I’m sure this has been discussed before but I witnessed a rather unseemly spat on an A320 departing LHR today.

A gentleman seated in 1D boarded and went to put his case in the locker above his seat. He was the first Row 1 passenger on board and I could see from row 4 that his chosen locker must’ve been full (probably with crew bags) as he then shut the locker and turned around and put his case in the opposite locker above 1 A and C.

Fast forward a few minutes and a lady boarded, opened the locker above her apparent seat (1C), turned to the man in 1D jabbed him in the shoulder and said rather aggressively “is this YOUR bag?”

“Yes”he replied.

“well you need to move it. This is the bag space for my seat”.

The woman’s mortified boyfriend attempted to persuade her otherwise but she was having none of it.

Just as the man in 1D was about to move his bag, the purser walked up and said “ Madam, there are no allocated lockers. You can put your bag back there.”

And that was the end of it.

but my question……who was right and who was wrong here?