Originally Posted by
davie355
I had understood overhead space to be first-come, first-serve within the same class of service.
What should I have said or done?
I dunno, I get really annoyed the folk who walk onto a plane, park their bag in row 10 or whatever and then march to the back of the plane. Like, what are the people in row 10 supposed to do?
But you didn't put your bag a million miles away when there were better places, you took the last spot. Unless she had her bag up there and had just taken it down for a moment to remove stuff ... Whatever.
After intensely staring at me, 1A asked a flight attendant what to do about her bag. The flight attendant squeezed her bag right beside mine in the 1CD overhead and closed it.
*This* is the real reason I commented however. I swear every time I get told, like clockwork, as I'm entering the plane "oh the bins are full" I *know* there's plenty of space. Only once in all the years of flying have I failed to find a space where someone put their bags in sideways or left half a bag's space on on either side or put a coat between the bags leaving the space above void. That's probably my biggest pet peeve flying. And you get passengers like this just staring at a half full storage bin wondering what are they to do...