Overhead locker assignment

[simongr]

You may have to take a smaller bag than you do now - because currently those people who take no carry-on baggage, or (like me) a small shoulder bag, are effectively subsiding those who bring bigger bags.

If everyone had an allocated and reserved x inches of overhead space, some would be empty, or nearly empty. Currently other people are able to use that space.

Also don't forget that those people who only bring hand luggage are also subsidizing those that check luggage. If everyone who carried hand luggage for an overnight flight checked it the queues at check in and the baggage carousel would be doubled.

 

[KiwiBob]

Another factor is some lockers are full of equipment, blankets, oxygen, reserved for crew carry ons.
Some airline in Europe is planning to charge for use of overhead lockers. $35 I think, or $15 if per-purchased. This would get more checked in, and be another option for, say, Gold elites.
But better checking would help. Air Asia is very strict, weighs carryon, and enforces 1 only. This means I don't have a problem with them. Air Niugini is about the worst, maybe Vietnam Air, as pax on these treat the aircraft like a local taxi, and carry as much as they can.

 

[Musongman]

I've seen that happen once on a BA flight I was on. I was sitting in J and the pax didn't even bother getting as far back as their seats. They just saw empty space and shoved their bags in and kept going.

I think the real issues with cabin baggage stem from the failure or unwillingness of airlines to properly enforce their own policies. It doesn't help that fees for checking in bags and lack of confidence in airlines to get bags back to passengers promptly after the flight arrives contributes to people taking more as carryon.

Yes, I agree, the carriers allow bags as large as my checked bag into the cabin too much of the time. They make a rod for their own back, and the FA's hate it! I don't want the "baggage police" senario, but at check in, they can mostly see what you intend to take into the cabin, unless you are a "smartie" and have a friend keep your "other item", while you check in!

A number of years ago at SYDKT, BA at check-in, hectored me into taking a few small items out of my hand luggage and putting it into my underweight checked bag, to make the 7Kg limit.
I remonstrated with the service desk senior, who was rude and dismissive.
To make things worse, when I got to the boarding gate, I was further hectored by an officious flunky, who demanded I open my hand luggage and was checked again!
Naturally, I have never flown willingly with BA ever since, though they have changed now by allowing almost any amount of hand luggage!

So, yes, a little bit of sanity please with carry-on!

 

[megmcw]

Re: Carry on Bags.

If the airlines enforced the carry on quota all would be solved. I am sick to death of arriving at my seat and finding the whole of the locker full. One overnight bag, oversized as usual and one bag with computer and documents in it. The same size as an overnight bag.
You need to fly in Peru, they take your bags off you when you check through and stow them as cargo if you have over the allocated amount.
It is quite ridiculous the amount of baggae some people board the aircraft with. It is even more infuriating on an overnight flight to find your locker full of pillows, blankets and various stuff from the crew.
Men are the worst offenders and also the most inconsiderate when it comes to pushing other peoples belongings to fit thiers in. Most females are not tall enough or strong enough to apply the pressure I have seen many men apply to someone elses baggage so they can fit in all their over quota stuff.

Hello all,

I did a search but failed to find a thread that specifically addressed this issue. Please point me in the right direction if it exists....

But today I need to vent my frustration about overhead lockers.

Why is it impossible for airlines to assign specific overhead locker space to specific seats??

There is a lot of debate regarding priority boarding. My personal preference is to board last. The only enticing reason to get into an aircraft seat early is to secure your bag in the locker. I do a fair bit of flying, and as such I know the norms and am reasonable in what I take onboard. Just one appropriate size bag. But my carryon is very important to me, with my personal items, laptop, etc in it. It gives me the sh.ts when I see the cabin crew bringing forward oversize stuff from the Y cabin and stuffing it in ¨my¨ overhed locker in J, squashing my gear.

Am I being a snob feeling that way?? Again, why cant we have assigned storage space?

Thoughts anyone?

 

[JohnCarrWestwood]

Hello all,


But today I need to vent my frustration about overhead lockers.

Why is it impossible for airlines to assign specific overhead locker space to specific seats??



Thoughts anyone?

