It's frustrating to read articles like this written by people who obviously don't travel much and therefore have no clue what they are talking about.<p>- Yes there are way fewer overhead bins than there are possible space for. This is a very well known thing to anyone who has ever boarded a plane.<p>- Not having carry on bags is an unworkable solution to anyone who ever has to connect anywhere, or values their time in any way.
- Checking bags adds a minimum of 20 minutes on either side of the flight in the best of cases, and when you have a delay and rebooking, not having checked bags will very often be the difference between you making the flight on the same day at all or not at all.
- The real problem, as any frequent flyer knows, is that airlines don't enforce their sizing guidelines. If they actually did, then a solid 30% of carry on bags would be refused at the gate because they are too large to fit properly in the bin and take up more space than should be allowed.