Skift Take
It was all with the best of intentions.
The new Cabin OK baggage proposal, introduced by the International Air Transport Association (IATA) during its Annual General Meeting in Miami, has ballooned from a modest proposal on the optimization of overhead bin space into a muddle of passenger dismay and confusion, then escalated to turbulence in a tea cozy.
In the most recent escalation, Sen. Charles Schumer blew the whistle on the industry, demanding that airlines scrap the proposal immediately, before it gets out of hand.
“Enough already!” Schemer told the Associated Press. “They charge a fee for peanuts, for leg room, for just about anything.” The senator was also concerned over the well-being of the luggage industry as a result of this proposal, saying: “Luggage companies have made carry-on bags and now, all of a sudden, millions of them won’t fit.”
For its part, IATA attributes all of this hullabaloo to basic misunderstandings by the press covering the story. To set the record straight it issued a second press release, addressing the common misconceptions.
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