Originally Posted by
bealine
The article is entirely relevant because of the severity of injury a lightweight item caused. Now imagaine a 23kg trolley bag had fallen, or a ski boot - the pressure would have been a hundred times worse and may have killed the woman..
This is why I have stated that common sense be applied.
Clearly any object in the overheads bins can be potentially hazardous hence the crew announcement about been careful when opening the bins. We're never going to get rid of the overhead bins so let's be practical about it.
The current hand baggage limit on weight is already unrealistic. 23kgs the same as a checked bag, come on
BA really don't help themselves and something easy like sorting out the hand baggage rules and having some mild interest in actually enforcing it would go a long way to pleasing both crew and regular flyers.
Everybody knows there's an issue but why are BA so disinterested? Surely enforcing a reasonable baggage allowance is not going to drive passengers away...