Originally Posted by
emanon256
Thats one way to interpret it, but it is not what I am saying. I am not saying, "you should use more overhead space". The way I interpret it, and the airlines state, is that the under-seat storage is your primary storage. What I hear you saying, is you want extra room, so you don't have to follow the rules and will take up space elsewhere.
Well, if you are not explicitly saying it, I am explicitly letting you know that is what will happen.
Checking a bag is damn inconvenient. I would never make that choice if my foot well always needed to hold my laptop. I don't want to wait at the baggage belt anymore than the other folks trying to cram their roller bags on top. I only check my roller bag now, to make a smaller cabin foot print, to take up less space in the overhead, so that my foot well is free.
I guess the concept is more complicated to explain that it is in my head.