry on" and it slows down the boarding process. Just like sooner or later stores and air lines will have to start cracking down on "service dogs"
I think you have it backwards. Over the years the airlines decided to take advantage of people by charging for checked bags. Now I don't know about you, but most people naturally don't want to pay these exorbitant fees.
Women who would have a hardshell carryon that never fit in the overhead AND a laptop bag AND a huge purse AND put them all in the overhead taking up ALL the space.
I can't tell you how many times overhead was always full and people who were late to the gate or had late boarding had to check their bags.
Yes, it's airlines trying to make more money, but at the same time I think travelers definitely contributed to airlines changing their policies.
If flights were only 50% full, there was generally room for everyone, but for full flights it was a NIGHTMARE.
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I got stuck in Denver Co and boarded/un-boarded 3 flights in a row due to some technical issues.
If you have a connecting flight in Denver, CO, they enforce this strict personal item thing more than in any airport. Personally experienced multiple times!
I always flew with backpack and even with a baby!
Frontier sucks, the folks who make you fit your personal item in that slim metal bin are very rude/mean and don't care even if it is a senior citizen where their kids booked a ticket for them and they weren't carrying a credit/debit card to pay for that carry on at gate when her bag was big by an inch or so and wouldn't fit in it. I have been avoiding Frontier since then!
PACKING Dimensions: 20.25" x 14.0" x 8.0", OVERALL Dimensions: 23.0" x 14.2" x 11.0"
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Women who would have a hardshell carryon that never fit in the overhead AND a laptop bag AND a huge purse AND put them all in the overhead taking up ALL the space.
I can't tell you how many times overhead was always full and people who were late to the gate or had late boarding had to check their bags.
Yes, it's airlines trying to make more money, but at the same time I think travelers definitely contributed to airlines changing their policies.
If flights were only 50% full, there was generally room for everyone, but for full flights it was a NIGHTMARE.
You completely missed my point. Why do you think that person has an overpacked carry-on, laptop bag, purse, etc, all shoved in the overhead? Hint: to avoid all the bag fees.
You might remember flights before Covid, but I can remember flights before baggage fees. And even on packed flights, I never had to worry about overhead space. Why, you might ask? Because a lot of people simply checked their bags... for free.
And to blame people for not wanting to pay for baggage seems missed placed when the airlines started the whole mess in the first place by creating all these added fees. And no one in their right mind would have thought, "Oh, that's not going to affect cabin space." But now you're so brainwashed into thinking that it's normal that you think they should also charge carry-on fees to control what's in the overhead. This is exactly how heated car seat and remote start subscription fees are going to get normalized.
Edit: I'm not really referring to budget/a al carte airlines.