Comments on: Business Passenger Removes Economy Bag from Overhead Bin: The Poors Can’t Use My Space!

By: Robb

Robb — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:14:09 +0000

I wish UAL and the Kirby Vacuum Man would reserve the space like Delta and American.

By: Bill Dwyer

Bill Dwyer — Tue, 30 Jan 2024 23:43:48 +0000

Ditto to what jsn55 and others said here:
I fly first/business maybe a third of the time.
When I’m in economy, I accept the fact that I paid less, either in cash, or points/miles. And I don’t stow my luggage in a higher class area.
So when I AM able to book first or business – most recently for well more than a thousand dollars, not miles- I want to know that part of the deal is that I don’t have to worry about people ahead of me hogging the overhead bin.
Why is it such a big deal for people to accept that you get what you pay for, and you’re not entitled to what you didn’t pay for?
My most recent ticket to Central America came with lounge access. The economy ticket I flew on the year before didn’t. That’s how it works.

By: Peter Brewmaker

Peter Brewmaker — Tue, 30 Jan 2024 23:36:50 +0000

I pay for business class and that gives me the privilege of sharing that overhead space with my fellow business class passengers. So you expect my bagged to be checked while the other passenger’s bag stays in the overhead space ? BTW, I travel both Economy and Business so I am not being classist here.

By: krissy

krissy — Tue, 30 Jan 2024 23:29:35 +0000

The passenger who paid his $ for the better seat shouldn’t be rudely reminded by the passenger who took the space that wasn’t his to take, to be careful. Nope. He was lucky the luggage didn’t end up thrown at him.

By: joanie adams

joanie adams — Tue, 30 Jan 2024 23:14:30 +0000

I more often than not see people stuff their carry on in FC overheads so they don’t have to hunt open space or just so they can grab their bag (s) on the way out.

By: SMK77

SMK77 — Tue, 30 Jan 2024 22:48:18 +0000

Another unhinged opinion piece by Gary Leff. It’s so sad what nonsense is published on this blog in recent month.

How can a bin be reserved for Business if any Economy bag already placed in the bin won’t be removed? Then it’s just another first come first serve space.

By: StarGoldUA

StarGoldUA — Tue, 30 Jan 2024 21:59:17 +0000

@M. Casey
I hear you.
Same reason why I stopped carrying a light back pack on a short trips and forced myself to bring a Full size carry on which is easily half empty.
Even as 1k, boarding early, FA will tell me 90% of time to put backpack under seat in front, just because it fits while that’s the only item I have.
Okay then !!

By: Hornet

Hornet — Tue, 30 Jan 2024 21:47:31 +0000

The Economy passenger must have “boarded late” too, if the only place left to put his bag was up front. Or, more likely, he boarded on time but chose not to bring his bag into the cabin he was assigned, because it made HIS life easier to stow it up front.

People pay double to sit up front because they want (or need) the perks and conveniences that come with that. And we’re not all rich. We just know that the privileges of biz/first don’t come cheap, so we build the extra cost into our budget. Those bins belong to the passengers who paid a premium to not worry about overhead space.

If your seat is in Economy, so is your bag… UNLESS Economy is full and there is free, unneeded space up front and the crew makes the decision. And while I’m on the subject, they all need to do a better job of making sure no one even makes it past the gate with more or bigger items than allowed, and don’t put more than one in the overhead bin. It’s their job, not mine, to enforce THEIR rules.

By: Frank

Frank — Tue, 30 Jan 2024 21:42:04 +0000

You are one hundred percent wrong. The coach passenger was wholly the problem.

By: BBK

BBK — Tue, 30 Jan 2024 21:21:37 +0000

exactly as Jimmy ‘Say’ said!

No Gary, the F pax wasn’t a jerk. There’s an even more professional tip for this case which I learned on a flight, where the last arriving F pax found the overhead bins full, and took one bag over his assigned seat, asked everyone in F if it belong to any of us, and as nobody claimed it, he proceeded to gate check to whichever destination (that wasn’t the direct routing of the US domestic flight where this happened).

Even in this case, he wasn’t a jerk.