Carry on bags
The whole issue of the amount of baggage SLF are permitted to bring into the cabin is becoming ludicrous.
Before Christmas 2011 I had the misfortune to be flying on a Swiss RJ100 from Nürnberg to Zürich on a Saturday morning. It was a full load, and the shear quantity of baggage that was being brought on to the aircraft, which not only filled the (totally inadequate) bins on the RJ, but also wound up be stowed between the seats, was such that in the event of an emergency I cannot honestly see how half the passengers could have escaped within the prescribed time. The crew did their best to try and separate passengers from their beloved bags, so they could be stowed mosre sensibly, but i'm afraid to little avail!
Is it going to take a fatal accident requiring evacuation before the authorities act to limit properly the amount of nonsense being allowed in the cabins of aircraft?