Originally Posted by
sh76us
PHX-EWR.
I'm sitting in 7C (bulkhead) on a 739. The guy across from me in 7D has two enormous carryons- both at least 25 inches in height. There's no space over us, so he takes his monstrosities both up to F and takes the space over row 4 for both; one on each side of the aisle. One of them is so big that the bin won't close so he forces the bin for close to a minute until it closes with empty space on both sides of his enormous bag. If an FA saw him, there was no indication of it.
Finally, as boarding finished the FA sees that some F pax don't have space in the overhead and figures out what happened and asks the first few rows in Y if anyone put their bags in F. This guy says nothing (nobody rats him out; I felt like doing it, but wimped out). 5 more minutes pass and the FA finally starts to take out one of his bags from the overhead since everyone in F says it's not theirs. So the guy finally steps forward and admits its his and goes to gate check it. But his other oversized roll-aboard stays in F for the whole flight even though he admitted it was his as well.
Now, I get that the FA's don't want conflict, but at a minimum, they should have forced him to check both of them along with any fees associated with the check (I don't know if the guy had status).
There really is no incentive at all to follow the rules, it seems. Letting flagrant carry-on abuse like this go make a joke of the rules.
Would you have ratted the guy out or is it none of my business?
But a Y pax taking TWO bags, EACH oversized and using F storage? I actually had to chuckle at the audacity.
I would do it in a heartbeat.
MIA-DFW early morning flight. Couple of Y pax put their bags on while I was boarding right behind them, so I saw them blatantly doing it. Not only do they fear there is no space at the back, but they also want the maximum comfort to grab the bag in front instead of going to the back of the cabin by themselves. I talked to the FA immediately about the Y pax put the bag in. They ended up paging the Y pax to remove the bag by themselves. Saw the walk of shame of them back and forth.
Originally Posted by
kenn0223
Meh, If I was the FA I don't know that I'd do anything different. The FAs just want to get the door closed. I don't think there is much motivation or reason for them to enforce carry-on limits. These limits should be enforced by the Ticket and Gate Agents.
I don't know how a GA can prevent someone from getting the bag on the overhead space in F.
I cannot take it anymore about such a blatant baggage abuse.