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Show lit m it it- - is- - it, is ji ii is is TRA VEL no Hand luggage comes in almost every size and shape these days. So do the excuses students use to try to sneak more of it aboard planes but now the airlines are getting tougher about restrictions Tina Lundberg of UVM with L.L. Bean Softies: bags, Ciaol(top) 7 t hen it comes to airplane trips, some people just can't get a grip on traveling light. Take the guy in San Diego who packed his squawking parrot in a Nike bag. Or Texas Tech senior Kim Trainor, who tried to slip a giant stuffed vulture on the plane (her boyfriend had won it at an amusement park), only to have to buy it a seat. In recent years, flight attendants have been waging the battle of the bulging baggage as passengers have been carrying on and on. Here's a partial list of excessives that Juliette Lenoir, vice president of the Association of Flight Attendants, has compiled: a four-fofig tree, a BMW drive shaft, a car door, seven projectors lugged by a college football team and a large model of the Nina, Pinta and Santa Maria. To get a handle on the situation, which was dangerous as well as annoying to other passengers, the Federal Aviation Administration put new regulations into effect last January limiting the number and size of carry-oitems. Each airline can set its own guidelines, but generally, most are permitting only two pieces of luggage which must fit under the seat, in the overhead compartment closet. or in the garment-ba- g Standards vary. TWA, for example, allows just one bag on board but does not consider a briefcase as carry-o- n luggage. American, on the other hand, does. On all carriers, a purse ot n PHOTOS BY ROBERT R McELROY 32 NEWSWEEK ON CAMPUS NEWSWEEK MAY 1988 |
