Bilingual, the only explanation for your reply is that you're an ambulance-chasing trial lawyer who saw my thread title and was disappointed that it did not, in fact, deliver a recoverable action for you to feast upon. Why else would you spend time on these forums over the holidays to post similarly-helpful retorts for several complainants on a variety of carriers? Hmm? Did I nail it?
It's not a matter of space. As I mentioned earlier, the bag was small but dense. It would have easily fit under the seat in front of me, and it was smaller than most of the bags I brought on. In fact, I had no complaints from every other carrier I flew with in the last few weeks, from South African Air, Botswana Air, Aegean Air, and a small Botswanan carrier. I flew in everything from jumbo jets to 24-passenger prop planes to a bloody Cessna and not one person complained or commented. In fact, the only reason why VA even had reason to mention something about my bag is the fact that they weighed each and every carry-on prior to the check-in line (presumably in an attempt to recover fuel costs?). I'm aware of airlines checking bag size occasionally and I agree that this is reasonable given the limited carry-on luggage space (though it's never happened to me), but in all my years I've never encountered an airline that weighed every carry-on at check in.
Finally, I could have easily put the stuff into two bags; 10kg and 7kg, easily meeting the 1 carry-on item plus one backpack, purse, laptop conditions. And if you tell me that the 10kg bag was 3kg too much and that the $454 penalty was well-deserved (as did the VA ground crew), well buddy, you really need to find a new hobby besides kicking other people when they're down.
And if you're a trial lawyer, please die a sad, lonely death from a heart attack in the rain on a sidewalk, passed on by every on-looker who is too afraid to help you for fear of getting sued in this litigious society you and your blood-sucking ilk helped to create.
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