Overhead lockers on planes.
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When you fly coach class (the only way we're allowed to fly, if at all), the only way you can use the underseat storage is if you're a dwarf. I'm 6'1", and I need that space to put my damned feet.
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I've always flown coach, never had that issue. Then again, I'm not as tall as you...but I'm only a few inches shorter. But I tend to keep my legs perpendicular to the floor, so the space under the seat isn't where my feet go.
My legs are long. If I kept them perpendicular to the floor, my knees end up smacking the sides of my head.
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My legs are long. If I kept them perpendicular to the floor, my knees end up smacking the sides of my head.
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What are the rules? If someone from another row or part of the plane rams the locker with an over sized bag am I wrong to take it out to make room for my own bag? (adheres to the rules on carry-on luggage size).
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Whenever possible, I pack everything into luggage that can be carried on. Too many news reports of checked luggage items gone missing and mysteriously appearing in a baggage handlers living room. And then there is the "handling" when they put it on and take it off the plane - you would think they were training for the Olympic Games hammer / discus toss. I do enjoy seeing the passengers with duffel bags the size of a house trying to jam them into the overhead and their "why doesn't it fit :confused: " perplexed look :laugh: and I am just waiting to see someone put their pet carrier in an overhead across from them :~ (so the pet piddle doesn't fall on them X| )
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What I don't understand is, what's the difference if it's overhead or in baggage compartment it's same weight so why charge for it?
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Version 3.0 now available. There is no place like 127.0.0.1Mike Hankey wrote:
What I don't understand is, what's the difference if it's overhead or in baggage compartment it's same weight so why charge for it?
Luggage transfer. If you only have cabin luggage, they have nothing to do because you take care of your luggage. But if you have checkin luggage, they need a mechanism to transfer your luggage from the check-in counter to the luggage trailer vehicle to the plane to another luggage trailer vehicle, and again to the conveyor belt in YOUR destination airport (different people may depart at different airports). The cost involved in having all this in place should be recovered. Note that it's better if a carrier charges you for your checkin luggage. Because if they're not charging, they've added a default checkin charge for you (even if you don't have any checkin luggage).
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What's even more worrying is when you find the dingy stuff in the lockers, once on a monarch flight the dingy was stuffed in the toilets next to the cockpit :omg:
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Metro RSSNorm .net wrote:
dingy was stuffed in the toilets next to the cockpit
I hope that you utilised this excellent opportunity to (literally) piss on the luggage of those insensible ones. :)
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I stick with carry-on that fits under the seat. No one else can take that space from you :-D
lewax00 wrote:
I stick with carry-on that fits under the seat. No one else can take that space from you
I take it that you haven't flown in India. :laugh:
"Real men drive manual transmission" - Rajesh.
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What are the rules? If someone from another row or part of the plane rams the locker with an over sized bag am I wrong to take it out to make room for my own bag? (adheres to the rules on carry-on luggage size).
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair. nils illegitimus carborundum me, me, me
Kindly ask the stewardesses to help you place your "medium", uh, bag.
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Mike Hankey wrote:
What I don't understand is, what's the difference if it's overhead or in baggage compartment it's same weight so why charge for it?
Luggage transfer. If you only have cabin luggage, they have nothing to do because you take care of your luggage. But if you have checkin luggage, they need a mechanism to transfer your luggage from the check-in counter to the luggage trailer vehicle to the plane to another luggage trailer vehicle, and again to the conveyor belt in YOUR destination airport (different people may depart at different airports). The cost involved in having all this in place should be recovered. Note that it's better if a carrier charges you for your checkin luggage. Because if they're not charging, they've added a default checkin charge for you (even if you don't have any checkin luggage).
"Real men drive manual transmission" - Rajesh.
Rajesh R Subramanian wrote:
But if you have checkin luggage, they need a mechanism to transfer your luggage from the check-in counter to the luggage trailer vehicleto the plane to another luggage trailer vehicle, and again to the conveyor belt in YOUR destination airport (different people may depart at different airports). The cost involved in having all this in place should be recovered.
It's a lot simpler than that it goes from the check-in counter and goes the opposite way your going. When I used to frequently fly I carried on what I couldn't afford to lose and if it were a longer trip I put the rest in carry-n, because they 9 out of 10 they lost it.
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lewax00 wrote:
I stick with carry-on that fits under the seat. No one else can take that space from you
I take it that you haven't flown in India. :laugh:
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