Lost luggage is always a problem and to some degree I agree.
However, the carry on bins are not unlimited and should not be first come, first served. There is a certain amount of space allocated to my seat, and I damned well expect it to be available to me when I get to my seat.
If you have a late boarding ticket zone, you can be forced into putting your carry on on the jetway and have to wait to retrieve it from the jetway, because so many others decided that they just had to have an enormous bag to stuff in the bin, and take up their space and several others as well, and refuse to put that bag under the seat in front of them. God forbid they might have to give up their leg space rather than let everybody have their space in the bins.
I am with United on this one, and for the record I consider them to be a fly-by-night outfit. Fly them by force, not choice. Much prefer JetBlue.
some passengers who sit at the back and are in the first zones to load will put their carry on near the front when they get on and then go clear to the back to sit and put more stuff there or not at all..
if you get on after them in another zone loading and sit towards the front theres no room at your seat for your items..
don’t worry now that Im older and an accept curmudgeon I just move anything that I know belongs to a passenger from the back even taking it out and replacing it with my own..
Of course that means the air steward has to get the back of the bus passenger to come and claim his luggage and move it ...
but I have done it..
one time since there was nobody at all in the area yet I said to the steward oh look someone from the previous flight must have left his carry on..she moved it..
Oh naughty Nana..
Ive had women from the back try and fight me for my parking space in the bins..
Im vicious LOL
but if you don’t your carry on is taken to who knows where and then you have to chase it down later..
Right here I must tell the delicious thing that happened in October when I flew out of Newark to Paris..
I was at the window in a 3 seat row..the very first row of coach..
I was hoping to have the row to myself to sleep but the aisle seat was taken..
a lesbian looking smelly young woman came to that aisle seat took one look at me in my kind Nana face and jeans and sneakers and hoodie and smelling sweet, and marched back towards the front to complain loudly about I do not know what I didn’t say anything to her..
When she did that I felt I had her permission to make myself some boundary and personal space..I moved an item or 2 into the middle seat in the row..
I didn’t said anything to her or anything but I was a villain of sorts..
she came back followed by the stewardess who was apologizing worriedly for who knows what and told her that after the plane was full then she would see about moving the indignant one..
by this time I was holding my merry Conservative mouth tightly so I wouldn’t burst out laughing..
I didn’t know at what but how could I be Enemy # 1 and not to be sat by or near..when I didn’t even know how I had offended ??
the ruffled feathers one sat down gingerly in the aisle seat and leaned out so that other passengers passing her either hit her or moved to the other seats to get by her they commented and growled LOL
Now I was on my way to Europe to do something I had wanted to do for more than 20 years take a transAtlantic cruise back to the US..I wasn’t about to let this ijit mess up my “dream of a lifetime”..
So before we took off and when all were on board so there wouldn’t be anyone taking her place I quietly leaned towards her and said to her some dumb thing off the top of my head that would greatly upset an honest Liberal I don’t remember what..something like “dear Im going to sleep during the flight and I snore I do hope I wont disturb you” or something..I was inspired anyway..
She jumped up and never came back..the steward took her way to the back of the plane..so far back they disappeared..
so I got to stretch out along 3 seats in the one row and sleep that night and awake refreshed the next morning in Paree..
Nana 1 Liberal O..
gosh I wish I could remember what it was I had said to her..
Yes, I read some of the other responses after I finished posting mine. I also can recall times when I was waiting in line boarding a plane, and idiots in front of me were carrying all sorts of packages and large bags that would never fit in the overhead locker. In fact, if you didn’t board the plane early enough, you were liable to find all the overhead spaces taken by people who were bent on using two or three of them.
So, it goes both ways.