You’re Probably Stowing Your Carry On Bags Wrong In The Overhead Bin [Roundup]

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  1. The problem with the new overhead bins is that they require cooperation and respect for others in order to work – and those concepts are completely foreign to Americans that believe that getting their own bag in the overhead bin is all that matters.
    When half of the people boarding a plane are talking on a phone or listening to something, working together for other people’s benefit is the last thing on their mind.
    I commend flight attendants that keep making announcements about how to store bags and bothering to move bags around to make more space – but ultimately it has to come down to removing bags that don’t fit or aren’t properly stored and sending them to baggage claim.
    I was on a flight recently where a guy stuck his rollerboard in the overhead bin so that the door would clearly not close and then walked away. When the aisle finally cleared, the FAs asked for the owner of the offending bag and if they could move it to first class, the guy said “you can pitch it out the front door as far as I care; I am going home” and he was serious.
    Good thing Delta flight attendants at least get boarding pay to put up with that kind of stuff.

  2. Some folks are hollow between the ears. If they can’t properly dress how do you expect them to properly que for boarding and stow their bags.

  3. Thanks for the tip. I hadn’t realized this. I have not heard FA’s announcement. I think they should put a big poster in the sitting area fore people to be forced to see it before they board. They put COVID19 posters everywhere to ensure we would not miss the message. I travel often and was not aware of this piece of information. I do not travel to the east coast often about 1x a year most of the other travel is in the West coast and HI – even my trips to HI I do not recall any message.

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