To the people who regularly abuse the maximum carry on luggage allowances—I hope you end up in the middle seat between the fat guy whose arm flab falls into your seat space and the guy with nasty BO, with a hyperactive 7 year old in the seat behind you kicking your seatback. To the airlines who do nothing about these guys—there is no hell hot enough. —I need my legroom
This article appears in Dec 2-8, 2010.
It’s not the person’s fault, it’s the airline. People have no control over what the airline will allow them to have with them
when i fly, which is very rarely, i take only what i need. if you are only going for a couple of days, why does one need 15 suitcases?
it never fails to amaze me o.p., that some people an’t do with every fucking thing they have at home, including the proverbial kitchin sink.
i saw one woman about 10 years ago, she had no less than 9 pieces of luggage, and she was only going to toronto for the weekend.
I’ve never seen anyone with 15 suitcases at the airport. Most people pack what they need. Some do abuse the carry-on rule, but some airlines also strictly enforce it. Now that people know about “gate-storage” (whereby if your carry-on items will not fit in the overhead compartment, the staff will give the items to the ground crew to place in a cargo hold) they seem to bring more and more. Just look at those people with the huge SUV strollers trying to push it down the aisle.
Op – sorry but if I’m flying with my photography gear and a laptop, I’m NOT checking 10k of equipment under the plane. Deal with it.
excellent point cow.
🙂
same with valuables….
just as in wwe…
you never check your gear.
I don’t understand how this is such a bother? is there no room for your carry-on in the above compartments? Are you afraid the excessive weight will bring down the plane? Do you have to wait a whole extra 90 seconds for them to collect their stuff before exiting before you?
i take a small carry-on with my valuables. have you seen what they do to people’s stuff?
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I try my damndest to only travel with carry-ons. Sorry, OP, but I don’t want to wait around for luggage, frig that! Of course, I’m really good at traveling light. 🙂
I think op is whining because they couldn’t put their carryon in the overhead bin and they must have had to put their carryon under their feet. Boo frickin hoo. You’re allowed 2 pcs plus a purse. I hate watching people with the largest allowed heavy rolly bags, trying to jam them in the overhead bins so that they have leg room. News flash: heavy bags in overhead bins can be dangerous if you hit bad turbulence. If op is that concerned then he/she should cough up the extra cash for first class. Otherwise, its called coach for a reason. Cram on in like a pack of sardenes and enjoy the ride.
I had this one guy beside me go balistic on me because my carry on bag wouldn’t fit in the top compartment (we were on a prop plane). The bag wasn’t even that big, it’s just the fact that the prop planes have tiny overhead compartments and the asshat had his shit under the seats in front of us. He went on about how there was sky check, blahblah and finally I had enough and said “my laptop and my insulin are in that bag. neither of which I’m putting in skycheck” to which he replied “Oh jesus christ.” I finally managed to get the bag up there with some shifting and the plane took off ontime.
Funny thing *is* guy was fatter than fat and squished me up against the window for the entire duration of the flight. Thankfully it was only a 40 minute flight.
Jerkface.
On the way back I had the same bag and the guy sitting beside me (nice older gentleman) offered to help me get it up there, but it just wouldn’t fit so the flight attendant put it in the closet because we were sitting at the very front.
Some people just aren’t fit to fly. Anyone hear about that asswipe married to Fergie who got kicked the fuck off the plane because he wouldn’t shit his crackberry off? FFS.
I hear horror stories about checked luggage being stolen and broken all the time.
Funny that you should call the passengers “abusers” when the reason for this supposed abuse is fear of… ABUSE of their possessions by the airline staff.
Substitute PLANE with BUS – anyone else note the similarities?
I hate flying. I have only flown twice (to and from my destination) and the only carryon I had was my purse (nearly empty since none of the normal things I would have brought in my purse were allowed) and a bookbag with a couple small books and magazines. I am so claustrophobic that I couldn’t imagine bringing more.
I gotta get a purse! may look odd but I can carry more stuff….
I’ll call it a Mans bag..
like Joey. 🙂
Zzz you’d look great in a “murse”
now to find some shoes to match,….
uh, wait a minute.
I don’t think I want to venture down that road anymore.
and HELL NO to the fanny pack.
it’s a european carry-all
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I wonder if Coach does “murses?”
heh he.
Blame the airlines for limiting check-in luggage.
I should clarify my last post. We used to be able to check-in so much more luggage than we can now. Post 9-11 and the fall of the airline industry as well as the rise in fuel price, they have been reducing luggage weight allowance for check-in so much that I sometimes feel like I have to bring 1/4 or even 1/2 empty suitcases with me when I go overseas. I used to put heavy stuff in suitcases and light stuff as carry-on…now I have to do the opposite.
I love flying, hollah, but for some reason it makes my stomach go all wonky and I turn into an asshole in airports (well, usually just pearson, but that’s probably not unique to me :P).
I’m also a middle seat dominator when I’m in a three seater and there’s someone on the end and me by the window. heh.
OMG zZz: NGF has a man purse.
No effing joke.
And sebastard says he’s a homophobe! lol
I fly a lot and regularly see people with not only oversize bags that take up way too much space in the overhead bin, but with 2, 3 or 4 pieces PLUS a laptap or purse. The allowance is 1. So don’t tell me the airlines are enforcing anything, cuz they aren’t. These people not only ignore the rules, they take up more than their allotted space (thus screwing over some other passenger) and take forever to get into their seats and out again at the end of the flight, so everybody is inconvenienced. Oh and by the way, I have never had luggage get lost or damaged and never waited more than 10 or 15 minutes to claim it, as opposed to the 15 minutes I had to wait on the plane while some doucebag strugged with their 4 bags in the overhead bin.
I always get asked to put the extra one on the cart just outside the craft if it is a short flight and only get to take my purse plus 1 small bag. 🙁 Which airline are you flying so you don’t get beaten up for bringing in 4 pieces of luggage?
PK, you could use one of the men in black memory erasers…
and I will still forever remember fat’s purse.
it’s the one with the half-eaten donair and size 19 panties in them.
😉