Airport gate agents & carry ons

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Flight attendants and gate attendants definitely treat white women worse than white men. My friends and I have exchanged numerous stories like the ones above.

I am specifying race because I don’t know how it plays out with different races

I think we do “know” how it plays out with different races.

Seriously. If you think it’s bad for white women, you can imagine how bad it is for women of color.

-frequent flyer who is POC

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Happened to me going from Gatwick to Belfast. Bought my carryon after reading the measurements online. Paid ahead for it to be carryon ( easy jet does this) then gate agent says it’s too big. Forced me to pay extra to Check it at plane door. I paid cos I didn’t want to get refused the flight.
Literally walked onto the plane and placed it in the overhead.
I took a photo of it and disputed the charge on my credit card. Got all my money back.

👏👏👏👏👏👏

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I still remember a man being dragged out of his seat when the flight was overbooked. Not a small woman. I’m a small woman and I’m finding all these claims of inferior treatment not ringing true.

You think we’re lying about our individual stories of being asked about our carry on bags ? Remember this site is mostly female posters so you’re getting our POV. Feel free to “do your own research” till you find what “rings” true for you.

I’m a short woman who has not been hassled. So my experience cancels yours out. This isn’t exactly scientific research.

Yet you conclude the rest of us are lying. No one claimed scientific certainly. You’re just hearing from those of us who chose to respond.

I’m beginning to see why you might be singled out for poor treatment.

[Anonymous]

All of this nonsense about charging for bags etc. can be traced to a 2010 IRS private letter ruling that determined fees aren't subject to passenger ticket taxes.

https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-wd/1002004.pdf

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:All of this nonsense about charging for bags etc. can be traced to a 2010 IRS private letter ruling that determined fees aren't subject to passenger ticket taxes.

https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-wd/1002004.pdf

Airlines can charge whatever they want. But they need to limit the number of carryons on board to the amount that will fit, without unfairly singling out and random passengers. Either they only sell a certain amount of tickets that allow rollaboards, or they limit it to the first X number of tickets sold or something. People should not have to guess if they actually can bring a carryon - they should know. And the desire to close/pushack the flight on time should not create stress for passengers who followed the rules.

[Anonymous]

We were flying internationally and the carry on restrictions on the carrier were ridiculously tiny. We had carry ons that fit in big American planes but zero chance would fit in the metal sizer at the gate.

My husband closely observed how the gate agents were eyeballing roller bags and told our family to push the handles down into the bags…to make it appear smaller. We also formed a straight line and positioned our roller bags on our right side, away from the gate agent standing to our left.

Miraculously, we were able to carry on our admittedly oversized bags…which still easily fit into the overhead compartments.

The people getting hassled were carrying multiple bags and had bags attached or perched atop the roller bag.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Flight attendants and gate attendants definitely treat white women worse than white men. My friends and I have exchanged numerous stories like the ones above.

I am specifying race because I don’t know how it plays out with different races

I’m the FA PP from upthread, and I couldn’t disagree more. I can’t speak for gate agents, but I have so many female and gay coworkers who go out of their way to deliberately screw with business men, in particular, because they are so self-important, and who are quite protective of solo women travelers.

Sorry, FA pp, but while you and your friends may be all about “girl power” it’s simply not the experience for most of us female frequent fliers, who are regularly expected to be more accommodating and blatantly given inferior treatment to men flying in the same class of service.

Just look at the incident that went viral when the pregnant wife of a pro baseball player was told by the flight attendants she needed to get on the ground to clean up all the popcorn her child spilled on a flight. Whether you want to characterize her as entitled or not, do you really think if it was a man traveling alone with a child they would have treated him the same way?

Omg, I cant believe someone is using this as an example of discrimination against women. If anything, it is entitlement of awful parents expecting other women to clean up after them (ie the FAs!). Your child makes a f***ing awful mess, and you expect other people to clean up after you? Do you expect the park ranger to clean up after your dog sh**s in the park too?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Flight attendants and gate attendants definitely treat white women worse than white men. My friends and I have exchanged numerous stories like the ones above.

I am specifying race because I don’t know how it plays out with different races

I’m the FA PP from upthread, and I couldn’t disagree more. I can’t speak for gate agents, but I have so many female and gay coworkers who go out of their way to deliberately screw with business men, in particular, because they are so self-important, and who are quite protective of solo women travelers.

Sorry, FA pp, but while you and your friends may be all about “girl power” it’s simply not the experience for most of us female frequent fliers, who are regularly expected to be more accommodating and blatantly given inferior treatment to men flying in the same class of service.

Just look at the incident that went viral when the pregnant wife of a pro baseball player was told by the flight attendants she needed to get on the ground to clean up all the popcorn her child spilled on a flight. Whether you want to characterize her as entitled or not, do you really think if it was a man traveling alone with a child they would have treated him the same way?

