Carry on or not ?

[lano]

Like Ashleyn, I also have a regular cross country job. According to my employer I am meant to travel with all my equipment and tools (quite a lot of which isn't carry-on compatible: Geologist's hammer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia).
However, I recently gave up checking in my backpack with all my equipment, I've started using carry-on and I don't think I'll be looking back. I can easily live off what I can fit in my 7kg baggage allowance for 2 or 3 weeks, so I now store my equipment on site and I've decided that my company can courier it to me if I'm required elsewhere.
Fantic125: The differing climates don't affect me much as I travel from a cold climate (checking in wearing my jacket/coat, etc) to a hot climate (where I take off my jacket as I get off the plane). Traveling hot to cold wouldn't work as well though.

 

[JohnK]

I would never attempt carry on only for international trips.

For domestic I usually have my laptop bag and a carry (sports) bag. I will check it in most of the time unless I am really desperate for an earlier flight and I have been knocked back at check-in.

Yesterday this bag was 12 kg so impossible to take as carry on. Arrived into BNE ~30 minutes late and was at the carousel with ~20 minutes to go for next airtrain. Bag was out after about 20 or so bags and still 12-13 minutes to go for next airtrain. Was inside the train carriage with plenty of time to spare.

Not worth trying to reduce the amount I carry. Another thing is I do not want to be walking around the terminal/lounge with 2 bags ~7kg each. I can easily sacrifice the 5-10 minutes waiting as most times I can wait in the lounge after a flight.