Gate lice’ beware: American Airlines is catching early boarders

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Anonymous wrote:I push and run over gate lice. You are group 4 and 5. GTFO of the way standing around the gate. You aren't going to get on faster and are blocking the way for everyone in groups 1-4. MOVE or you will be run over.

Seems like a bad move to physically accost someone likely larger than you and likely already agitated, but you do you

Nope. 6'4" and 276 lbs. If you want to throw down, i'll easily oblige.

This is terrible! You will just run over children and smaller people because you’re pissed at them? I think if you actually physically assaulted someone you would be denied boarding. This is just armchair fantasizing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:this post WAS about the folks trying to board early - not about how to load luggage.

Let me guess - you are the same person who was confused about what a knapsack is?

[Anonymous]

I think the main issue is that so so many humans are just really not smart.

Last night we were at DD's high school for, of all things, the NHS induction ceremony. When calling students up to get their certificates asked very clearly for the audience to HOLD ALL APPLAUSE until the end. After the first name was called, about half the audience clapped. The speaker said again, PLEASE HOLD ALL APPLAUSE until the end.

Nope, the same idiot half of the audience kept clapping after every kid. They seemed totally unaware of the fact that half of the audience was not clapping at all. The speaker was totally baffled and frustrated.

This is world we live in folks. These people are allowed to raise children, drive cars and other heavy machinery, vote, and yes, board planes.

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Anonymous wrote:If they actually boarded by rows/sections, then flight attendants could actually monitor where people are putting their carryons.

We’ve all seen people put their roller bag and backpack and jacket in the overhead bin. Nobody stops them.

Fwiw, I’ve seen gate agents tell people trying to board early that their group hasn’t been called yet and they are asked to wait.

Everyone lines up early, so they could easily put up signage by rows/sections or simply call by rows. Since you have to pay to be closer to the front, those rows should be called first.

Actually, I get ticked off when I pay to check a bag and then am told that I have to put my backpack at my feet to make room for a freeloading carry-on. That's the whole point of enduring the inconvenience of waiting for my bag.

Exactly. It punishes people who carry on less. I actually shifted to a rolling small suitcase specifically because I was asked to put my knapsack at my feet, taking up my foot space. Instead of being rewarded for carrying on less, people with knapsacks end up with less foot space.

What is a “knapsack”?

Look it up! You might call it a backpack.

But why would you say “knapsack” if you are talking about a backpack?

Because it’s an equally acceptable term for it?

Maybe. If you're 80

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If they actually boarded by rows/sections, then flight attendants could actually monitor where people are putting their carryons.

We’ve all seen people put their roller bag and backpack and jacket in the overhead bin. Nobody stops them.

Fwiw, I’ve seen gate agents tell people trying to board early that their group hasn’t been called yet and they are asked to wait.

Everyone lines up early, so they could easily put up signage by rows/sections or simply call by rows. Since you have to pay to be closer to the front, those rows should be called first.

Actually, I get ticked off when I pay to check a bag and then am told that I have to put my backpack at my feet to make room for a freeloading carry-on. That's the whole point of enduring the inconvenience of waiting for my bag.

Exactly. It punishes people who carry on less. I actually shifted to a rolling small suitcase specifically because I was asked to put my knapsack at my feet, taking up my foot space. Instead of being rewarded for carrying on less, people with knapsacks end up with less foot space.

What is a “knapsack”?

Look it up! You might call it a backpack.

But why would you say “knapsack” if you are talking about a backpack?

Because it’s an equally acceptable term for it?

Maybe. If you're 80

I'm 37 and I know what a knapsack is. You have a poor vocabulary.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If they actually boarded by rows/sections, then flight attendants could actually monitor where people are putting their carryons.

We’ve all seen people put their roller bag and backpack and jacket in the overhead bin. Nobody stops them.

Fwiw, I’ve seen gate agents tell people trying to board early that their group hasn’t been called yet and they are asked to wait.

