TORONTO – With the busy summer travel season set to take flight, ********** is about to begin clamping down on carry-on ******* to ensure it meets regulations.

Starting next Monday at Toronto’s Pearson International Airport, ******* staff will be stationed at both check-in and security checkpoints to ensure carry-on bags meet size and weight requirements.

Bags that meet the *******’s carry-on dimensions will receive a red tag, which the ******* says will help reduce wait times at security and “help avoid flight delays caused by larger bags being checked at the gate.”

********** (TSX:AC.B) says carry-on bags which exceed the regulations will need to be checked and “standard fees will apply.”

The ******* says if passengers get to security and need to check a bag that exceeds size limits, they will receive a special card to get quickly back to a check-in agent, and then on to the departure gate.

Transport Canada rules allow passengers to carry on two unchecked items.

********** specifies that a personal item can include a backpack, briefcase or laptop computer measuring up to 16 by 33 by 43 centimetres and a standard item such as a suitcase measuring up to 23 by 40 by 55 centimetres including wheels and handles.

Those travelling with an infant on their lap can carry on an additional standard article.

The ******* began charging a $25 checked-bag fee last fall on its lowest-class domestic flights and on flights to and from the Caribbean and Mexico. ********** has charged for a traveller’s first checked bag on U.S.-Canada transborder routes since 2011.

The ******* says the tagging program will expand progressively to other airports across the country through June.