Originally Posted by
22/04
On that Britannia I suspect your bag had to go under the seat in front of you ( so pretty small) and nothing went overhead. Overhead was for hats etc. only as I remember it. They were called hat racks then.
Oh yes - of course lol
The most you took was a British Eagle or a BEA shoulder bag ( remember them? ) and your duty frees if you had bought at the airport
Hat racks only for hats and coats - and on the way home you could usually put your donkey and sombrero up there and duty free fags (they were light)
On the Tenerife flights everyone had bunches of Bird of Paradise to bring home so they went in the hat racks OK
We still had hat racks only when I was at BMA with our Viscounts and DC-9's and 707's this was until the 707 jets got a new wide look cabin and the DC9's got overhead lockers fitted - about 1982? BUT this was nothing to do with fares or what you could take on board it was to keep the stuff secure behind a closed locker or bin door
I recall Britannia's early model 737's had hat racks until the late 80's