I too am frustrated by the pigs of the sky that insist on traveling with their own personal handbasin and rocking chair that necessitates 3 carry on bags plus requisite duty free.. Time for check inpolice. If it dont fit in the box, it goes in the hold or elsewhere . Ive seen AA do this on domestic USA flights.. its matter of policing at the front line ( and a lot of selfcontrol when packing.) When we travel, 2 adults and two teen+agers , we manage to go away for 6-7 weeks with small back packs in the cabin and 3 regular roll on suitcases in the hold and we have never yet been over the 22kg per case.
Got me beat what people pack

 

[Robmn]

Also don't forget that those people who only bring hand luggage are also subsidizing those that check luggage. If everyone who carried hand luggage for an overnight flight checked it the queues at check in and the baggage carousel would be doubled.

Not now with QANTAS domestic I love the self checkin.

 

[simongr]

Similarly I get frustrated by queuing behind people with multiple bags to check in that have to be checked, tagged,bag stubs attached to the back of boarding passes...

I can happily fly in J for three weeks with a rollaboard and a suit bag that generally requires a 30 sec check in...

 

[Robmn]

Re: Carry on Bags.

Men are the worst offenders and also the most inconsiderate when it comes to pushing other peoples belongings to fit thiers in. Most females are not tall enough or strong enough to apply the pressure I have seen many men apply to someone elses baggage so they can fit in all their over quota stuff.

I have found this as well, once I pushed there bagage along, which had been thrown in (three peices) and not packed in, to make room in the locker for our smaller bag, made some noise in doing so and they were upset cause I cleared some space.

What I have noticed particually on Jetstar Star class, there are some pax who are bogans with no consideration for others, take more than ample privilages and should only be allowed in cattle. Maybe tough but as I see it.

 

[Netty]

My son in law got revenge on the obnoxious a*hole in front of us who started making a fuss on boarding. Blocked the aisle for ages, hogged all the overhead luggage space including ours, moved all our stuff to suit himself inc transferring to lockers on the other side of the aisle and was a prat for the entire flight. We waited until he went to sleep then S.I.L. grabbed the guys shoes, put them in a spare duty free bag and hid them in an overhead locker in a completely different section of the plane.

 

[Robmn]

My son in law got revenge on the obnoxious a*hole in front of us who started making a fuss on boarding. Blocked the aisle for ages, hogged all the overhead luggage space including ours, moved all our stuff to suit himself inc transferring to lockers on the other side of the aisle and was a prat for the entire flight. We waited until he went to sleep then S.I.L. grabbed the guys shoes, put them in a spare duty free bag and hid them in an overhead locker in a completely different section of the plane.

Yep I can relate to that - when someone uses up all my tolerance.

This could be a whole new thread

When placing stuff in the overheads glaze around the cabin taking ages.

Some, when they want to sleep, redistribute floor bits and bags from under their feet, push it into my foot space.

Recline their seat with gusto. (Been hit in the head)

Leave seats fully reclined when having a meal or reading.

Infrequent flyers treating the cabin crew like ****. always demanding. (especially when they paid PE fares.) Even when in the business lounge, with kids, their no better.


*** Maybe the airlines could publish some etiquette on their web page- and include it within "flying with us" pages.****

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[simongr]

My son in law got revenge on the obnoxious a*hole in front of us who started making a fuss on boarding. Blocked the aisle for ages, hogged all the overhead luggage space including ours, moved all our stuff to suit himself inc transferring to lockers on the other side of the aisle and was a prat for the entire flight. We waited until he went to sleep then S.I.L. grabbed the guys shoes, put them in a spare duty free bag and hid them in an overhead locker in a completely different section of the plane.

I do hope I am never on a flight with you or your family - what a disgraceful thing to do. Being an inconsiderate d*ck is one thing - being a vindictive spiteful little bitca is another entirely. I do hope those aren't the sort of values you are inspiring in your children.

 

[Alanslegal]

Similarly I get frustrated by queuing behind people with multiple bags to check in that have to be checked, tagged,bag stubs attached to the back of boarding passes...

