Y passengers using J overhead bins

[spreezy]

This may be a little off track but it all comes down to the pace of life. We run red lights because we can't stand the thought of waiting 40 seconds for it to change; we stuff all manner of luggage into "carry on" to save, what 10 minutes waiting for our bags to appear on the carousel; we have to turn on our phone the moment we touch down just in case someone has told us what they are having for dinner and many can't wait for that. We must have PB just to get ahead of the mob but we'll still be waiting for the plane to leave with everyone else. Can we all just chill out, Q patiently and all wait our turn and if that takes a while, who cares ? Unfortunately, I know the answer already.

FINALLY

Someone on here who isnt a pretentious <redacted>????

 

[simongr]

Re: Y passengers using J overhead bins - a QF problem

They are looking at replacing the overheads on the 738s - although I have a bigger issue with the 763s.

 

[juddles]

Re: Y passengers using J overhead bins - a QF problem

....I have a bigger issue with the 763s....

simongr, all peace from my end, but I just have to say: I have never had an ¨issue¨ with a particular plane design. I am surely not yet there in the AFF dedicated traveler stakes

 

[simongr]

Re: Y passengers using J overhead bins - a QF problem

On the 73x I can put my rollaboard in "end wise" and take up about 1/3 of a overhead bin. In the 763 is has to go in length wise and I end up taking 2/3 of the overhead. The rollaboard is regulation size. This just seems like poor design.

 

[TonyHancock]

FINALLY

Someone on here who isnt a pretentious <redacted>????

I'm proud to be pretentious!

 

[juddles]

I'm proud to be pretentious!

Tony, do you offer a DYKWIA school? I need lessons so I can deal appropriately with all the scum infesting MY aircraft.

 

[QF1]

My experience is when I am late to board because I am still pouring my last drink in the lounge when they do last calls, my cabin bag will ofetn get upgraded to J by the FA...Gosh I hate that practice of keeping your bags away from you...should upgrade me as well!!!!

 

[markis10]

Tony, do you offer a DYKWIA school? I need lessons so I can deal appropriately with all the scum infesting MY aircraft.

A true DYKWIA would not be flying commercial in the first place - no need to share!

 

[TonyHancock]

Tony, do you offer a DYKWIA school? I need lessons so I can deal appropriately with all the scum infesting MY aircraft.

This is going horribly off topic, but I'm thinking of staring up a DYKWIA academy, (sounds more pretentious than school ) I'm just working on the 91 reasons to attend!!

...better say something about overhead lockers now!!

[serious bit] It is easy to knock those that travel with carry on and want priority boarding. I will complete about 90 sectors flying this year, and spend more than 450 hours on an aircraft. I'll notch up well over 250,000 miles, maybe even get close to 300,000. :shock: My goal is to minimise the time spent at an airport or on an aircraft. This is done through not checking luggage, and sitting as near to the front of an aircraft as I can. On international flights this can save anything up to 45 minutes on landing. (Depending what other flights have landed at a similar time.) When I travel one bag goes in the overhead locker and the other underneath my seat, it is not fair on others to place both bags in the overhead locker in my opinion. So perhaps I am selfish because I would like to spend the extra half hour or more I save at my home if I can, or at the hotel I'll be heading too. I wouldn't need priority boarding if people didn't place their bags in the lockers at the front of the plane and head to their seat at the back. [/serious bit]

I don't drive through red or amber lights either.

 

[juddles]

TonyH,

I did over 400 hrs last year, am trying to reduce that this year. I have always been a meek and polite traveller, but am starting to get the sh_ts with those that do a few trips a year and demand the world. I am starting to understand that people like you and me are TRULY SUPERIOR to those that simply manage a few dodgy status-seeking flights. It is so long since I have worried about chasing SC/points that it is a foreign concept now.
I only travel with a single carryon (homes set up in different countries) so have never had a drama with the current thread problems. But want you to know that there are some of us out there that are in your world. We live suffering these scum that think that ¨Gold¨ is a positive thing. Cant remember the last flight I was on where the staff would not, if I made a complaint, hurl the offending baggage out the door. Clearly these staff recognize me for who I am.

 

[djfuzz]

Re: Y passengers using J overhead bins - a QF problem

On the 73x I can put my rollaboard in "end wise" and take up about 1/3 of a overhead bin. In the 763 is has to go in length wise and I end up taking 2/3 of the overhead. The rollaboard is regulation size. This just seems like poor design.

Agreed - 763 overhead bin designs over the window seats is horrible and often result in me having to break my personal rule of trying to keep my bags directly above me, and instead put them in the bins over the middle section so as not to take up the whole space in the bins above. Though what it has in fact resulted in is a move towards sitting in the centre section rather than by the window and a concerted effort to avoid 763s where possible (shame, as they are otherwise a very good aircraft despite their age).