Omg, I cant believe someone is using this as an example of discrimination against women. If anything, it is entitlement of awful parents expecting other women to clean up after them (ie the FAs!). Your child makes a f***ing awful mess, and you expect other people to clean up after you? Do you expect the park ranger to clean up after your dog sh**s in the park too?

While I agree people should clean up their/their kids' mess (and I do), have you seen how people leave their seat areas? People are disgusting and leave so much trash on planes, you can see it when you disembark. I totally believe moms of kids are targeted more on planes: they typically won't fight back and are fun to have a power trip with. Nobody is telling gross first class men to pick up anything.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Flight attendants and gate attendants definitely treat white women worse than white men. My friends and I have exchanged numerous stories like the ones above.

I am specifying race because I don’t know how it plays out with different races

I’m the FA PP from upthread, and I couldn’t disagree more. I can’t speak for gate agents, but I have so many female and gay coworkers who go out of their way to deliberately screw with business men, in particular, because they are so self-important, and who are quite protective of solo women travelers.

Sorry, FA pp, but while you and your friends may be all about “girl power” it’s simply not the experience for most of us female frequent fliers, who are regularly expected to be more accommodating and blatantly given inferior treatment to men flying in the same class of service.

Just look at the incident that went viral when the pregnant wife of a pro baseball player was told by the flight attendants she needed to get on the ground to clean up all the popcorn her child spilled on a flight. Whether you want to characterize her as entitled or not, do you really think if it was a man traveling alone with a child they would have treated him the same way?

Omg, I cant believe someone is using this as an example of discrimination against women. If anything, it is entitlement of awful parents expecting other women to clean up after them (ie the FAs!). Your child makes a f***ing awful mess, and you expect other people to clean up after you? Do you expect the park ranger to clean up after your dog sh**s in the park too?

While I agree people should clean up their/their kids' mess (and I do), have you seen how people leave their seat areas? People are disgusting and leave so much trash on planes, you can see it when you disembark. I totally believe moms of kids are targeted more on planes: they typically won't fight back and are fun to have a power trip with. Nobody is telling gross first class men to pick up anything.

Do you often see popcorn all down the aisle in first class? That this was in the aisle where people need to walk makes the difference here. The aisle needs to be kept clear not full of your toddlers snacks which how did they get there anyway?

[Anonymous]

Are you also carrying a purse with personal items? While a man may have all his stuff ids passports in his carryon. Means you may be more willing to part with your carryon.

[Anonymous]

I'm so sick of all the carryon luggage travelers with their giant roller bags. They delay boarding, they delay deboarding and they think they have the right to move my backpack out of the bin that was there first because, why? Their bag full of crap is more important than my bag full of crap?

I would fully fully support NO roller bags on board, period. I know this will never happen so instead I support a very large fee for carryon bags and a much smaller (comparatively) fee for checked bags.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Flight attendants and gate attendants definitely treat white women worse than white men. My friends and I have exchanged numerous stories like the ones above.

I am specifying race because I don’t know how it plays out with different races

I’m the FA PP from upthread, and I couldn’t disagree more. I can’t speak for gate agents, but I have so many female and gay coworkers who go out of their way to deliberately screw with business men, in particular, because they are so self-important, and who are quite protective of solo women travelers.

Sorry, FA pp, but while you and your friends may be all about “girl power” it’s simply not the experience for most of us female frequent fliers, who are regularly expected to be more accommodating and blatantly given inferior treatment to men flying in the same class of service.

Just look at the incident that went viral when the pregnant wife of a pro baseball player was told by the flight attendants she needed to get on the ground to clean up all the popcorn her child spilled on a flight. Whether you want to characterize her as entitled or not, do you really think if it was a man traveling alone with a child they would have treated him the same way?

I mean, you’re only seeing a small sample that the media wants you to see. I fly sometimes 3-4 legs, 3-5 days a week. I can tell you FAs loathe the d*cky business man, or any man who is being a problem, child or not. People are so unbelievably entitled.

[Anonymous]

It's feel your pain OP. We fly a lot. I think women do get treated a lot worse then men when flying. I have a theory. Many of the flight attendants were raised in blue collar or lower class homes where men ruled. They are used to cowtowing to men. Many never went to college...so are not that bright.

We have a rule when flying .." No eye contact" with agents and we act like we don't speak English.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's feel your pain OP. We fly a lot. I think women do get treated a lot worse then men when flying. I have a theory. Many of the flight attendants were raised in blue collar or lower class homes where men ruled. They are used to cowtowing to men. Many never went to college...so are not that bright.

We have a rule when flying .." No eye contact" with agents and we act like we don't speak English.

I shouldn’t even touch this because I know that’s what you want. But, speaking of “not that bright”, you are so grossly uninformed. Maybe do some basic googling before you post and make YOURSELF sound not that bright.

[Anonymous]

5 pages, and this is obviously what it is.

"I am convinced there is some sort of thing happening where because I am small it makes the bag look proportionally bigger."