After 36+ years with an airline your comments are interesting.
Those of you who don't like it and think you pay too much are usually the worst offenders. You whine and blame everything bad on someone else because that's your nature...whiney and irresponsible. And no...you're not likely to travel on trains because you want fast just as much as you want cheap. And do you really think you can carry whatever you want on a train or bus too?
To those of you who approve, I thank you on behalf of all airline employes trying to do their job under so much negative press, as well as all the passengers who don't try to hog the overhead and know better than to overpack to begin with.
And oh, by the way. A number of overseas carriers have been limiting carry on luggage for decades and are far more stringent than American carriers are.
You don't like paying extra fees? Drive your car. Gas prices are going back up again now and that will be another griping point for you, but you at least will be able to take all the bags you can fit in your trunk, or cartop carrier, or the back seat with the kids, the dog, the cat, the coolers, the bags of snacks . . .

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