Originally Posted by
gungadin
Your wife must look more competent than I do. I am 79 and 5 foot 6. I have never ever flown when someone did not offer to help me put my bag in the overhead. And that includes my last Delta trip to Germany when the group of handsome young men opposite me about ran the plane out of drinks but got up twice to help me .
I fly nearly every week and I would say the amount of times I see someone assist a woman with lifting a bag into or out of the overhead bin is 10% for the elderly woman and 70% for the pretty shapely well dressed 20 or 30 year old woman. You are fortunate that someone helps you frequently however that is not what I am seeing on the flights I fly on which are all over the US and internationally as well. I fall into neither category and can lift my own bag.