GateCheck

27d ago

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Is Southwest getting stricter lately?

Flew out of MIA and had a weird experience at the bag drop. My Samsonite hit exactly 50 lbs on the scale. I was actually proud of that. Gave my wife a high five. Then the agent pulled out a tape measure and checked the dimensions too. It was right at the max. She basically said...

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20d ago

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“Get here 3 hours early” … cool, where’s the gate agent?

Show up 3 hours before departure like a responsible adult. Gate area? Empty. No agent. No announcements. Just all of us sitting there staring at the counter like it’s going to magically staff itself. Love how the burden is always on passengers to be early, but somehow that...

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21d ago

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Paid for extra legroom aisle… got moved to a middle at check in

Flying tonight on an extra legroom fare and specifically picked an aisle at the front of the section. I like being close to the bathroom and that’s literally why I chose it. Checked in and they had automatically moved me to a middle seat toward the back of the extra legroom...

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21d ago

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Put my surname twice on my Ryanair booking… am I screwed?

I’ve got a flight this weekend and just realized my phone autofilled my details wrong. It put my surname in both the first name and last name fields, so now it shows as “firstname surname surname”. Missed the 48 hour window and they want £115 to change the name, which feels...

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16d ago

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Paid for upfront seats and carry ons, still forced to gate check

Trying to understand this. We paid for carry ons and seats in Groups 1 and 2, boarded early, and still got forced to check our bags. They said it was a full flight. What doesn’t make sense is that later boarding groups were allowed to bring theirs on. If overhead space was the...

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