Carry-on boarding etiquette

[Seat0B]

What are the stripey bags that keep getting mentioned?

You buy them at Crazy Clints or similar discount stores for a few dollars each and they look like this:



They are pretty big and can be quite heavy when filled up. Also, the zips often break or gape....

 

[Seat0B]

Isn't that for the laundromat?

People bring these on planes?

oh yes they most certainly do!!

 

[Scarlett]

People who place their bags above the forward rows, then proceed to take their seat in the back row of the plane.

I’ve just watched three pax do exactly this. Assisted by the cabin crew! Clearly the crew ‘know who they are’.
Cue carry on baggage tetris when other J pax arrived to stow their million other bags, boxes, satchels etc.

(but then, I’m sitting in the J cabin on a domestic Indonesian flight - Batik Air - so not at all surprising. Older male pax, young female cabin crew: nothing will ever be said in this culture)

Please also note that my backpack is under the seat in front. Unfortunately as one of the first to board I didn’t have a selection of bonces to smack it in to.

PS: we’re finally taxiing: two and a quarter hours late.
PPS: row one pax have bags at their feet - same age/gender issue as luggage above.
PPPS: I wonder how much the flight crew cheated on their last sim sessions?

TTFN… <flight mode on>

 

[Seat0B]

Also despise people who move my bag which is bin above my seat, to accommodate their excess or oversized item.

Yes, me too! I even don't like it when they just move my stuff around, usually pushing it to the back, and often crushing my coat and scarf (which coming from Canberra, I frequently carry ) under their bag or even worse, putting the dirty wheels of their carry on bag all over my clothing, or pulling out my handbag (replete with wallet and other personal items, putting it on a chair or the floor, loading up their stuff and then often "forgetting" to put it back in the luggage locker. I hate this.

 

[TiredOldFlyer]

Etiquette and boarding pax would appear to me to be an oxy

Yes, me too! I even don't like it when they just move my stuff around, usually pushing it to the back, and often crushing my coat and scarf (which coming from Canberra, I frequently carry ) under their bag or even worse, putting the dirty wheels of their carry on bag all over my clothing, or pulling out my handbag (replete with wallet and other personal items, putting it on a chair or the floor, loading up their stuff and then often "forgetting" to put it back in the luggage locker. I hate this.

 

[TiredOldFlyer]

It appears to me that etiquette and boarding passenger is an oxymoron.
I also wonder about the prize for being first to deboard.

 

[flyingfan]

When a very small item is put in the overhead locker, reducing space for suitcases that really can't go under the seat in front. Maybe people really have an aversion to putting their possessions under the seat because the floor is perceived as very dirty? But it makes things difficult for people boarding later, especially around bulkheads where those rows have to put everything, big and small, in the overhead locker.

I feel for the FAs having mediate all this - they might say banning all carry-on full stop is the answer to world peace!

 

[Lynda2475]

I avoid bulk head specifically so I can have my purse under seat in front, happy for locked carry-on to be bin, but like my passport/wallet/phone etc to be within sight at all times.

 

[mrsterryn]

A slightly different perspective. Noting husband does tend to travel in business class
He wears a backpack till he gets to his seat. He has intermittent right leg paralysis. He walks with a stick . Trying to take off a backpack mid stream in boarding is difficult. He has already had one fall this year which gave him a nice deep pirate scar lol, from turning. (Interesting to see how much information is on his record regardless of which hospital he is admitted to )He needs to be balanced , aka on other seats , to ensure he doesn't fall
He isn't trying to be difficult.
The backpack stabilised and he can't walk with it. Trying to carry it as a bag can sometimes be a problem
PS not trying for a sad story lol. Just wanted to give a different perspective

 

[coriander]

Someone did that (put their Y carryon above my J seat) to me when we flew J SYD to CHC even after I told them to take their bag down to Y. FAs did nothing to support me or criticise his abuse of me.

When we landed in CHC, it's after midnight and raining of course everyone stood up so the w*nker in row 26 couldn't get to his carry-on.

Pax across the aisle said "quick give me the carry on". He stowed it well under the seat in 2A then dropped a couple of pillows on the floor to further conceal it. Much mirth from all of us J pax.

