Why I refused to check my carry-on bag for an Air Canada flight to Newfoundland.

[Ron Evers]

My camera gear was in my carry-on & when we got to boarding @ Toronto I was told I would have to check it, as the flight was full & no room for it in the cabin. I explained it had expensive fragile equipment inside so I could not check it. I was told to remove the fragile stuff & check it. I refused & took the bag with me onto the plane to find 80% of the overhead bins empty.

After the return flight from Newfoundland my suitcase came off the carousel missing a wheel & the corner of the bag mushy.

My wife's bag was also caved in.

 

[tecboy]

Time for you to spend a lot more and much more durable case.

 

[SCraig]

Agreed. And for the same reason. I won't check my camera equipment, it's too fragile. I had a checked bag come back to me beat all to pieces, and had my camera been in there it to would have been beat to pieces.

 

[ZombiesniperJr]

Was your gear in?

 

[tirediron]

You flew Air Canada and that's the worst that happened? I'd be singing Hallelujah!

 

[Ron Evers]

Was your gear in?

Not in that checked bag but in a camera bag inside my carry-on.

 

[SquarePeg]

We had this happen to us on several flights last year. The airline asked for, and in one case insisted, on people gate checking their carry-on items only for us to get on board and find at least a third of the overhead bins were empty. Several different airlines. On the one trip where I had a small roller bag full of camera gear, I told him I would have to remove all of my camera gear before I would give them my bag and the FA rudely told me just to "go ahead and get on".