Moving carry on luggage to another overhead bin??

[tdimdad]

What was the overall consensus on facebook commentville?

I usually skip over the advertised posts so no idea what the piling up sounded like in this case. But usually it'd be "an entitled brick, should have just left other people's bags as they are" *300 and "an ignorant retard who feels more important that they are and uses J space without a seat" *300.

 

[SeatBackForward]

I usually skip over the advertised posts so no idea what the piling up sounded like in this case. But usually it'd be "an entitled brick, should have just left other people's bags as they are" *300 and "an ignorant retard who feels more important that they are and uses J space without a seat" *300.

And possibly a few that proudly said "yes I always do this and wish they wouldn't touch my bags".

 

[BriarFlyer]

What was the overall consensus on facebook commentville?

I skimmed the comments and the majority agreed that BC pax had paid for and therefore deserved that space above his seat. Opinion was divided on whether he should have removed someone else's bag though or called for cabin staff to move it.

 

[Forg]

I skimmed the comments and the majority agreed that BC pax had paid for and therefore deserved that space above his seat.

... atypical Faecebook Karenism, unfortunately.

The unspoken rules which everyone knows, but some choose to ignore when it's inconvenient for them, are "first come, first served within your cabin-class" with in-cabin luggage.
It's annoying if you didn't get there before someone put the luggage above or slightly forward of your seat, and yes more should be done about people bringing too much onboard, but tough cheese them's the rules.
You definitely haven't paid for the space above your seat, and you definitely don't have the right to it!

Another of the unspoken rules which everyone knows is that it's also acceptable to shuffle others' bags around within the bin they're in (eg. the number of times I've seen a bag put in sideways when it could take up so much less space lengthways), but as soon as you need to remove anything that's for an FA or you ask the owner.

FA's should just use their airline-logo-monogrammed machetes, originally designed for dealing with the Feet On The Bulkheads Thread folk, to dehand(*) pax who break the aforementioned rules!


(*) this is the hand equivalent to defeating someone, ie. to remove their feet

 

[Ouabain]

A bit of story time first - I flew EY85 in Y recently, and boarded ahead of nearly everyone due to VA Gold. Y was almost completely full - all but 4 seats occupied - as such, the overhead bins were also chock full on the 77W. I put my large-ish backpack in the overhead bins, with my puffer jacket underneath the seat, and settled in.

One of the last few passengers to board was a group, potentially American-Italians (not sure, they spoke English only but with an accent), who all had roller bags and at least a jacket, or sometimes another bag as well - they were sitting in the row in front of me. The overhead bins were mostly full at this stage, so they started looking for other places to put their bags.

This is where it gets interesting - one of the ladies in the family decided to remove my backpack and place her bag in its place - the only reason I noticed was because it must have been heavier than expected (it had both my laptop and portable monitor in it, among other things), and she accidentally hit the person in the aisle seat with it (I was at the window). I asked her she was doing with my bag, and she said she needed to move it because her bags "had priority". I said I put it there for a reason, but she simply ignored me and put my bag about 3 rows down, making it an absolute pain to get to when deplaning.

I left it there then, as I was in the window seat and didn't want to cause any actual issues for the FA. But what would you guys have done? If she had asked, I probably would've been okay with moving my bag, and could've warned her it's heavy cause laptops etc. But the fact she just took it and moved it really didn't sit right with me - what happens if I didn't realise, or if she accidentally broke something? I'm sure there's some interesting AFF stories on people touching things that aren't theirs

How phenomenally rude!