Help me complain

Re: Help me complain

• oklagirl

  September 2010

  wingedbride:

  wendyld:

  FallinAgain:

  wendyld:

  FallinAgain:

  Yep.  I also think you should have to be able to put your own bag in the overhead by yourself.  There are so many women with big bag who stand in the aisle and look around helplessly for help.  I want to kick them.

  My twin sister can't reach the overhead bins to put any sized bag into them.  If available, she'll stand on seats to reach it, but that takes forever and isn't doing anyone any favors.  So should children/super short people not be able to fly unattended if they can't reach?
  

  Nope, but not being able to carry on a bag that won't fit under the seat isn't the same as not being able to fly unattended.  I'm too short/weak to put a bag in the overheads so I don't use them.

  Ok fine, so she's not allowed to carry on a bag that fits within the carry-on limits that everyone else has to follow because she's too short to reach the overhead bins? It's not like she can just choose to pack lighter.  Yes, you can check that bag, but at $25 each way, that's not really fair to expect either because of something beyond your control (like height).
  

  Short people should have smaller bags because their clothing requires less material.

  If you're that short, all your stuff should fit in this. Easy peasy.

  

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• FallinAgain

  September 2010

  wendyld:

  FallinAgain:

  wendyld:

  FallinAgain:

  Yep.  I also think you should have to be able to put your own bag in the overhead by yourself.  There are so many women with big bag who stand in the aisle and look around helplessly for help.  I want to kick them.

  My twin sister can't reach the overhead bins to put any sized bag into them.  If available, she'll stand on seats to reach it, but that takes forever and isn't doing anyone any favors.  So should children/super short people not be able to fly unattended if they can't reach?
  

  Nope, but not being able to carry on a bag that won't fit under the seat isn't the same as not being able to fly unattended.  I'm too short/weak to put a bag in the overheads so I don't use them.

  Ok fine, so she's not allowed to carry on a bag that fits within the carry-on limits that everyone else has to follow because she's too short to reach the overhead bins? It's not like she can just choose to pack lighter.  Yes, you can check that bag, but at $25 each way, that's not really fair to expect either because of something beyond your control (like height).
  

  Well, under my rules, part of those limits everyone would have to follow would be ability to put the bag in the bins.  That would probably inconvenience people disadvantaged in ways other than height as well.  On the flip side, I would also ban airlines charging for checked bags--at least for the first one under a reasonable weight.

  

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• Bat937

  September 2010

  Normally what I've seen happen is that if the bins are getting full, the flight attendant will check them to see if there are any coats/loose clothes and smaller bags that will fit under the seat in front of you.  Then they politely ask the person to move those articles under the seat so that someone can put a bigger piece of luggage under there.

   But, they shouldn't yell at you or give you a lecture  about public transportation.  Once you said it wouldn't fit, she should have let it go and moved on.
  

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• Jen&Joe06

  September 2010

  I hate it when people who are at the back of the plane put their carryon luggage in a compartment at the front of the plane. It always ends up taking up "my spot".

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