Another Dulles No-Check Baggage Victory
At the Dulles Airport check-in for my flight on Austrian Airlines to Vienna, I drew the agent having a bad day.
He wanted me to check my European legal sized luggage (smaller than domestic) and told my co-worker her purse counted as her only carry-on. He didn’t know I never check my bags.
Pulling a Jedi Mind Trick, I used a “Look at all my passport stamps” to show I flew enough to call his legal carry-on size bluff.
Then I hid my laptop bag down the counter until I walked away. Best yet, at the gate, I walked around him as he stopped another for bringing a roll-aboard and a laptop.
And guess what? We were flying a 767 with American sized overhead bins!
So a note to those headed to Vienna via Dulles: Pull a Wayan travel trick, store your bags with friends when you check in to avoid the Austrian Airlines Baggage Nazis.
Good thing you checked yours. I just flew to Zurich and my luggage made it the day after I got there. However, on international flights aren’t you allowed two carry-ons anyway? In any case, I am too gay to have only packed enough for a carry-on. :) I’ll learn one of these days.
How did you like Vienna? I went there as well on my vacation. Beautiful city.
Um, Carrie, I didn’t (and never would) be so pedestrian as to check my bags. Ever.
In fact, as a result of America’s War On Moisture, I fly without liquid toiletries so I do not need to check or loose my civilization threatening toothpaste.
I just buy a tube when I land. Surprisingly to many, toothpaste is everywhere I want to be.
Toothpaste is one of those things that makes a place feel like home. Thank god America is slowly doing away with liquids on airlines – It’s so reassuring that people will not be using toothpaste and hand gels on airplanes anymore.
It keeps America safe.