Originally Posted by
thedoorchick
Fair enough.
1. I should have been more clear that it doesn't look a little "off"
to me.
Somehow, I didn't get that from this statement of yours:
Originally Posted by
thedoorchick
It's not like they took my seat or anything. But it just looks a little.....off.
Originally Posted by
thedoorchick
Of course, it could be argued that someone considerably uninformed about the process isn't all that entitled to an opinion. But I do think that, for those people, the situation could seem not quite right, or not the best of first or early impressions. Especially since not all airlines require upgrades to be paid for (with cash or stickers), it would be easy for a person unfamiliar with AA upgrade policies to think a customer should have been given the seat.
Uninformed people make silly misjudgments all the time. It's kind of a constant condition of life with them. If we eliminate one silly misjudgment, it is like taking one drop of water out of the ocean.
Originally Posted by
thedoorchick
2. I don't have a great solution, I admit. However, I'm also not the first person to suggest there might be one somewhere:
This was more of my thinking out loud than my having any great new ideas.
The reason you (and others who suggest that there is a place for this somewhere) don't know where that might be is probably that there is no space for this. The only way to dedicate space for this use is to take space currently being used for something else. Every cubic inch of space on an airplane is carefully planned. Not reasonable to change the use of space that is currently used on every flight to space that is used only sporadically on occasional flights.
Originally Posted by
thedoorchick
3. That's really a different situation than what I was referring to. Rather, my comments were referring to the post quoted above where the several days' length of crew trips was given as a reason they might need to carry on more luggage. I still maintain that a person, with few exceptions, ought to be able to pack enough clothes and toiletries for several days in one rollaboard suitcase. Especially while working, and working in uniform at that. Although I can get through a week most anywhere with one rollaboard suitcase, it's typically less full on a work trip than a vacation.
Now with a situation where a person has to carry things the employer requires to be transported (whatever those things may be), I would likely agree that it's impossible to avoid needing more bags.
Did you read this post (#18 in this thread)?
Originally Posted by
T/BE20/G
The problem isn't necessarily personal effects, but rather work materials that must be carried separately from personal items. As a pilot, one of my three bags is chock-full of things that I am required to carry at work, and which I have to carry apart from my personal things because when I'm actually flying, I have to have them with me in the cockpit and accessible. Likewise, flight attendants also have required duty items that they have to keep separate and which must remain accessible while working.
Like you, I tend to travel, for a trip of most any length, with a single rollaboard and a laptop case. When I'm working, I also have to add a 3rd bag, which is my flight case. Believe me, that bag's heavy and a hassle and I don't want to have to carry it any more than you want it taking up space in the overhead bin!
Because it says that the people you are complaining about having more than a rollaboard and a personal item are in exactly the situation that you say you would need more than a rollaboard and a personal item if you were in. That is why they are allowed an extra bag.