 

[JohnPhelan]

Re: Y passengers using J overhead bins - a QF problem

On the 73x I can put my rollaboard in "end wise" and take up about 1/3 of a overhead bin. In the 763 is has to go in length wise and I end up taking 2/3 of the overhead. The rollaboard is regulation size. This just seems like poor design.

When the 767 was first being designed, there were no rollaboards! These only really became popular in the mid to late 1990s.

 

[oz_mark]

Re: Y passengers using J overhead bins - a QF problem

When the 767 was first being designed, there were no rollaboards! These only really became popular in the mid to late 1990s.

The Rollaboard is celebrating the 25th anniversary of its invention this year (1987)!

 

[Lowjhg]

Re: Y passengers using J overhead bins - a QF problem

I'm not being a DYKWiA here but if you have confidential documents with you and you're sitting in 1A when the overheads are full, you're bound to make some noise won't ya? Who's gonna take the blame of losing the confidential papers when the bag is separated from you at the back of the bus, where all sorts of things may happen.

 

[simongr]

Re: Y passengers using J overhead bins - a QF problem

Agreed - 763 overhead bin designs over the window seats is horrible and often result in me having to break my personal rule of trying to keep my bags directly above me, and instead put them in the bins over the middle section so as not to take up the whole space in the bins above. Though what it has in fact resulted in is a move towards sitting in the centre section rather than by the window and a concerted effort to avoid 763s where possible (shame, as they are otherwise a very good aircraft despite their age).

See the thing is that as I can't guarantee row 4 on the 738 then I prefer to be on the 763 so have a two seater rather than a three. But you then have the problems of the overhead space... My PA is under orders to book the 763 over the 738 but once P1 kicks in then it will be back to the 738.

 

[irv]

TonyH,

I did over 400 hrs last year, am trying to reduce that this year. I have always been a meek and polite traveller, but am starting to get the sh_ts with those that do a few trips a year and demand the world. I am starting to understand that people like you and me are TRULY SUPERIOR to those that simply manage a few dodgy status-seeking flights. It is so long since I have worried about chasing SC/points that it is a foreign concept now.
I only travel with a single carryon (homes set up in different countries) so have never had a drama with the current thread problems. But want you to know that there are some of us out there that are in your world. We live suffering these scum that think that ¨Gold¨ is a positive thing. Cant remember the last flight I was on where the staff would not, if I made a complaint, hurl the offending baggage out the door. Clearly these staff recognize me for who I am.

Juddles

Hope you are being facetious, agree there are some that push the barrow however "these scum" ? Me I am happy to sit in my seat until the scrum moves to the other end of the field.

 

[medhead]

we stuff all manner of luggage into "carry on" to save, what 10 minutes waiting for our bags to appear on the carousel;

Try 20 minutes twice a week, 50 weeks a year. That's 2000 minutes a year or about 33 hours that I'm not able to be with my family. Is that the answer that you thought you knew already? I'm certainly not going to apologise for wanting to spend more time with my family, but I am sorry that I have to be labelled with incorrect assumptions.

I want to get on first because I want my carry on luggage near me on the plane, not at the other end of the plane. BTW my carry on is a 105cm bag that weights =<7 kg and a small laptop satchel.

 

[ashleyn]

Try 20 minutes twice a week, 50 weeks a year. That's 2000 minutes a year or about 33 hours that I'm not able to be with my family. Is that the answer that you thought you knew already? I'm certainly not going to apologise for wanting to spend more time with my family, but I am sorry that I have to be labelled with incorrect assumptions.

I want to get on first because I want my carry on luggage near me on the plane, not at the other end of the plane. BTW my carry on is a 105cm bag that weights =<7 kg and a small laptop satchel.

Ouch, hit a raw nerve there. Really has your carry on ever been at the other end of the plane ?

 

[medhead]

Ouch, hit a raw nerve there. Really has your carry on ever been at the other end of the plane ?

People seem to falsely underestimate the timing involved, for whatever reason. It is the same with those who claim it only takes 3 minutes to unload an entire 737. My experience says these positions are wrong. You post seemed to be designed to insult, I just refuse to be belittled on the basis of such falsehoods. You might like to think you've touched a nerve, but I'm just pointing out the false assumptions.

 

[juddles]

Re: Y passengers using J overhead bins - a QF problem

....if you have confidential documents with you....

stuff the ¨confidential documents¨ - my teddy bear travels in my carryon (unless of course the seat beside me is vacant - in which case he rides in style)