Everyone lines up early, so they could easily put up signage by rows/sections or simply call by rows. Since you have to pay to be closer to the front, those rows should be called first.

Actually, I get ticked off when I pay to check a bag and then am told that I have to put my backpack at my feet to make room for a freeloading carry-on. That's the whole point of enduring the inconvenience of waiting for my bag.

Exactly. It punishes people who carry on less. I actually shifted to a rolling small suitcase specifically because I was asked to put my knapsack at my feet, taking up my foot space. Instead of being rewarded for carrying on less, people with knapsacks end up with less foot space.

What is a “knapsack”?

Look it up! You might call it a backpack.

But why would you say “knapsack” if you are talking about a backpack?

Because it’s an equally acceptable term for it?

Maybe. If you're 80

You said that already.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I push and run over gate lice. You are group 4 and 5. GTFO of the way standing around the gate. You aren't going to get on faster and are blocking the way for everyone in groups 1-4. MOVE or you will be run over.

Seems like a bad move to physically accost someone likely larger than you and likely already agitated, but you do you

Nope. 6'4" and 276 lbs. If you want to throw down, i'll easily oblige.

This is terrible! You will just run over children and smaller people because you’re pissed at them? I think if you actually physically assaulted someone you would be denied boarding. This is just armchair fantasizing.

If they're in my way? Absolutely. Keep your spawn out of the way.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I am on a flight now and the instructions printed inside the overhead bins are crystal clear - if you have a rolling suitcase, turn it on its side and put it in wheels first. Yet people are laying them flat, horizontally, thereby taking up the space that could be used for three bags. Amazing. I wish the flight attendant would be able to ask people to set their bags in correctly but that would take even more time during boarding.

I wish the flight attendants would actually, you know, attend. Plenty of people just need a little help. My elderly mother asked for assistance and it was her fellow passengers who helped out as the “flight attendant” could not be bothered. I once asked for help when I was 6 months pregnant and the “flight attendant” actually rolled her eyes at me. Fellow travelers are usually the ones to assist one another and make things pleasant. So now that I’m not pregnant I do my best to keep an eye out for people who might need a hand storing bags the correct way. We’ve all been there as parents traveling with young kids, we’ve all been there as people traveling to a funeral in a daze of grief, we’ve all been there when we have shoulder or knee injuries, or infirm parents to assist, etc.

Let’s help each other out with patience as fellow travelers. Because goodness knows the “attendants” are usually attending to rolling their eyes at passengers, giving knowing looks to one another and having little inside jokes over the intercom, and fawning over the passengers who look rich, hot, or both.

The flight attendants will get trapped in the aisle if they stopped to help someone. The people are coming downstream and the FA won’t be able to get back upstream to help someone else. Think it through. The passengers are the most likely helpers. I’ve helped people just so they get out of the way and sit down so everyone else can board.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If they actually boarded by rows/sections, then flight attendants could actually monitor where people are putting their carryons.

We’ve all seen people put their roller bag and backpack and jacket in the overhead bin. Nobody stops them.

Fwiw, I’ve seen gate agents tell people trying to board early that their group hasn’t been called yet and they are asked to wait.

Everyone lines up early, so they could easily put up signage by rows/sections or simply call by rows. Since you have to pay to be closer to the front, those rows should be called first.

Actually, I get ticked off when I pay to check a bag and then am told that I have to put my backpack at my feet to make room for a freeloading carry-on. That's the whole point of enduring the inconvenience of waiting for my bag.

Exactly. It punishes people who carry on less. I actually shifted to a rolling small suitcase specifically because I was asked to put my knapsack at my feet, taking up my foot space. Instead of being rewarded for carrying on less, people with knapsacks end up with less foot space.

What is a “knapsack”?

Look it up! You might call it a backpack.

But why would you say “knapsack” if you are talking about a backpack?

Because it’s an equally acceptable term for it?