W*nker deplaned sans his carryon and was running back and forth in panic looking at everyone's bags, gentleman who'd hidden it casually offering advice that he saw a similar one "over there". No one who'd been in J who'd heard him tell me to "get f*cked" offered any assistance.

The single city-bound airport bus left without him.

Aah, gotta love karma.

 

[coriander]

I’ve just watched three pax do exactly this. Assisted by the cabin crew!

We flew MCO-DFW-LAX back in the years BC and the American Airlines FAs were red hot on preventing Ys from trying to put their carryon in J/F lockers. Was great to see .

 

[Lynda2475]

We flew MCO-DFW-LAX back in the years BC and the American Airlines FAs were red hot on preventing Ys from trying to put their carryon in J/F lockers. Was great to see .

Still great at this now. Last week i was one of the last to board AA flight from ORD to DFW. FAs knew bins were already largely full and therefore putting tags on anything bugger than a hadbag or laptop bag to get sent to the hold. But upon looking at my F (which we know is really only J) BP waived me through with my carry-on case. F was full but due to policing of overhead bins, no problem stowing my case above me even though I was 5th last to board.

 

[Austman]

On a recent very full QF domestic flight of over 4 hours, at one point from about half way though the boarding process, there were repeated announcements:

"As the rear overhead bins are now full, could boarding passengers please use the first vacant bin space they see on the way to their seats."

So... sometimes the crew might even request the practice. Admittedly in this case giving the reason...

Always board as early as you can on full flights?

 

[RooFlyer]

Always board as early as you can on full flights?

As you can't really know how full a flight is going to be (absent checking EF I guess) that means I try to board early each time. I can look at my phone just as easily on board as in the queue (if I arrive later) or in the last few minutes in the lounge.

 

[Austman]

As you can't really know how full a flight is going to be

True but the seat map from the QF app, at least for your cabin class, is a pretty good indicator. For QF flights ...

 

[Matt_01]

As for backpacks if I am using one in crowded spaces I often wear it across my chest and not having to worry about hitting others unintentionally.

 

[Forg]

It appears to me that etiquette and boarding passenger is an oxymoron.
I also wonder about the prize for being first to deboard.

Making it to the Skytrain ASAP, and not having to wait for the next one!

Srsly I see your point, the majority (especially international) will just get to mill-around at the baggage carousel.

 

[Franky]

Someone did that (put their Y carryon above my J seat) to me when we flew J SYD to CHC even after I told them to take their bag down to Y. FAs did nothing to support me or criticise his abuse of me.

When we landed in CHC, it's after midnight and raining of course everyone stood up so the w*nker in row 26 couldn't get to his carry-on.

Pax across the aisle said "quick give me the carry on". He stowed it well under the seat in 2A then dropped a couple of pillows on the floor to further conceal it. Much mirth from all of us J pax.

W*nker deplaned sans his carryon and was running back and forth in panic looking at everyone's bags, gentleman who'd hidden it casually offering advice that he saw a similar one "over there". No one who'd been in J who'd heard him tell me to "get f*cked" offered any assistance.

The single city-bound airport bus left without him.

Aah, gotta love karma.

Someone did that (put their Y carryon above my J seat) to me when we flew J SYD to CHC even after I told them to take their bag down to Y. FAs did nothing to support me or criticise his abuse of me.

When we landed in CHC, it's after midnight and raining of course everyone stood up so the w*nker in row 26 couldn't get to his carry-on.

Pax across the aisle said "quick give me the carry on". He stowed it well under the seat in 2A then dropped a couple of pillows on the floor to further conceal it. Much mirth from all of us J pax.

W*nker deplaned sans his carryon and was running back and forth in panic looking at everyone's bags, gentleman who'd hidden it casually offering advice that he saw a similar one "over there". No one who'd been in J who'd heard him tell me to "get f*cked" offered any assistance.

The single city-bound airport bus left without him.

Aah, gotta love karma.

That would be one of the best doses of karma I've heard of - well done.

 

[Quickstatus]

Isn't that for the laundromat

Its because when empty they take up very little space. Great for shopping etc

Always board as early as you can on full flights?

In some places thats called priority boarding.....

 

[coriander]

I think we all had 3 hours to fume and stew on revenge, all credit to the other gentleman whose idea it was to hide the bag: he was built like a brick outhouse anyway so I doubt Mr LostBag would have picked on him.