No, that's because in the US they're handling the international flights separately. It's also the reason why even when you have a layover, you need to clear customs.

Domestic flights in the US are like busses/trains elsewhere. Most people fly without a checked bag

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NamTaf 25 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Most of the world handles international flights separately without needing to do that unless it is an international-domestic connection.

However I agree that in purely domestic airports I don't see how you'd prevent general public from accessing bags. Except India, wherein you need a booked flight to even enter the airport.

	▲	kgwgk 8 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		> I don't see how you'd prevent general public from accessing bags. People are routinely prevented from being where they are not supposed to be. Whether you put the baggage pick-up point in a publicly accessible area or on a restricted area is a design choice.

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thrownthatway an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

> Domestic flights in the US are like busses/trains elsewhere. Most people fly without a checked bag

That sounds like bullshit to me.

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hgoel 26 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Most domestic flights are short duration trips, a week's worth of clothes fit in carry-on suitcase, and the other stuff (laptop etc) can go in a backpack.

In all my domestic flights in the past year they've had to ask people at the gate to volunteer their carry-on suitcase to be checked into the hold because they didn't expect to have enough room in the overhead bins.

I usually volunteer because: it's free, I don't mind waiting at the pickup, and it's slightly more comfortable when getting off the plane.

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monkeywork 33 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I don't know if we are the level of "most people" but I'd say we are defintely at a "signficant percentage of ppl". Due to cost of checked luggage the popularity of one bag carry on flying has exploded.

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objclxt 33 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

> That sounds like bullshit to me.

Have you taken a US domestic flight? Everyone wants to bring their massive roll-ons into the cabin, nobody wants to check if they can avoid it.

	▲	warmedcookie 13 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Indeed, although today I got on a plane at LaGuardia and they made me check my carry on at the gate even though there was plenty of space in the overhead bins ( 60% capacity flight, about half of us had to do this) so YMMV. No idea why they made us do that, but I had to grab my bag at the luggage claim.