Carry-on boarding etiquette

[prozac]

Discussion in another thread started regarding passengers who board aircraft wearing a backpack then turn around swinging a heavy backpack directly into the head of a seated passenger. They seem completely oblivious to the chaos create and surely have done this previously. Perhaps cabin crew should instruct passengers to remove backpacks before entering the aircraft.
How about the passenger who insists on dragging their wheeled luggage up the aisle banging into every seat along the way?
The passenger who is able to get their 4 big stripey bags on-board despite carry-on restrictions.

What is your carry-on gripe?

 

[Seat0B]

The backpack thing is real - and I am a person who usually travels with a back pack. As I am quite short (well actually, pretty average for a female), I regularly get whacked in the face by taller passengers wearing backpacks who turn suddenly without being aware of the location of their pack. And also when I am seated too - sudden turns or people taking off their backpack without thinking about who they hit on the way down!

Another flight, and I do understand their dilemma, but.... a person boarded with a very extravagant floral arrangement in a massive box as their carry on. It was their only carry on. They carefully placed it in the overhead locker, and it took up the whole overhead locker - for three rows of seats in domestic Y (so for 8 other potential pax) and then aggressively told everyone else - me included- that we could not put anything in the locker as it was full and they couldn't have their special occasion flowers (a milestone birthday) damaged. This caused such a ruckus of pax with nowhere to put their luggage that the aisle got totally blocked by people milling about with bags that were too big to go under the seat in front, or with two or more bags and only one would go under the seat. Eventually a flight attendant turned up, and just took the flowers out, and I think they put them in the galley. The flower owner looked like thunder the whole way between MEL-CBR, but everyone else was happy!

 

[RooFlyer]

Discussion in another thread started regarding passengers who board aircraft wearing a backpack then turn around swinging a heavy backpack directly into the head of a seated passenger. They seem completely oblivious to the chaos create and surely have done this previously. Perhaps cabin crew should instruct passengers to remove backpacks before entering the aircraft.
How about the passenger who insists on dragging their wheeled luggage up the aisle banging into every seat along the way?
The passenger who is able to get their 4 big stripey bags on-board despite carry-on restrictions.

What is your carry-on gripe?

Pretty much the ones you listed particularly the swinging backpacks. I’ve commented on this a couple of times before.

 

[Pushka]

Hands Down, the backpack. Why people aren't made to remove them on entry beggars belief. They can cause injury. If someone swings one towards me when I'm seated it gets a big shove

 

[offshore171]

The people that block the aisle during boarding for several minutes, while they are trying to jam excessive carryon into the overheads.

 

[Seat0B]

The people that block the aisle during boarding for several minutes, while they are trying to jam excessive carryon into the overheads.

yep, those people with lots of stripey bags for example, or the families with everything bar the kitchen sink, or the business people with a carry on, a laptop bag, a big folder and an overcoat. these latter trying to sit in Row 1 which now has literally no luggage space!

 

[MelMel]

The couples who sit middle and window and the one already sitting at the window proceeds to direct the one still standing to “take this, take that” out of bags that have been put in the overhead locker. Work out what you want with you beforehand and have it in you hand

 

[offshore171]

What are the stripey bags that keep getting mentioned?

 

[andye]

What are the stripey bags that keep getting mentioned?

These I presume

 

[offshore171]

Isn't that for the laundromat?

People bring these on planes?

 

[prozac]

These I presume

That's them @andye. How do they get multiple stripey bags onboard?

 

[prozac]

I brought a piano accordion back from Europe once. It is a 1930-40 model so not so large as the more modern variety. I packed my cabin bag inside my checked baggage so I would only have the one piece of cabin luggage plus my 14" laptop. Fortunately the PA fitted neatly into the overhead. I was amazed at the attention it attracted. I transited FRA and boarding the bus to the terminal a 50'ish German woman asked what I was carrying, that really floored me. Then asked what I was doing with it? "I am a piano accordion courier", "Oh". It was end September and the Oktoberfest promotions were underway in the terminal. I got asked to join an Oompah band playing by one of the shops. haha. Plenty of other comments in Singapore too, all mostly women, then in SYD the customs people just wanted to talk about accordions.

 

[NickCorr]

Hands Down, the backpack. Why people aren't made to remove them on entry beggars belief. They can cause injury. If someone swings one towards me when I'm seated it gets a big shove

As a back pack use, I always make sure it use the carry handle when walking onto the plane, not wearing it.. it is just easier to put it on the seat and grab what you need out of it, rather than having to try and get it off both shoulders and generally being a pain...

 

[SeatBackForward]

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

 

[Lynda2475]

My gripe is people exceeding the allowance (size) and crew luggage taking up overhead bin space above my seat in domestic business such that my within allowance carry-on may be stored out of view.

I love that in J on international, you get a dedicated bin per seat. So Id love to see dedicated bin space per seat in Y (could be by way of dividers - so each bin is only for the 3 seats below it, Such that if some selfish @sshat puts their extra items in my bin, I can have it removed and sent below.

Also despise people who move my bag which is bin above my seat, to accommodate their excess or oversized item. We need staff to better police size and number of items at boarding.

 

[offshore171]

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

Pull it out and walk it down to them

 

[Franky]

What are the stripey bags that keep getting mentioned?

I've always called them refugee bags... They're red, white and blue striped nylon/plastic bags in the same shape as a Woolie's shopping bag, but multiple times bigger. I doubt they would fit in the measuring frame at the boarding area.

 

[SeatBackForward]

Pull it out and walk it down to them

Then I'd have to wait for the entire plane to board to return to my seat, no thanks. But..taking it out and leaving it in the aisle would be interesting when the FA's chase out who it belongs to.

 

[Lynda2475]

I've always called them refugee bags... They're red, white and blue striped nylon/plastic bags in the same shape as a Woolie's shopping bag, but multiple times bigger. I doubt they would fit in the measuring frame at the boarding area.

Mind you those testers at least at QF dont reflect the new carry-on sizes per the website.

 

[Matt_01]

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

My response to this thread can be found here, I prepared the answer in 2019