I never wanted to gate-check my carry-on in the first place.
On a recent Austrian Airlines flight from Valencia, Spain, to Vienna, I was asked to gate-check my carry-on bag. I'd traveled with the same bag many times before, but its dimensions slightly exceeded Austrian's published limits, a reminder that many European airlines enforce carry-on rules more strictly than I've become accustomed to.
It seemed like a minor inconvenience at the time. Instead, it meant spending three days of my five-night trip to Vienna for the Eurovision Song Contest without most of the clothes I'd packed.
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