By trip-hop on Skatehive
For true serious low-budget and in my opinion crap, airlines, like Spirit what I am about to say is not true but for all the others that I have encountered it seems as though they are using tricky wording in an attempt to get people to pay to check luggage. https://vonbaer.com/cdn/shop/articles/personal-item-vs-carry-onab5586bf-1b1b-431f-a2fd-c5ecff203e29.jpg?v=1741948330 src I took the above image about a very informative article about the difference between a "personal item and a "carry on bag". They do a real good job of explaining the difference but these days in my travels I have found that there are many airlines, low-cost airlines in particular, that are intentionally tricky about how they word things which I believe is in an effort to have you trapped at the gate and forced to pay some extortionate amount of money to get your small bag on board. https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-G7lCxgi5V6I/Vuoc6Zlb08I/AAAAAAAANtI/AUXEmW1ndCk2UW4-sXuDHyAN923BF9PXg/s1600/spirit%2Bbag%2Bsize%2B2.jpg src