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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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.[/quote]

Remember that the flight attendants aren't even being paid during boarding. [/quote]

All the more reason they should hustle to get the flight boarded and get in the air.[/quote]

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.[/quote]

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, [b]there is simply no excuse. None.[/b] [/quote]

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.[/quote]

Fellow passengers also aren’t covered. And yet, they help. Because they are good people who want not only what’s best for their fellow passengers, but they want to get the flight off the ground. [/quote]

Sure, they can offer, but they are free not to offer, too. Do you think you can order a specific passenger to handle your bags for you, and then get pissy when they don't? Shame on you.

Not their job. Also not the FA's job -- they are not working on the clock until after boarding completed. [/quote]

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