Reply #100: Check all the message boards about bin wars

[mainer]

your behavior (filling bins at the front of the plane and then heading on back to your seat) is usually tops on the list of things that passengers get enraged about. So I'm not alone in feeling it's as inappropriate to stuff bags in bins on the way to your seat. You leave people in front forced to check THEIR bags or cram everything at their feet.

And honestly, if you stuff all your stuff over the heads of three passengers who are left without any place to leave their stuff, it's not too surprising that they'd ask the flight attendant to find someplace else for that luggage that no one nearby is claiming.

This website lays it out all clearly as scumbag behavior:


"Five ways to beat the competition to the overhead bin
by Tom Johansmeyer (RSS feed) on Oct 28th 2009 at 2:00PM

There's nothing so gauche as to stick your carry-on into an overhead bin far ahead of your seat, grab a book or magazine from it and walk 17 rows back to your seat. Because, whether you know it (or give a damn), one of the passengers sitting under your bag may not have a place to put his. Then, when the plane settles in at the gate, he'll try to shove his way to the back of the plane (where he was forced to stow his stuff) while everyone else is moving the other way. It's a recipe for disaster.


1. Board early
Chance favors the prepared. Get onto the plane as soon as you can. If you have elite status, use it. Linger by the gate to wait for your zone to be called. Then, strike when the announcement is made.

2. Be honest
You could become a scumbag and toss your carry-ons into the first overhead bins you see ... or you could play it straight and put your bags in the appropriate bin. Become a part of the solution, not the problem..."


http://www.gadling.com/2009/10/28/five-ways-to-beat-the-competition-to-the-overhead-bin/

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And flight attendants are now starting to get into enforcement:

"Once you're aboard the airplane with your bag, you're still not home free. If you're seated in the front of the plane, you'll sometimes find your bin space already filled with the bags of passengers who are sitting in the back. McKeen says that on one recent flight from Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport to Hartford, a flight attendant put a halt to that practice.

"She stopped, made them take their bag out and said, 'The bin space up here is for the passengers seated up here. Take your bag to where you are seated.' " He said one passenger challenged her, but the flight attendant threatened to kick him off the plane, and the man backed down."



http://www.statesman.com/life/battle-of-the-bin-strategy-for-winning-the-57742.html