Originally Posted by
COEWRFA
This is the exact reason I don't do anything west of of Texas. People have this idea that everything is all about them the further west you go. In all reality though, small bags are to be stowed under your seat and the larger bags go in the bin. Once you get airborn all you have to do is slide the computer bag behind your legs and it won't be in your way at all. Before I would of nicely asked you to do that, I would of checked one of this guys bags. I ask the agents to watch the bags and I watch them like a hawk when I work lead. We have a red coat in ORD that I wish I could carry with me to board all my flights. She won't let you past her if you have two bags or more and she charges you or whatever you tried to skip paying at check-in. AWWW! I love her!
Actually, for tall people with large feet, putting small bags behind your feet does not always work. I'm 6'4" and I find that I can do it in F, or in UA's E+ seats, but it's either extremely uncomfortable or completely impossible in a standard coach seat with 31" of pitch (i.e. on CO). Putting the bag under the seat in front of me means making an already uncomfortable situation much more so.
It's unfortunate that the FA's who do this think they are actually helping, when in fact they are encouraging people to bring bags that appear too large to fit under the seat. I understand politely asking people to move bags around, but I don't think it's OK to order someone to move a laptop bag to the underseat storage area, particularly a tall person on a transcon.