Look out! Airlines are setting a carry-on luggage trap

Carriers will charge more baggage fees in 2023. But that's not all.

The ticket agent looked at me as if I was hiding something when I checked in for a recent flight from Nicosia, Cyprus, to Tel Aviv, Israel.

"Show me your bags," she commanded.

I rolled my regulation-size carry-on across the tiled floor so she could see it.

"On the scale!" 

Nine kilos. She shook her head slowly. "You will have to check it."

The agent jabbed a…