Opinions expressed here are the author’s alone, and have not been reviewed, approved or otherwise endorsed by any of these entities. On US domestic flights, if you board towards the end there's a good chance there's going to be no overhead space. non existing airberlin was a GREAT example for that, too heavy, you put that bag under the seat in frint of you and you suffer well with your feet space! Generally someone who has a top tier status flying in a premium cabin is not exactly a prime candidate for gate checking the bag, so I can't help but feel like the fact that you don't often get asked to gate check your bags is more to do with that, than any special sleight of hand.

when she got to our home airport, she reported it missing and how it occurred but it didn' t arrive.However, sometimes when flying certain regional jets you may have to wait on the jet bridge at the destination gate after you deplane to get your bag. Some check-in agents are like hawks, others turn a blind eye to the 'rules' even for the same flight. I fly often for work and the amount of times my flight has taken off late because no one will volunteer to gate check their obviously too large "carry on" suitcase is infuriating.

If you attempt to gate check a bag that violates an airline's weight and size requirements for checked bags, you also might be charged an additional fee.My guess would be that if LH does weigh them (which hasn't happened to me in my 15 or so intra-EU flights), it would be in the gate.

In a situation like this, you might be wondering — is the greater risk checking the bag and having it go missing or carrying it to the gate and finding out there's no room for your bag?

In my millions of miles of flying, I’ve been asked to gate check a bag maybe a handful of times, even though I pretty consistently exceed the carry-on allowance outside the United States (where 15 pound weight limits aren’t unusual).

Since i coulnd not proove that the camera was originally there, no insurance or compensation either. I was forced to get checked bag that fit in the overhead bin it has in the past, and this was no exception. But - the only time I've ever lost a bag - was on a domestic flight in the US and the tag was handwritten and went to Dallas rather than Seattle.The JL Childress Bright Red Gate Check Bag for Car Sears has been a go-to travel bag for parents for over a decade. It's just a case of a boarding gate staff member putting a tag in on your bag and giving it to a baggage handler to put in the cargo hold. We have never observed gate-checked bags for international, as we've never had them, and the normal jetways do not provide one with a good observation point. A lot of strollers get broken because they pop open en route and you have some baggage guy trying fold it back down.