agree if your total number of carryons (backpack + coat) is under the limit.
that said, they do ask (usually nicely enough) to wait on coats. coats can often be jammed into spaces that a bag can’t. So even if you get it up there early, I expect them to manhandle the coat in a reorg of stuff if they need to.
Gate checking luggage isnt the end of the world. You get it immediately upon landing
I’m torn on that one. I have gotten used to driving alone or at least it seems I’m alone since my wife is usually asleep for most of the trip. She has an ability to sit in the passengers seat and sleep regardless of whether she is tired or not. She also can drive for hours and hours without a break, so it isn’t just being in the car. I helped my DD and SIL move from GA to NV then UT to GA then GA to NV again driving their truck pulling a small trailer. I loved it. I probably could have been a long haul truck driver if I hadn’t been as good at math as I was.
Correct but then they closed the damn overhead and i had to get up and say open it back up fucker. The guy next to me wound up holding his coat because they closed all the bins immediately after everyone boarded. This was after making us wait. If you’re going to make us wait, help us find a spot for our coats at the end, don’t freaking close it all for me to have to yell to fucking stop.
The coat of the guy next to me wasnt as bulky as mine though but he did want it in the overhead
I have another question regarding overbooking.
My English SIL was supposed to fly from Vancouver to London yesterday connecting through Las Vegas. He was denied boarding on the LV to LHR leg as there was no room for him. Sounds like simple overbooking to me but Virgin Atlantic is not offering him compensation? I thought both the UK and the US have overbooking compensation so was puzzled by VA’s response. He has rebooked BA to LHR tonight but is out of pocket for Vegas hotel and other costs. Just doesn’t sound right to me.
One complicating factor for him is that he booked through an intermediary so the affected airlines say he has to deal with that agent rather than with them. Even when it costs a bit more, it may be better to book directly with the airlines so that at least they will talk to you.
I don’t know what additional rules that might apply to consolidator tickets.
I thought responsibility ultimately fell to the airline regardless of how it was booked but I’m not 100% sure. Some airlines are just jerks about EU261.
Never dealt with VA. Lufthansa just never responded to me. Tried calling and leaving messages, filled out the EU261 form they had online, radio silence. I wound up using a company called Air Help, who will work it for you in exchange for a third of what they get you. They got money in my bank account in like a week and a half. So that’s an option.
BA had a form I filled out online, and they paid me in a few weeks with zero hassle.
I expect you are right.
Some airlines are just better than others when it comes to compliance.
I wonder who AirHelp had to pay at Lufthansa for 10% of your refund.
For full-sized airliners, when they’re talking about gate-checking rollaboards, you usually have to go to the baggage claim at your final destination to pick it up.
While I never check luggage, my wife doesn’t travel as light. When we flew home from the holidays last week, our flight got in at 11:30pm. The baggage claim didn’t start vomiting bags until 12:15am…and my wife’s were the last ones to appear, reminding me why I hate checking luggage.
this doesn’t convince me that it’s the end of the world and that your suitcase is more worthy of overheard than my coat.
it also doesn’t usually take 45 minutes in my experience.
45 minutes was long even compared to my wife’s past trips…but half-hour waits are not uncommon for the late night arrivals at my home airport.
As long as it’s “use the space around your seat first if you can; and anything that doesn’t fit goes into the overhead bin”, I’m indifferent as to what’s going overhead.
i can’t use the space around my seat first for my coat. it’s annoyingly bulky. why should i be uncomfortable while your wife gets to put her luggage in the overhead exactly?
I’m saying that my 1 item that doesn’t fit in at/under seat storage should have equal priority to your 1 item, assuming it’s just one item going up.
(I mentioned my wife’s luggage because waiting for it is a reminder of why I avoid checking bags. Her carry-ons get priority over almost everyone else’s due to the amount of medication and prescription devices she totes when visiting her family for a few weeks.)
It definitely shouldn’t matter what you’re putting into the overhead bin.
That said, I’d probably wait to put my coat up there because I wouldn’t want some jerk to put his rollerboard on top of or in front of my coat and smash it & get it all dirty in the process. Purely selfish, non-altruistic motive.
If ao_fan doesn’t have a roller board and her coat takes up the same or less space than one and she wants to put it in the overhead bin immediately upon boarding, she should absolutely be permitted to do so IMO.
Or she should have the option of gate-checking her giant coat.
do you only have a coat? or do you put luggage and a coat overhead?
Coat and backpack. But if it was just a coat it wouldn’t matter. They would still say no
The dumb thing when flight attendants ask people to please wait to stow your coats until everyone has boarded and stowed their luggage: no way they expect everyone in window/middle seats to get up after boarding. Would delay departure. They certainly never make an announcement that everyone can get up and stow their coats now.
And they close the overhead and i have to yell at them to stop and i only wound up getting my coat up there because i had an aisle seat. The guy next to me in the window seat also wanted his coat up there but gave up at that point