cabin luggage
Andy
compartments on international flights?
What really annoys me is when I get to my seat I find that the overhead
space corresponding to my seat number is filled with someone else's luggage,
usually because they have more than one piece. It's all very well for the
cabin crew to stow my luggage elsewhere, but not satisfactory if I need to
access it at times during the flight.
Andy
Craig Welch
You could always go to rec.travel.air and join in one of the
thousand-post threads on the topic.
Without any resolution ...
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Craig
RT
"Craig Welch" <cr...@pacific.net.sg> wrote in message
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My own method of resolving it is to use a legal sized carry-on item in the
form of a soft bag (it's a sort of soft brief case) and stow it under the
seat in front. Means I always have access to it without disturbing others
even if I'm in a window seat, eg. Overhead lockers are a PITA IMO - I let
others fight over them :-)
Charlie
wrote:
Well maybe not a complete solution, but enforcement of the regulation
(I use the term loosely) number of cabin hand luggage and size per
individual may help.
Hopefully checkin and cabin crew are not as blind in an emergency as
they seem to be when it comes to the hand carry items of many
individuals who have items larger than my bag that just fits the
gauge. Judging by the antics of some when lifting bags overhead, a
number are obviously heavier than they should be.
Charlie
John Ewing
"Andy" <sen...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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To my knowledge it is first in (and not necessarily best dressed) when
placing luggage in the lockers.
Try to get to the front of the queue when boarding is announced.
Must admit I do wish the airlines were a little stricter as far as the size
and quantity of carry-on items.
However this needs to be determined at check-in time so intended large
carry-on items can be reassigned to stowed luggage.
John
Graeme Cant
> "Craig Welch" <cr...@pacific.net.sg> wrote in message
>> Without any resolution ...
>
> My own method of resolving it is to use a legal sized carry-on item in the
> form of a soft bag (it's a sort of soft brief case) and stow it under the
> seat in front. Means I always have access to it without disturbing others
> even if I'm in a window seat, eg. Overhead lockers are a PITA IMO - I let
> others fight over them :-)
Absolutely. My solution too.
I guess you could get there so early you're the first on but that wd
take up too much of your life.
GC
>
>
Trevor Fenn
news:eb4ko6$2non$2...@otis.netspace.net.au:
There is no overhead space assigned to a given seat, you're exclusive
assigned space is under the seat in front of you.
Yagu
Personally, I avoid taking any bulky items such as hand luggage/duty
free anyway, simply to avoid the hassles and in order to get off the
a/c as quickly and efficiently as possible. If I do, like a laptop, it
goes under the seat in front of me, certainly not above me.
Yagu
Edward
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which goes up there, at the top, overhead bin thing. Above me.
All a matter of personal taste I suppose.
And lest peace and quiet be disturbed I never, tell my fellow pax what
they themselves should do.
HTH
Ned
Emjaye
> Must admit I do wish the airlines were a little stricter as far as the
> size and quantity of carry-on items.
My wife found out how strict that Qantas could be when at the gate the
woman there wouldn't allow her carryon to be, well, carried on. It just
fit in that cradle that they use to check luggage size, but it was about
20mm long. She had to remove all the crap from it and stow it on her
person or in her handbag.
Thing is, she was allowing other pax carrying obviously oversized laptop
bags to board with them, as they were in business or first class.
Since then, she's only ever flown UA when visiting overseas. Not that
Qantas has been missing her business...
Trevor Fenn
@yarwho.com.au:
> John Ewing wrote:
>
>> Must admit I do wish the airlines were a little stricter as far as the
>> size and quantity of carry-on items.
>
> My wife found out how strict that Qantas could be when at the gate the
> woman there wouldn't allow her carryon to be, well, carried on. It just
> fit in that cradle that they use to check luggage size, but it was about
> 20mm long.
Then it didn't fit, did it.
>
> Thing is, she was allowing other pax carrying obviously oversized laptop
> bags to board with them, as they were in business or first class.
>
> Since then, she's only ever flown UA when visiting overseas. Not that
> Qantas has been missing her business...
>
>
>
Class distiction is alive and well in the airline business :)
Charlie
>> My wife found out how strict that Qantas could be when at the gate the
>> woman there wouldn't allow her carryon to be, well, carried on. It just
>> fit in that cradle that they use to check luggage size, but it was about
>> 20mm long.
>
>Then it didn't fit, did it.
Why would anyone put oversize and overweight bags in the locker above
them! Much better to have it fall on someone else!
Charlie
RT
From the Oz today (referring to results of new 'critical' airport security
measures in UK):
"Some flights were cancelled and tens of thousands of passengers were
delayed as airport officials banned computers, cameras, iPods, duty free
goods and even spectacle cases from being carried as hand luggage.
It was the [first] time such severe restrictions had ever been imposed on
hand luggage, with passengers only allowed to carry passports, wallets,
essential medicines and nappies for babies. [In a clear plastic bag,
according to ABC radio]
Passengers were forced to put any delicate items into their normal luggage
or miss their flights altogether. "
Ah... bliss...no more fat women with golf bags or pimply backpackers with
their entire stock of belongings in the cabin... that's fine with me :-)
Trevor Fenn
news:4k0ps3F...@individual.net:
Me too, maybe they can remove the overhead lockers now and save some of
that costly fuel :)
Yagu
Hoorah, at last !! Bugger..will miss me iPod, wonder if I can take me
Bose earphones?
Yagu
Globetrotter
(Nail files and Scissors). These are regarding as possible offensive
weapons.
First time it happened to my wife she protested but handed it over to them
They said. (Oh NO, you cant leave it with us, you will have to go and find a
rubbish tin. (We had six more pax behind us). I intervened and said, "they
are now your property to dispose of at your own leisure". Then we just
walked through and
boarded our flight. Bugger them