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[quote=Anonymous][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]

A very tiny roller would fit under the seat. Think of a roller the size used for computer bags now. [b]Normal carryon rollers, including EU size rollers, never fit.[/b][/quote]

Were you flying back in the 1980s, and if you were, did you ever try to fit it?[/quote]

My father was an airline pilot.  My first plane ride was in 1968.  (I know...)  I remember a lot of things about the "old days" of aviation....one movie that played at the front, sometimes you could see the screen, sometimes not.  Smoking sections.  Friendly stewards/stewardesses. VERY LONG flights (planes are faster now but routes can be longer).  Rollerboards weren't even really a thing until the mid/late 90s for the most part, they were invented in the late 80s and didn't become ubiquitous until years later.  (remember garment bags?  That was the standard carry on before that)

TL;DR No, they didn't.[/quote]

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