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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I dunno. I mean as a 5'1" person I can technically lift my fully packed hard case carry-on into the overhead but it is sometimes a struggle. Thankfully there is always a guy around who likes to feel useful. [/quote]
As a 5' petite woman, I have a hard time lifting those carryon spinner bags.   A couple of times, a nice gentleman helped me.  Once I asked the flight attendant, and they said no. lol

I can stand on the seat to get bag down, but if it's heavy, I have a harder time putting it up in the bin.

I am old enough where I recall flight attendance helped with bags.  But, this was also when they were called "stewardess".[/quote]

Look, I'm short and small, too, but you need to be able to be fully able to handle your baggage yourself--pack a smaller or lighter bag. [/quote]
You people must not fly much. There are newer configurations of planes where the overhead compartments are offset from the aisle far enough that someone 5' literally can't reach the latch. I travel multiple times a month, and I'm not wasting extra hours waiting for baggage (which inevitably takes longer these days) because the airlines designed their overhead space to be unreachable. [/quote]

So you expect a flight attendant to put your bag in the overhead for you?[/quote]
Did I say that?[/quote]

The implication is that someone should do this for people who have packed a bag they cannot physically manage themselves. Who exactly is that person? [/quote]
It's not my job to solve airlines' labor issues. If they are going to configure their planes so that a full grown adult can't access parts of it, then it's their problem not mine. Given that their alternative, checking a bag, wastes my time and often results in lost luggage, it's not a real alternative.

I travel multiple times a month, and someone always helps if the overhead is too high. It's a total of 20s of accepting help from someone else, if that, for a flight. You all are being nasty to passengers when it's the airlines who you should be upset at.[/quote]

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