Maybe. If you're 80

You said that already.

If only there were more than one poster in this forum. Lacking working brain cells today?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am on a flight now and the instructions printed inside the overhead bins are crystal clear - if you have a rolling suitcase, turn it on its side and put it in wheels first. Yet people are laying them flat, horizontally, thereby taking up the space that could be used for three bags. Amazing. I wish the flight attendant would be able to ask people to set their bags in correctly but that would take even more time during boarding.

Remember that the flight attendants aren't even being paid during boarding.

All the more reason they should hustle to get the flight boarded and get in the air.

DP.

Snort.

Will that make them any MORE $$$?

No.

Why on earth would an FA do that?

They take an unbelievable amount of crap from rude and clueless passengers. I'm routinely astonished at how polite and helpful most of them are given customer behavior.

I have flown extensively, domestically and internationally, and I 100% have seen and partaken in a lot more passengers-helping-passengers, passengers-being-great, than I have seen and experienced flight attendants helping. When an obviously pregnant woman gets an eye-roll, when an elderly woman is flat-out refused help, there is simply no excuse. None.

You realize that not only are they not being paid during boarding, but they aren't covered by insurance -- not workman's comp if they pull a shoulder, not liability insurance if a bag they are lifting breaks a handle and falls on someone? None of it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am on a flight now and the instructions printed inside the overhead bins are crystal clear - if you have a rolling suitcase, turn it on its side and put it in wheels first. Yet people are laying them flat, horizontally, thereby taking up the space that could be used for three bags. Amazing. I wish the flight attendant would be able to ask people to set their bags in correctly but that would take even more time during boarding.

I wish the flight attendants would actually, you know, attend. Plenty of people just need a little help. My elderly mother asked for assistance and it was her fellow passengers who helped out as the “flight attendant” could not be bothered. I once asked for help when I was 6 months pregnant and the “flight attendant” actually rolled her eyes at me. Fellow travelers are usually the ones to assist one another and make things pleasant. So now that I’m not pregnant I do my best to keep an eye out for people who might need a hand storing bags the correct way. We’ve all been there as parents traveling with young kids, we’ve all been there as people traveling to a funeral in a daze of grief, we’ve all been there when we have shoulder or knee injuries, or infirm parents to assist, etc.

Let’s help each other out with patience as fellow travelers. Because goodness knows the “attendants” are usually attending to rolling their eyes at passengers, giving knowing looks to one another and having little inside jokes over the intercom, and fawning over the passengers who look rich, hot, or both.

Flight attendants are not supposed to be lifting bags into the overhead for you. If you can't lift if you need to check it. Yes, even grandma.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am on a flight now and the instructions printed inside the overhead bins are crystal clear - if you have a rolling suitcase, turn it on its side and put it in wheels first. Yet people are laying them flat, horizontally, thereby taking up the space that could be used for three bags. Amazing. I wish the flight attendant would be able to ask people to set their bags in correctly but that would take even more time during boarding.

Remember that the flight attendants aren't even being paid during boarding.

All the more reason they should hustle to get the flight boarded and get in the air.

DP.

Snort.

Will that make them any MORE $$$?

No.

Why on earth would an FA do that?

They take an unbelievable amount of crap from rude and clueless passengers. I'm routinely astonished at how polite and helpful most of them are given customer behavior.

I have flown extensively, domestically and internationally, and I 100% have seen and partaken in a lot more passengers-helping-passengers, passengers-being-great, than I have seen and experienced flight attendants helping. When an obviously pregnant woman gets an eye-roll, when an elderly woman is flat-out refused help, there is simply no excuse. None.

You realize that not only are they not being paid during boarding, but they aren't covered by insurance -- not workman's comp if they pull a shoulder, not liability insurance if a bag they are lifting breaks a handle and falls on someone? None of it.

