Originally Posted by
LondonElite
Re VCE: Would anyone who is at any Italian airport in the next day or so please photograph the boarding process so that the OP can see how (1) orderly that process is and (2) how little carry-on our southern friends take on a typical short haul flight.

I once went through security behind a family destined for an Alitalia long haul flight. Mother, father, toddler, infant. They filled, and I mean filled, no actually, I mean overfilled, 17 trays with stuff, most of which had been stashed in their chariot sized stroller.