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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't remember underseat space ever holding a normal roll on. Soft sided bags and back packs are about all they can handle. No doubt the space has gotten tighter given the entertainment equipment they've added. [/quote]

OP here. I just think I remember -- maybe 30 years ago? I'm in my 50s now -- that I was a little puzzled by why the flight attendants would direct you to put the larger bag up overhead and the smaller at your feet. My small-ish roller fir just fine under the seat in front of me, and that way I didn't have to lift something heavy.

I do believe I was flying a lot in Canada at the time, so that may be it. [/quote]

I flew Delta a lot at that time in the US. You definitely used to be able to fit rollers under the seats. [/quote]

For decades I worked for an airline that designed its own seating layouts and seats (rare these days) and spent a lot of time looking at everyone else’s seats and planes on my various factory visits. You were probably flying in the 80s and 90s to get this arrangement, and I’m sure it feels more recent because I can think of a few planes that would have accommodated this through 2010ish. But you would have been on nearly-retired, 40 year old planes at that point and flying pretty specific routes.

On the bright side, I can also tell you what kinds of things we found under that carpet and how often those seats were cleaned if that would make you happier about the tradeoffs between then and now.[/quote]

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