With airlines trying their best to make flying as unpleasant an experience as possible (I know I’m late chiming in on this) I did find this interesting while flying back from Seattle.  It seems that as long as your carry-on has soft sides (and therefore can be crushed into any shape) it can be as large as possible.  When I travel (which you don’t really want to fly with me- I’m unbearable) I try to go with the fewest number of items possible.  It becomes a game- Do I really need to pack 7 shirts since I’m bound to buy one or two at the event?

What was interesting was the number of people who had three or four carry-ons but then they just piled it all into one large bag (think IKEA shopping bag) and that became their “carry-on”.  This was a carry-on the size of normal piece of luggage.  Silly thing was looking at what people were “carrying on”  all I could think of was – maybe I should have brought Tink it seemed like a lot of this luggage was about the size of a classic Mini.