Cheeky passengers on the BSL flight!
Nov 10, 2010, 11:19 am
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So, doing my usual weekly commute from BSL to LHR on Friday evening (with just about, it seems, the rest of the pharma community based here). Seated in the CE cabin and I noticed the most cheeky thing...ET passengers were boarding, putting their bags in the CE overhead bins and then taking their seats in ET! One cheeky bugger even put his rucksack there! I guess they all know that the overhead bins get jammed very quickly...
Precisely the reason why I board early even if I'm in CE! I even commit 'gate lice' for this reason if the flight is a bit full-ish.
Unfortunately, "ET bags in CE" happens all the time on my regular route, along with "ET passengers queuing for CE loo".
Some passengers on my regular route are also so brain-washed by no-assigned-seating-evil that they sit anywhere (read: CE), only to be told by cabin crew that they are in the wrong section, and proceed to argue that they look all the same. I can buy their logic that they look all the same, but still a bit annoying.
Nov 10, 2010, 12:57 pm
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Nov 10, 2010, 12:58 pm
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Smirnoff had a great idea about this. Ask who the bags belong to and if they can move them slightly to allow you to get yours in. When nobody claims them take them out of the locker and leave in the aisle so they have to be loaded in the hold. That'll teach the selfish people who do this to stop. 
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Sadly, there have been quite a few threads recently where the cause of the OP's frustration has been the selfishness and inconsiderate behaviour of others.
As this is all too common in everday life, it is no surprise that it appears in the airport and onboard.
Occasionally, I have to admit that I have acted as above.
Sadly, there have been quite a few threads recently where the cause of the OP's frustration has been the selfishness and inconsiderate behaviour of others.
As this is all too common in everday life, it is no surprise that it appears in the airport and onboard.
Occasionally, I have to admit that I have acted as above.