How big is your coat???
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Yes basically. Its also long
Or you could just open it again? Passengers open and close those doors all the time. Iâve done it to grab a pill that I accidentally stowed in my suitcase rather than my personal item.
Anyway, I have a coat like that, and when I fly with it, I drape it over my seat and just treat it as extra padding. Itâs too large to fit in the overhead bins after the suitcases have all been stowed, and I CAN sit on it, unlike my suitcase.
I try to avoid checking luggage. Iâve had a number of bad experiences trying to retrieve checked luggage. I would sit on my bulky coat for 10 flights to avoid having to check luggage on one. I usually fly with a smaller jacket, but I just assume that my clothing is going to share the seat with me.
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and open several overheads to find one that will fit my jacket? you canât admit that the flight attendant is being a jerk by closing it after making us wait?
ANYWAY, i find it uncomfortable sitting on a bulky coat. iâd be fine gate checking a coat, but thatâs not a thing.
thing is, if i didnât have a backpack and JUST wanted to put my coat up there, youâre saying too bad, you shouldnât be allowed to and instead the cheep people who donât check luggage get the overhead.
When the plane is full, people who couldnât afford to check luggage can do it for free. The people who still bring suitcases aboard are those who donât want to check their suitcase. They may have drugs they need, or have a time crunch, or just not trust the airline. But being forced to check your bag when you donât want to is more of an imposition than having to sit on your coat, unless your coat has spikes on it or something.
Incorrect
The point of checking a bag is to not have to lug it around the airport. If you dont check it and therefore dont want to spend the money it gives no advantage to gate check it regardless of whats in the bag because you already lugged it around. At that point i never volunteer.
If your meds are so important put them in a bag that fits under the seat.
My sitting comfortably is just as important
United just offered $800 to anyone who would catch a later flight to a different city ($100-150 Lyft ride away from original destination). I said yes but then there was a no show so back on the original flight.
I get it lucy, you think your comfort is more important than mine
Maybe you could bring a large bag you can fit it in? Then you can have space for the large bag in the overhead bins and no one would say anything, and your backpack can go under your seat.
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Did you get to keep the $800?
Yup. I think the certainty of the exams Iâm grading actually arriving on time, or the meds i need, is more important than whether you like to sit on your coat.
Once upon a time, airplanes had a closet up front for coats and hanging bags. It was never very large, maybe it was intended for first class, and passengers whose clothes were too important to get wrinkled. But since then theyâve expanded the space thatâs designed to exactly fit rollerboards and removed the coat space. So my priorities seem to match the airlinesâ.
I like twigâs idea. Get a light nylon zipper compartment thing that you can fold up into a pocket, and then unfold into a suitcase-sized thing to put your coat into. Voila, you now have the same luggage request as everyone else on the plane.
Put your meds in a carry on under the seat
Arent exams computer based? I dont believe youâre flying with a stack of exams
And if you are, dont fly the lowest level of coach to be forced to check a bag. Are you that cheap?
They are computer based now. But yes, Iâve traveled several times with a stack of paper exams which i want allowed to check. And i assume there are still people who have stuff like that in carryon. And my employer is cheap. I was only allowed to fly the lowest level of coach. I buy a higher level when Iâm flying on my own dime, but itâs complicated to upgrade a flight my employer pays for, and Iâm too cheap to give up that reimbursement.
Once, i foolishly flew Spirit Air and had to pay extra for my carryon bag with exams on it. That was annoying. Although paying for the bag also bought me a slightly larger seat or something.
(The CAS eventually reimburses, but they donât reimburse as much as my employer, and itâs a lot simpler to keep it all together.)
Some of us are âblessedâ to have a volume of prescriptions that fill up desk drawers.
Combine that with computers, chargers, batteries, travel documents, the contents of your purse/murse and the purse/murse itself (if you typically carry one), supplies needed if a connection is busted and you get stuck overnight⌠thatâs potentially a lot of stuff to go in an under-seat bag.
And there are people who arenât cheap, but poor, who may also need to not lose their bag or be delayed and miss a connecting flight or⌠All the other things that can go wrong when you check a bag.
Anyway, if you buy a light thing that looks like luggage that you can put your coat into, you will look to the flight attendant like everyone else trying to stow their one carry-on, and not like an asshole trying to store a huge coat on addition to your carryon. And you didnât have a bag, but i bet the flight attendant didnât know that. They certainly didnât know that unless you specifically told them, which takes their attention away from all the other stuff they need to do during boarding. If you can bundle your coat to look like luggage, i bet your onboarding experience will be a lot smoother.
Well then that is your problem for being cheap. Shouldnt mean i need to suffer when i upgraded my seat and checked everything other than my coat
This stuff is oh so important but youre cheap. I see
And the stack of exams isnt even a thing anymore
Cool. So does not mean i need to be uncomfortable with my coat that easily fits in the overhead
I do print off the exams Iâm grading when I go to central grading. I still have an electronic copy, but the SOA would be pretty pissed if I lost those exams (theyâre supposed to be shredded, as they are confidential). I never put them in my luggage, I keep them with my laptop and make sure they stay with me.
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If youâre poor, dont fly. I didnt fly until my 20s.