flyquiet

My coat is not packed nor is it in the overhead or closet. It is on me because I am freezing on the airplane. You people run a different temperature than I do, clearly.

WaytoomuchEurope

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jc94

lallied

vernonc

The nerve is getting up multiple times during the boarding process.

Fizzer

Try that approach in -37 and boarding a Q400 across the tarmac in YQR. And if the coat you need on that day fits in your carry on then your carry on is too big. That also explains why you might still have the said coat with you when you arrive in your final tropical destination. I personally layer but I try not to judge other passengers who choose a full parka.

Stranger

My coat is in the closet. If it were to go into my carryon, wouldn't be a carryon anymore, would need being big enough to get checked.

That's in winter of course. Mid-season, I guess it might fit. But it's still inconvenient.

HerpaYvr

So I have been going to the warmer climates of Asia all week and in YYC its a cold, but comfortably dry -20 these past few days. Before i board the shuttle bus from the park & drive, i shed my winter coat and put on my light weight hoody (bunny wrap for those Saskatchewan folks) Yup it's cold, but i simply remember the words of wisdom from my training NCO from my military training ........ suck it up buttercup ........its winter in Canada

Fizzer

That's pretty much what I do but lots of older folks don't and will, therefore, take coats, which some think is unusual. Expecting otherwise is unrealistic. My wife doesn't handle the cold at all ,even though she is ex military herself, and were I to try the suck it up approach I might find her reprising some of her prior training on myself.

D404

At some level of cold, it is actually dangerous, and not just for the elderly. Let them wear their coats and deal with the mild inconvenience.

nolens volans

On most of the routes I typically fly, wearing a fairly bulky coat onto the plane is more or less obligatory for much of the year. Only the inexperienced try to stuff their coats into the overhead bin, because if everybody did that there would be no room for any bags up there at all. Likewise, nobody is going to pack his or her coat into a suitcase, carry-on or otherwise, because (a) you'll be needing that coat on the apron and probably until at least 15 minutes after the doors are closed; (b) have you ever tried packing a down parka into a 22-inch rollaboard; (c) on your typical flight to Inuqanngitturaalujjuaq or wherever, everybody's bags are already full to capacity with groceries/shopping/booze/contraband tuktuminiq. If there's no closet (), one either wears one's coat during the flight or uses it as a seat liner/pillow. I don't know why this practice isn't more common further south.

jc94

Bartolo

YVRtoYYZ

Had the overhead open to put my stuff back in my bag before landing. While I'm re-packing at my seat, a SE MM decides they can't walk the extra 5 ft to the galley and instead use my open bin at 1K to place their garbage in.