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In reply to the discussion: airlines are getting tough with people who bring roller bags on plane [View all]Liberal_in_LA
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airlines are getting tough with people who bring roller bags on plane [View all]
Liberal_in_LA
Aug 2014
OP
Oh no! Don't tell me we have to rub elbows with the great unwashed masses...
NutmegYankee
Aug 2014
#22
Well, I guess that if I didn't shop there, I wouldn't know what the other customers look like.
blueamy66
Aug 2014
#76
I spent a lot of my life when casual was the rule in R&D. However, in my early years, I worked for a
RKP5637
Aug 2014
#102
Non-revenue fliers had to dress up as a condition of using those free tickets.
Gormy Cuss
Aug 2014
#52
Even when I fly to Australia, most of the people look like they found the clothes..
BlueJazz
Aug 2014
#118
I remember when the seats in 'steerage' were bigger and more comfortable than the ones in today's
MADem
Aug 2014
#28
45 for my Dad and even when they relaxed the dress code, we still dressed up.
blueamy66
Aug 2014
#10
Was cool to be able to go on the web and see just how many seats were sold.....
blueamy66
Aug 2014
#69
I think those buddy passes were also a reaction to single employees without kids getting screwed, in
MADem
Aug 2014
#33
Air travel today is rather like interstate bus travel when I was young, only much more
tblue37
Aug 2014
#60
Speed Up Boarding- when you are shoving that many people into a space that held significantly
KittyWampus
Aug 2014
#101
Because people are bringing on huge, stuffed bags and hogging up the overhead bins.
blueamy66
Aug 2014
#11
I think they are also getting tougher on loading people in sequence group 1 and group 2 etc.
hedgehog
Aug 2014
#18
The solution is REGULATE 1 checked bag allowed on short flights and 2 on flights of 4hr. or more
JCMach1
Aug 2014
#20
I flew DCA to DFW and the gate agents were actively having people out there bags in the sizer.
tammywammy
Aug 2014
#41
Length of flight does not determine length of stay, so that would be ridiculous.
ScreamingMeemie
Aug 2014
#54
On all the international flights I took, I eventually got tired of fighting with the peeps stuffing
JCMach1
Aug 2014
#80
I live in the Pacific Northwest. Coats alone take up most of the overheads in the winter.
Shrike47
Aug 2014
#57
That seems to be the argument of pretty much every business traveler I'm talking about.
Warren DeMontague
Aug 2014
#134
What people forget when talking about the glamour of flight in the old days is that
hedgehog
Aug 2014
#133