Originally Posted by
recreationguru
Very well said. If those of us who spend so much of our lives flying do the cooperative thing, we just might make the overall experience for all of us a little better!
Thanks. I am glad you agree.
I put my roller board, which meets the size requirements by the way, in the overhead bin and my small laptop case on top of it, simple and easy.
Obviously you have a very good luggage combo and I think that is perfectly acceptable. I also try to fit my briefcase on top but usually it won't fit but a coat will. The problem is the "ground space" so to say. When even a small briefcase is on the ground space it eats that space up and a bigger case cannot be put there. It is simply inefficient and not in the interest of anyone to do so.
Originally Posted by
swag
On the planes I usually fly (AA narrowbody MD80 & 757), in coach, there are two bins for every three rows of seats. The bins on the 3 seat side can stow 3 rollerboards (wheels first), and on the 2 side of the MD80, they can stow 2 rollerboards (sideways). That means that if only rollerboards are stowed, there's only enough space for 2/3 of the pax to stow bags (for 3 rows, 10/15 on the MD80, 12/18 on the 757). I suspect the numbers are similar for other airlines and aircraft.
So, if you board towards the end and the bins are full, it may not be due to bin hogs. That's especially true on routes where many have rollerboards (business-traveller-heavy routes), in the winter when many have heavy coats, and over the holidays when leisure travellers are toting lots of gifts.
I'm a believer in one item per person in the bins myself, until everyone has boarded. It's just common courtesy.
Good post. Yes, the bins are calculated very narrowly anyway. This makes it even more important to be reasonable and co-operative. The more people think like that and also distribute this kind of thinking through communication with fellow pax, who might have simply never thought it through, the better everybody is off.
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