You'd cancel a holiday because you have to put your hand bags in the hold for one sector?
Emphatically, YES! I trusted AA to carry stuff in the hold. I then found myself watching my entire baggage take off without me because I couldn't cross DFW in 8 mins.
An assured connection.
They, the staff on duty, then told me it was impossible for my bags to fly without me. L
ars.
Remember, I've landed from the trans-Atlantic, and had possession of my hold baggage for more than a few minutes.
There were my bags, 20 hours into the journey, sitting at destination - where they'd been for several hours. Unattended, and in public place. They had in them the total collection of old photos, that I couldn't get in the cabin. I'd just given in on the difficulties, and trusted someone - just that one time.