fNews and notes from around the interweb:
- Mean. The old Southwest would never.
@SouthwestAir on flight 167, HOU-MSY, an elderly woman got up during descent. Male FA yelled @her to sit down as her companion said the same. FA got up& pushed her in her seat. WHY? She may have been a novice traveler but was def older &shouldn't have been touched. #RetrainFAs pic.twitter.com/pj1YHQ2Fkq
— Bam Hall (@BamHall2) September 14, 2025
- Since this is entirely about the airline’s operational convenience, forget ConnectionSaver, we need CarryonBagSaver.
Hey @united why do your gate guys ALWAYS lie about no overhead bin space and forcing us to check our bags when there’s plenty????? This is absolute BS. pic.twitter.com/lcbnngcv7I
— Lexie (@pixielexiee) September 15, 2025
- And this was never really an issue before with Southwest – free checked bags meant passengers didn’t all try to carry their belongings onboard to avoid fees. Now there’s not enough bin space and a whole lot of confiscating passenger bags. Sad!
@SouthwestAir making all of group C and Partial group B gate check bags— why? As I knew, plenty of space- this is 1 of several area open areas. Customer care replaced for ease of the employees. Yes while we all want to leave on time, this is ridiculous. pic.twitter.com/zjeeXfYSor
— Shanna (@Shannachaberry) September 15, 2025
- Much better than what passengers seem to usually get when American puts them up for the night, to be honest – no complaints about filth. I’m impressed!
@AmericanAir we paid $4,000 for flight from DFW today. After 8 hours at the airport, flight cancelled until tomorrow and you put us in a Motel 6. No shampoo; 1 bar of soap half the size of a business card for two people to shower with; no restaurants anywhere nearby. pic.twitter.com/SOTxJhOPRd
— Paul Novak (@NovakPhoenix) September 15, 2025
- Why is everything at airports so expensive?
- American Airlines spends $32 million on boarding pay in first five months of flight attendant contract
she is still standing after FA has time to reach her and after her companion didn’t help her to sit down? More to the story here I think
“Hey @united why do your gate guys ALWAYS lie about no overhead bin space and forcing us to check our bags when there’s plenty?????”
This has been discussed and debunked before.
Gate agents at every airline have very limited time and are under tremendous pressure to close out the flight on time. It’s impossible for them to predict which passengers use the overhead bins with bags that could have fit under the seat, and vice-versa, as they board.
At United gate agents text back and forth with the flight attendants about remaining overhead space (“We can take 6 more bags”) but you still have passengers in the jetway, past the gate agents, bit not in sight of the flight attendants – how many? How many have roller boards?
Some of the unused overhead space seen is also in 1st class – saved for those passengers when some do board towards the end. I’ve seen flight attendants at many airlines only allow 1st class passengers to use 1st class bins. That part of the plane has fewer people, so the bins have fewer bags and often some open space.
Most of the time they get it right. But sometimes they will cut it off a little early because it’s FAR better for the flight to go on time and everyone to make their connections, than to get 2-3 people stuck at the back of the plane, large bag in hand, who have to wait until the end to get their bag up to the front again to gate check it. When that happens, the flight almost always departs late. And we’d see the tweet, “Thanks, United, for making me miss my connection…”
Yes, because if she had been standing when the plane hit the ground it would have been a far better outcome. (Snark here). There’s a reason flight attendants are instructed to get everyone seated for landing.
@George Nathan Romey — We need more ‘snark,’ sir! Time to excessively claim damages for assault, battery, attempted murder… and, of course, demand everyone be fired everywhere always!
I actually LOVE the fact that Southwest now begs for those who fly to gate check their bags because of a lack of overhead space – it allows me to not have to pay for my second piece of luggage – as it used to be before SouthWorst was bought out and ruined by the bean counters now in charge.