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It just makes sense that the space above your seat is yours.
No, it's not. If that were the intent, they would number spaces in the overhead to correspond with the seats. Flight and gate attendants tell you that overhead space is first come, first served.
As it is, an overhead compartment may span two or more rows, which could mean 6 or more passengers. That overhead won't have space for 6 rollaboards.
Plus the fact, that on Southwest, you can sit in front and get off quicker.
Planes are so jam packed with FAT people (you know who you are) that it takes forever to get off if you are unfortunate enough to get stuck in the rear of the aircraft.
I have seen people take advantage of available carry on space by taking huge items or multiple bags. It just makes sense that the space above your seat is yours.
Except that a decent number of overhead bins are blocked off for emergency or crew gear, leaving you with no bin space directly overhead.
I agree, it's the overhead space. I was on a flight once where a guy went to put his bag in the overhead space above his own seat and it was full. He yanked out someone else's bag, sent it sliding down the aisle, put in his bag and sat down.
We were all silently cheering.
You were cheering?? When he threw someone's bag out of the compartment?? Americans are sicker than I thought.
Obviously with children or impaired people it makes sense, but single people who rush to sit on the plane just to sit there doing nothing for literally an hour before takeoff. Why? I actually find it a troubling curiosity of humankind that people get so cutthroat to board a thing that won't leave until everyone is on anyway...
Makes no sense to me either. It's not like they are going to get there faster.
I have seen people take advantage of available carry on space by taking huge items or multiple bags. It just makes sense that the space above your seat is yours. After everyone is seated and has their bag settled above, then any free space is up for grabs. I don't know if I would have kicked it down the aisle, but I would have moved it.
Spoken like a true amature traveler. Overhead bin space is limited and CAN NOT accomodate a carryon for each seat. Thinking that the space above your seat is yours is just plain st_ _ _ _ _ ty!
I travel for work too (sometimes first class if it's overseas) and both these points are correct.
I carry a small duffel/suitcase (it is of the accepted specified dimensions) and small laptop backpack on trips. I ALWAYS keep the laptop bag under my seat and usually board in the first few groups so I can put the duffel in overhead over my seat, not someone else's. I never take more than that amount of space.
I have the same experience. I suppose if one only travelled a few times a year, it wouldn't matter so much. But particularly on domestic flights that are longer (and in Europe, regional flights generally do not have first class, so everyone is smashed into economy), it is good to get on early so that I can make sure my bags end up around me, and not my handbag at my feet and my laptop case way behind me, so that when the plane lands, I have to fight upstream against 200 people to get to my bag, collect it, then turn around and leave the plane, often with a very tight connection to the next plane.
Traveling Executive First or First Class internationally, you just get to go settle, get your things put away, take off your jacket, freshen up, then have a cool drink before the flight starts, which is nice, particularly if you are going long distances.
I have seen people take advantage of available carry on space by taking huge items or multiple bags.
Ohhhh that drives me nuts. They dont want their bag under the seat in front of them, because they want the legroom, so they put it in the space over your head, as though you have less right to space than they do.
I agree, it's the overhead space. I was on a flight once where a guy went to put his bag in the overhead space above his own seat and it was full. He yanked out someone else's bag, sent it sliding down the aisle, put in his bag and sat down. We were all silently cheering.
I don't think the OP can make that presumption about other passengers since there wasn't any ostensible cheering or party hats being passed around. But rest assured, there were at least two immature and rude adults on that flight!
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