All those carry-on bags? Check ‘em!

AS an aviation security professional, I am opposed to carry-on bags, period [“An Overhaul Due for Oversized Bags in Overstuffed Bins?” Travel Insider, Feb. 26]. Carry-on bags should be the exception rather than the rule. Passengers should be allowed only one carry-on, not larger than is needed for a laptop computer or for food or medications needed during the flight.

Airlines should unequivocally guarantee that both you and your possessions will be delivered together.

If the FAA makes a new rule about anything, it should establish minimum space requirements for each passenger, based on the size of an American adult.

DAVE KUPER

Sunnyvale

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THANK you for your article on carry-on luggage. The first thing that comes to mind is that if the airlines would not lose luggage, more people would check it.

My husband, Bob, and I travel internationally and take a carry-on and a purse or, in his case, a computer. We see people getting on the plane with all that plus shopping bags etc. That shouldn’t be allowed.

BETTY BINNS

St. Louis