Man causes scene on American Airlines flight when another passenger uses the overhead bin (video)

[snigs]

Presumably the offspring of:

[anon81034786]

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[Jerry_Sneede]

From what I remember, this kerfuffle was about an overhead bin situation also. This guy’s nutso yelling delayed us just long enough for the tornado warning that grounded the plane, causing everyone to wait until the next day to fly.

walkswithdave

Oh, and nice luggage pareidolia.

[micah]

There are plenty of people with elite status who aren’t self-important assholes. But there are enough of them who ARE self-important assholes, that the experience of flying an airline where they’re extremely rare is kind of refreshing.

I totally get the desire to take advantage of your status. I had NW status for several years (including a couple years as a platinum) and have family members with lifetime status. And I’d much rather fly AA or DL with a free extra legroom seat and free carryons and checked bags (and multiple flights on that route each day in case mine gets canceled) than fly Spirit.

But if you’re choosing between airlines without status (e.g., when your preferred airline doesn’t have a flight that works well for your itinerary), I wouldn’t count Spirit totally out, because the experience of flying Spirit is different but not IMO overall worse than flying without status on the others.

[snigs]

Maybe the tornado would have intersected with the plane if he hadn’t done that. He could have been sent from the future to save you.

[hecep]

@anon33932455

It is tremendously annoying, to me, when someone walks onto a flight, places their stuff in the first bin, and then goes to their seat in the back of the plane. It takes space from the passenger in the seat underneath, and it slows down boarding.

That certainly gives an audacious and vigilant thief seated near that “first bin” to easily swipe that stuff during deboarding while its owner is still way back in the plane and slow moving with the rest of the ‘back of the plane’ crowd.

[euansmith]

Turning Carry-on in to Fuck-off Luggage.

@Sunnymoon Welcome aboard, comrade.

[anon61221983]

All thanks to the sharp eye of @Tee_sea…

[stinkinbadgers]

@hecep

That certainly gives an audacious and vigilant thief seated near that “first bin” to easily swipe that stuff during deboarding while its owner is still way back in the plane and slow moving with the rest of the ‘back of the plane’ crowd.

I am usually flying with a fragile expensive musical instrument and I remember our high school orchestra teacher telling us to make sure it’s not in a bin in front of you, only behind, so no one can walk off with it. Of course with cameras saturating airports it’s less of a concern, but it’s still a good rule.

Mostly I just get annoyed when people decide that their roll-aboard Must bam be able bam to fit bam as they slam their suitcase into it. Then the flight attendant comes by and on the newer style bins if they close it quickly (almost always) instead of carefully (almost never) it flips over (very bad). So mostly after I board and sit I’m in a state of mild panic eyeing people eyeing the bin until pulling away from the gate. I sometimes do have to leap up and tell someone, that ain’t gonna fit, trust me.

[hecep]

Interesting plushie sightings are quite rare on this site.

[hecep]

@stinkinbadgers

that ain’t gonna fit, trust me.

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[technothrasher]

@sdmikev

And they were taking backpacks out of the overhead and handing them to passengers.
THAT one drives me the craziest.

Drives you crazy that people put backpacks in the overhead? When I fly most often all I have is a backpack, and I’ve got long legs so it’s pretty uncomfortable to have the backpack under the seat in front of me. Why can’t I put my smaller backpack overhead, but if I’d brought a bigger carry-on taking up more space it would be ok? That doesn’t make any sense.

[anon33932455]

Welcome!

[FGD135]

[anon85524460]

Either that or they were pulling the backpacks out and making the passengers put them under the seat in front of them or on their laps for the flight. I’ve seen SW do that.

[micah]

It’s illegal to keep a backpack on your lap during takeoff or landing. It must either be in the overhead bin or under the seat in front of you.

I’ve occasionally seen FAs ask people to put a backpack under their seat to make room for a rollaboard. I don’t like it for the exact same reason as @technothrasher (I’m also tall and usually fly with just a backpack, and I don’t want my bag taking up my legroom just because my carry-on is smaller than someone else’s). But I understand that sometimes the FAs are just trying to help make the plane take off on time. And in the rare event that I’m asked to keep my backpack under my seat for takeoff, I can almost always find space to stuff it into an overhead bin after takeoff.

The more annoying thing I (actually my wife) encountered recently was a gate agent who forced her to gate check her guitar to make room for later-boarding passengers’ rollaboards. There are actually federal regulations that require the airlines to allow a guitar in the overhead bin as long as there is space for it at the time the passenger boards. But the gate agent absolutely refused to let her board the plane with the guitar, despite it being a clear violation of federal regs. Luckily, the guitar was unharmed.

[evadrepus]

Before the baggage fees started getting out of control, those overhead bins were empty half the time. The case mentioned above with a family of 4, including small child, each with a full rolly is basically what the airlines have driven us to.

It’s literally the only reason I have an AAdvantage credit card. I use it only for booking family flights so that I can check everything for free and not use the bins.