Overhead Baggage anyone

[Dairyground]

The issue of overhead compartment space is not one that will be materially affected by the removal of supplies and equipment from these areas: This isn't a solution, it's just sniping.

I apologise if my remarks about hatracks were interpreted as sniping at cabin staff, airlines or licencing authorities. Rather, I was intending to hint that in the days whe a gentleman wore a hat, we all managed without cumbersome carry-on luggage.

However, one thing that has surprised me recently is observing, when boarding one aircraft type, a fire extinguisher and a portable emergency oxygen container adjacent to each other and very similar in size in the doorway. It is unlikely that anyone would pick up the fire extinguisher instead of the oxygen, but I'm not so sure that the reverse could not happen in the presence of smoke. Do the authorities really approve this adjacency?