Originally Posted by
GliderCFI
TSA got on me at an outstation recently about my 26" international roller bag. Dude try to claim it wouldn't fit in the machine because it has to be in a bin. Apparently the bins have RFID tags, and that's how they ID which ones to shoot sideways. Anyone else had them give grief over that? Seems absurd to me. Who cares if it doesn't have a tagged bin under it. Can you not manually grab it and pull if you need to?
Were you at TLH? Flew with a guy that had that issue there when they first started using the new, slow, pos machines. Their solution was drop it at ticket counter, gets run through luggage machine, then pulled and brought up jetway to him.