Before I get into my real topic let's talk about a dumb, diamond commercial. The ad shows a man asking a woman to marry him in an airplane. I can't impress upon all of you enough, an airplane is not a romantic place. Unless a commercial airplane has significant meaning to your relationship you should never, ever, ever, never ask someone to marry you on an airplane.
I feel better knowing one of you may actually listen to me.
Anyway, I want to mention a few issues with carrying luggage. When you check your bags there are a few problems people generally worry about: lost bags, long waits at baggage claim, and TSA agents sniffing your delicates (am I the only one that worries about that?).
If you carry-on all your luggage this means you will have 2 bags, usually. If you are able to find space on the airplane for both, consider yourself lucky. Another hassle to consider is that on any layover, you need to schlep your second carry-on between flights. If you are forced to gate-check you have a special level of hell to deal with while deplaning, jet bridge luggage pick-up. As everyone is deplaning, the gate checked bags get dropped in the jet bridge. The passengers whose bags are getting delivered here must wait in the narrow space for their carry-on where they form 2 lines up the sides of the jet bridge. Thus leaving a narrow aisle for the other passengers to depart. Once the bags are placed on the jet bridge the waiting passengers then need to walk against the flow of deplaning people like salmon swimming upstream for their spawning (minus the bears waiting to eat you). I recently experienced this and was convinced waiting at the luggage carousel is a picnic.
I definitely understand carrying everything when you are being charged $25 for the first piece of checked baggage. The choice comes down to which hassle you are most willing to deal with on your trip.
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