Originally Posted by
EM42
the brompton bicycle folded should just always go where the baby strollers or mobility devices ie folded wheelchairs, walkers go. there is a specific area where these are kept inside the cabin until passengers with babies, old folks, persons with disabilities disembark to claim them. basically should be allowed checked-in as a stroller.
I'm not really sure about the usage of "should" in the above passage. The reason that wheel chairs and strollers are gate checked is not because they inherently belong in the cabin, but because people use them to get to the gate.
Unless you are using your brompton to get to the gate. Now that would cut the "estimate walking times" down to size.
The fact that people can carry bikes onto a plane makes a nonsense of the ridiculous airport rules. That at one departure point people are having irradiating body scans, and at another people are carrying on 3 feet of metal tubing while bound for the same destination is crazy.
(Mezzo is going into the hold tomorrow morning, lightly clad, but not sky-clad)