Thank you Alaska, for a fantastically entertaining past few rides,

I have been doing some out of state travel on you guys as of late. Couple weeks ago you started strictly enforcing the new carry-on baggage size limits and it has been pure gold watching the Pax board. Watching them get pulled out just before they are getting their ticket scanned and lead to the sizer has been fantastic. Some of the folks further back in the line see the first sacrificial bags and start becoming concerned. Others are too engaged in their cell phones to care. The sherpa's hear this and some look a tad concerned. But most don't give a #@$%. You know the sherpas; the pax with the bulging ginormous carry on, the carry-on sized "purse" and back pack the size of a toddler. What do you mean these three bags cant go on? This is my purse. That is just a little backpack. My carry-on worked at Southwest!

This is why I have to sit up front

Lady, if you walk around all day with a purse this sized.....I'll eat my flipping hat!

At GEG a few days ago, the gate agents started walking around before boarding and having pax w/large bags come up to the sizer. Within 30 or so minutes they had a solid 20 bags already on the pile. Folks were livid, some hid by another gate, then scampered over just as their rows were called and tried boarding with their "plus size" bags tucked behind and on the opposite side of the gate agent. No go. Abort! They too were pulled off to the side by another agent and made to do the walk of shame to the sizer. When they'd get there they'd even try the old "hulk smash" trick. No good, onto the pile of bags this ridiclous behemoth would go; onto the airplane the grumpy pax would sulkily slink.

I love it. When I boarded last, there was a reasonable amount of baggage in the overhead; pax boarded and deplaned quickly..........and the reactions! Good lord I have never seen so many man/women children in my life. Reactions were from Douche-esque pushy old dudes, to tweeting millennial to, "this is illegal!." Good for you guys sticking to your guns! It's been flipping' hilarious!