Is responsibility for your own bag too much to ask?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm short. Some newer interior designs are configured in a way that I simply cannot reach the overhead compartment, even on my tippy toes. If my bag meets the requirements for size and weight the airline publishes, then I should be able to store it on board even if I need help getting it into the storage compartment provided.

Airlines don't provide the service of transporting your handbags throughout the airport, so I'm not sure who is complaining about bags they can't carry on their own.

Nope.

This sounds like the type of person who doesnt return their shopping carts because that's someone elses job Entitled pricks all around.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm short. Some newer interior designs are configured in a way that I simply cannot reach the overhead compartment, even on my tippy toes. If my bag meets the requirements for size and weight the airline publishes, then I should be able to store it on board even if I need help getting it into the storage compartment provided.

Airlines don't provide the service of transporting your handbags throughout the airport, so I'm not sure who is complaining about bags they can't carry on their own.

How short are you? I’m barely over 5 feet and this isn’t a problem. There is no “should” in air travel. If you think you can’t lift it, then check it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm short. Some newer interior designs are configured in a way that I simply cannot reach the overhead compartment, even on my tippy toes. If my bag meets the requirements for size and weight the airline publishes, then I should be able to store it on board even if I need help getting it into the storage compartment provided.

Airlines don't provide the service of transporting your handbags throughout the airport, so I'm not sure who is complaining about bags they can't carry on their own.

How short are you? I’m barely over 5 feet and this isn’t a problem. There is no “should” in air travel. If you think you can’t lift it, then check it.

I fly ALL the time and there are always men around to help people in these situations. You are doing them a service by letting them help you. Flight attendants do not have to be involved.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:On another site I read a complaint that blew my mind--that there is no communication from the airlines that you are expected to be able to lift your own bag into the overhead compartment. I was honestly gobsmacked by this. I have never packed a bag that I couldn't lift, carry, or generally manage by myself. Barring disability, do you think it's an unreasonable expectation that people can deal with their own bags and not expect the flight attendants to take care of them? And do you think that expectation needs to be communicated better by airlines?

Well good for you and your physical prowess, Gobsmacker. I guess the elderly, the disabled, and short people should just fend for themselves. Make them all check their bags (including the ones with their medication or medical devices) and just STFU. That way, it gives lots of jack@sses like you more room to gloat.

So, to get this straight, you bring bags along that you cannot physically manage by yourself, and just expect that someone else will deal with them for you.

[Anonymous]

I always thought that was pretty clear. Flight attendants shouldn't be expected to handle passenger carry ons, even if they might be willing to help out in a pinch. I have told my elderly mother to check her bags since she isn't able to get them into the overhead.

[Anonymous]

I feel like OP is looking for something to be outraged about. I've never been on a flight that didn't have little old ladies, or children, or wheelchair-bound passengers. There are always a few people who need help. Luckily we live in a society and most people are happy to help, or if not help, then get out of the way so someone else can help.

What is the mental condition that makes you sit at home, not even on a plane, and get angry about an imagined scenario where someone smaller/weaker/more infirm than you might "get away" with having their bag stowed for them? This is something I'm seeing more and more, and I can't tell if it's just trolling or spending so much time reading trolling online that the pathways in your brain break and convince you that this is a reasonable thought pattern that takes over your actual life.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm short. Some newer interior designs are configured in a way that I simply cannot reach the overhead compartment, even on my tippy toes. If my bag meets the requirements for size and weight the airline publishes, then I should be able to store it on board even if I need help getting it into the storage compartment provided.

Airlines don't provide the service of transporting your handbags throughout the airport, so I'm not sure who is complaining about bags they can't carry on their own.

How short are you? I’m barely over 5 feet and this isn’t a problem. There is no “should” in air travel. If you think you can’t lift it, then check it.

I fly ALL the time and there are always men around to help people in these situations. You are doing them a service by letting them help you. Flight attendants do not have to be involved.

Men? I’m the shortie and I can lift my bag and my kids as needed and I help people to keep things moving but I would never bring a bag I can’t possibly lift and look around helplessly waiting for some man to feel sorry for me. I would just check my bag.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm short. Some newer interior designs are configured in a way that I simply cannot reach the overhead compartment, even on my tippy toes. If my bag meets the requirements for size and weight the airline publishes, then I should be able to store it on board even if I need help getting it into the storage compartment provided.

Airlines don't provide the service of transporting your handbags throughout the airport, so I'm not sure who is complaining about bags they can't carry on their own.

How short are you? I’m barely over 5 feet and this isn’t a problem. There is no “should” in air travel. If you think you can’t lift it, then check it.

I fly ALL the time and there are always men around to help people in these situations. You are doing them a service by letting them help you. Flight attendants do not have to be involved.

Men? I’m the shortie and I can lift my bag and my kids as needed and I help people to keep things moving but I would never bring a bag I can’t possibly lift and look around helplessly waiting for some man to feel sorry for me. I would just check my bag.

I can't imagine anyone being this pathetic, but apparently they exist =\

[Anonymous]

As a workers' compensation specialist, here's why flight attendants are neither required and oftentimes not even allowed to assist with overhead bags. Doing so fundamentally changes the nature of the job from a light duty job to a medium to heavy duty job. It increases the number of injuries to staff exponentially and it significantly increases the cost of workplace injuries. It takes much more rehabilitation to recover sufficiently to perform a medium to heavy job, if that is even possible, than it does to return to a light duty job. That means greater costs for medical care and greater costs for lost time plus the overtime to cover the shifts vacated by injured workers.

So, people should be prepared to either handle their own bags or have their bags checked when they board the plane if they cannot. I don't really understand why people expect that airlines provide this service, but in fact, they do not.

[Anonymous]

The people who think they are entitled to a porter to handle their bags are likely also the same people who think the spot in overhead directly above their seat is assigned to them.

[Anonymous]

I do not help people with their bags because I do not want to injury myself or them.

[Anonymous]

Put the medicine in the light personal item or squishy carry on. Pack and check your luggage. Try flying with a 7 kg carryon limit and you learn.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you cherry-pick the craziest complaints of the internet, and post here to complain about them...

... you are the crazy one.

I truly hope you understand this.

🤪

[Anonymous]

Of course some people need help stowing their bags. It is insane to expect everyone who travels to be young, fit, and able to reach high places. I'm pretty short and even I have had difficulty stowing my bag in a way that it doesn't immediately crash to the floor. Help a shorty out, if you can.

[Anonymous]

Most airlines are happy to gate-check your bag. You don't have to pay those ever-increasing checked bag fees and since it goes directly onto your plane it's much less likely to get lost.