Moderator, Iberia Airlines, Airport Lounges, and Ambassador, British Airways Executive Club
Join Date: Feb 2010
Programs: BA Lifetime Gold; Flying Blue Life Platinum; LH Sen.; Hilton Diamond; Kemal Kebabs Prized Customer
Posts: 63,850
"Everyone knows a closed overhead means a full overhead", except when it doesn't, for a number of reasons already listed. And an open overhead gives an instant, hands-free, visible storage check even if it is lowest common denominator. That photo is from row 1, so on European airlines laptops and larger tablets would have to be stowed during taxi, take-off and landing. And there is plenty of space for a laptop/tablet by the wheels, and probably at the other end too.