I can happily fly in J for three weeks with a rollaboard and a suit bag that generally requires a 30 sec check in...

Or you could go to a different check-in line, just saying.

 

[lovestotravel]

I can happily fly in J for three weeks with a rollaboard and a suit bag that generally requires a 30 sec check in...

Yet a 3 week trip for me may require 3 checked bags

 

[Awesom Andy]

My son in law got revenge on the obnoxious a*hole in front of us who started making a fuss on boarding. Blocked the aisle for ages, hogged all the overhead luggage space including ours, moved all our stuff to suit himself inc transferring to lockers on the other side of the aisle and was a prat for the entire flight. We waited until he went to sleep then S.I.L. grabbed the guys shoes, put them in a spare duty free bag and hid them in an overhead locker in a completely different section of the plane.

As much as I don't want it to happen to me, I think it would be interesting to see it happen, and it would become one of those travel stories we laugh back at in years time.

 

[11sjw]

My son in law got revenge on the obnoxious a*hole in front of us who started making a fuss on boarding. Blocked the aisle for ages, hogged all the overhead luggage space including ours, moved all our stuff to suit himself inc transferring to lockers on the other side of the aisle and was a prat for the entire flight. We waited until he went to sleep then S.I.L. grabbed the guys shoes, put them in a spare duty free bag and hid them in an overhead locker in a completely different section of the plane.

I do hope I am never on a flight with you or your family - what a disgraceful thing to do. Being an inconsiderate d*ck is one thing - being a vindictive spiteful little bitca is another entirely. I do hope those aren't the sort of values you are inspiring in your children.

Have to agree here. What an apalling thing to do. No dramas with some overhead reshuffling to maximise storage but hiding someones shoes.

Surely that is close to stealing.

 

[maninblack]

Have to agree here. What an apalling thing to do. No dramas with some overhead reshuffling to maximise storage but hiding someones shoes.

Surely that is close to stealing.

Indeed.

But overhead reshuffling can be highly discourteous and many people are too just too shy. Why not speak up and just say, "please don't move my bag".

On another matter which may have been covered, I am always seeing what are probably WP's traveling in the front row of Y on 738's try to quicly grab locker space in the J cabin as they board, both on VA and QF. This is also arrogant and discourteous and the cabin crews need to stomp it out.

 

[juddles]

....Surely that is close to stealing.....

Perhaps the SIL went too far, but I believe it probably depends on just how much of tosser the guy was. Simply being offended for someone moving your gear to another locker would be insufficient. But if the offender was a real cough, maybe it was justified? In any case, the story caused me to laugh

 

[sinophile888]

I was very amused once on a flight from MEL to PER. A passenger had brought a large box of doughnuts, I presume at the airport, and had put them into the overhead locker. But that meant that no-one else could use the locker, as the box of doughnuts filled the space. The doughnut owner became quite irate when a passenger then wanted to put carry-on luggage in the locker.

 

[Homer]

On another matter which may have been covered, I am always seeing what are probably WP's traveling in the front row of Y on 738's try to quicly grab locker space in the J cabin as they board, both on VA and QF. This is also arrogant and discourteous and the cabin crews need to stomp it out.

I've seen VA handle this well on two recent flights. Most recently, just two days ago, I was flying in J from OOL to SYD. I was the only person in row 1 and row 2 was full with a party of four that had taken up all of the overhead lockers above them plus half of the space in row 1. It was a BSI aircraft so it had the huge bins that cause anything in them to roll towards the back when they are closed. I put my little satchel up there - my only carry on item - above my seat and watched people board. A guy with a roll-a-board started looking in the J overhead lockers for some space and finally found the one above my seat. I cringed as I thought about his heavy bag crushing my new iPad in my little satchel. But the CSM saw him and said, loudly, "Excuse me sir. Where are you sitting?" He pointed to row 3 and said "Just around the corner" and she replied "Well you'll have to find some other space as these overhead lockers are for Business class." It's tough but, when there are only two rows of J, I think it's fair.

 

[11sjw]

It's tough but, when there are only two rows of J, I think it's fair.

Two rows or 22 rows, it is still fair.