Carry On Luggage

One of the joys of travel is the rush onto the airplane to find spots for carry on luggage. Many airlines will nail you when you try to bring bags that are too large or more carry on bags than your allowance. EasyJet is one of the many airlines that will make you pay a large amount to check your bag if it's too big. Some even weigh your carryon baggage and make you pay for overweight carryons.

The overhead bins are meant to have some luggage efficiently placed in rows. (doesn't the pic above show a lovely, organized overhead bin?) Once random shopping bags, jackets, and other such nonsense start crowding up the overhead bins, it makes the hunt for space much more difficult. People on my Royal Air Maroc flight had all sorts of random shopping bags and I almost didn't have space for my backpack (filled with important items such as cheese, duty free liquor, and books).

Among other things, I saw the following carried on to my flight to Casa:

A boom box: the people who brought on this delightful carryon had a small rolling suitcase checked in and this as the carryon. I didn't hear them playing any music, but it took up plenty of room in the overhead bin!

Hungry, Hungry Hippos: the lady who brought this on took it out of her shopping bag and laid it by itself in a section of the overhead bin with her almost empty shopping bag NEXT to it! On a full flight, should Hungry, Hungry Hippos really be allowed to take up as much space as a suitcase???

Sorry for the rant - I was just surprised to see such things on the plane taking up space :)