Originally Posted by
mtkeller
It's a convenient place to put your bag if you're rummaging in it to find things. Also a great place to put service items when you're done with them and want an FA to pick them up. Not for stowage doesn't mean "Don't ever put anything here".
Agreed that it was a convenient place for rummaging around my carry-on and also to put newspapers when I was done with them. I mentioned this because someone in another thread said there was a table; I interpreted that as a place you could put things throughout the flight (as in the small table in the 7D seat in the 777).