Airlines want to make all their baggage loaders redundant so they discourage their passengers from bringing checked baggage on by: 1) promising generous cabin bag allowances and 2) charging for hold baggage. This finds a great degree of success with the punters who are generally scared of checked baggage getting lost and are never shy of saving $1.
Result: Already dense cabins are overloaded with full overheads and bags under every seat. Ground staff are obliged to take baggage away from passengers as it will not all fit into the cabin... to be loaded into the hold by the loaders who now remain. The boarding process takes twice as long and becomes more labour intensive. 100% of evacuations recently have seen passengers struggling towards slides with their wheelie bags. If we have another Airtours 737 fire in all likelihood nobody will get out.
Who thought this was a good idea? Why did the Authority approve it?
@Dominator2..... Do you know nothing about commercial aircraft? Passenger oxygen masks mix chemically generated oxygen with ambient air to provide enough oxygen to sustain consciousness during an emergency descent. In this case the ambient air contains smoke - So you will still be breathing smoke. That's why they are never used deployed such situations.
P.S. Locking overhead lockers remotely only solves half the problem. What about all the baggage under the seats?
Last edited by Magplug; 6th Aug 2019 at 11:29.
Reason: typo!