ON a recent Delta flight from Westchester County, in New York, to Columbus, Ohio, Gregg Hamilton, a retired real estate agent, was determined not to pay to check his bag. But he didn’t want to deal with the usual carry-on kerfuffle either: bolting toward the gate to be among the first to board, racing up and down the aisle to find a spot for his bag and trying to create space in the already-jammed overhead bins. Instead he, and a handful of others, avoided that mess entirely by taking advantage of an apparent loophole in the system…

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