They're instructed not to. https://www.insidehook.com/travel/flight-attendants-dont-lift-bags

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I push and run over gate lice. You are group 4 and 5. GTFO of the way standing around the gate. You aren't going to get on faster and are blocking the way for everyone in groups 1-4. MOVE or you will be run over.

Seems like a bad move to physically accost someone likely larger than you and likely already agitated, but you do you

Nope. 6'4" and 276 lbs. If you want to throw down, i'll easily oblige.

This is terrible! You will just run over children and smaller people because you’re pissed at them? I think if you actually physically assaulted someone you would be denied boarding. This is just armchair fantasizing.

Maybe you should control your child and teach them manners to not hoard around the gate? Wait like a civilized person. Gee, what a novel concept!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am on a flight now and the instructions printed inside the overhead bins are crystal clear - if you have a rolling suitcase, turn it on its side and put it in wheels first. Yet people are laying them flat, horizontally, thereby taking up the space that could be used for three bags. Amazing. I wish the flight attendant would be able to ask people to set their bags in correctly but that would take even more time during boarding.

I wish the flight attendants would actually, you know, attend. Plenty of people just need a little help. My elderly mother asked for assistance and it was her fellow passengers who helped out as the “flight attendant” could not be bothered. I once asked for help when I was 6 months pregnant and the “flight attendant” actually rolled her eyes at me. Fellow travelers are usually the ones to assist one another and make things pleasant. So now that I’m not pregnant I do my best to keep an eye out for people who might need a hand storing bags the correct way. We’ve all been there as parents traveling with young kids, we’ve all been there as people traveling to a funeral in a daze of grief, we’ve all been there when we have shoulder or knee injuries, or infirm parents to assist, etc.

Let’s help each other out with patience as fellow travelers. Because goodness knows the “attendants” are usually attending to rolling their eyes at passengers, giving knowing looks to one another and having little inside jokes over the intercom, and fawning over the passengers who look rich, hot, or both.

The flight attendants will get trapped in the aisle if they stopped to help someone. The people are coming downstream and the FA won’t be able to get back upstream to help someone else. Think it through. The passengers are the most likely helpers. I’ve helped people just so they get out of the way and sit down so everyone else can board.

I didnt see this "Debate" about FAs helping load bags, but they absolutely should not. They do not get paid until the doors close, if they are injured it is on them.

If you can't lift your bag, you should pack lighter or check it. It is no one elses responsibility to injure themselves because you cannot do basic tasks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am on a flight now and the instructions printed inside the overhead bins are crystal clear - if you have a rolling suitcase, turn it on its side and put it in wheels first. Yet people are laying them flat, horizontally, thereby taking up the space that could be used for three bags. Amazing. I wish the flight attendant would be able to ask people to set their bags in correctly but that would take even more time during boarding.

Remember that the flight attendants aren't even being paid during boarding.

All the more reason they should hustle to get the flight boarded and get in the air.

DP.

Snort.

Will that make them any MORE $$$?

No.

Why on earth would an FA do that?

They take an unbelievable amount of crap from rude and clueless passengers. I'm routinely astonished at how polite and helpful most of them are given customer behavior.

I have flown extensively, domestically and internationally, and I 100% have seen and partaken in a lot more passengers-helping-passengers, passengers-being-great, than I have seen and experienced flight attendants helping. When an obviously pregnant woman gets an eye-roll, when an elderly woman is flat-out refused help, there is simply no excuse. None.

You realize that not only are they not being paid during boarding, but they aren't covered by insurance -- not workman's comp if they pull a shoulder, not liability insurance if a bag they are lifting breaks a handle and falls on someone? None of it.

They're instructed not to. https://www.insidehook.com/travel/flight-attendants-dont-lift-bags

Thank you! That pp is probably the same on the other thread talking about how they shouldn't have to clean up after their children throw popcorn all over the aisle and other peoples seat. Expecting the "service staff" aka FAs who get paid very little, to do everything for them. Entitled AHs.