Originally Posted by
MarianA
I also find that cabin crew sometimes struggle with the amount of stuff brought into the cabin. On several occasions I have heard calls to allow luggage put into the hold during boarding, by then for free. "Just leave your bags at the end of the jetway and they will be loaded in the hold". I realize that this is not "the airline" speaking, but my distinct feeling is that those people working at the coalface surely would prefer a lot less hand luggage.
The question is: why do airlines encourage PAX to bring as much crap as possible into the cabin. "To generate revenue" can't be the answer, as quite a bit of the hand luggage then goes into the hold, for free, at the gate. I'm guessing it's so they can advertise cheaper "hand luggage only" flights, but does that really have such an impact on sales/revenue that you have to do it? Not very long ago the luggage allowance was 2 hold bags free of charge, and I seem to remember there was much less crap in the cabin, hand luggage was sort of hand bag / small rucksack sized.