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I don't even know what to say about this (europe.pub)
submitted 5 days ago by to c/mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
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Yes, I'd like to pay nearly $200 for shipping of a $30 thing. Or free shipping that will arrive on the same day.

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[–] 198 points 5 days ago (54 children)

exactly what it feels like when airlines list "board first" as a perk for paying twice as much

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  • [–] 121 points 5 days ago (46 children)

    Right?

    I like boarding last. Less time I spend in that fucking tube the better.

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  • [–] 61 points 5 days ago (34 children)

    I like being part of the last 10-15%, but not the last couple of people. The number of times I've been forced to check my backpack because "there's no more room in the overhead compartments" only to step in the plane and find plenty of room in the overhead compartments is too damn high.

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  • [–] 37 points 5 days ago (14 children)

    That is my number one gripe, how the hell do those overhead compartments run out of space when everyone is limited to one carry on bag, aren’t the planes designed to hold the carrry on of every passenger, it’s usually some dickheads putting their personal item bags up there or the cabin crew not bothering to tell people to shift their bags sideways or actually checking if they are completely full or not

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  • [–] 40 points 5 days ago (10 children)

    Yep, or I have seen staff heckling an old guy because the tip of his case wheels stuck outside of the sizing device, while some moron with a hockey bag sized duffel walks on and nobody days anything.

    One flight was packed and so the host was asking everyone to turn their bag sideways in the overhead as we boarded, and while saying this over and over people still were laying them flat. I said "This must get old, it is like dealing with children." He said, "no it is worse, children listen, these adults don't."

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  • [–] 10 points 5 days ago (6 children)

    I've been on flights where people have placed their bags in flat and sidewise then just closed the bin. Attendants then get upset when you open bins to check for space (even in cases where you saw there was space before someone closed it) because of course they are the only ones that close bins and they always check for space.

    I've also been on flights where people have stood up to use the bathroom or adjust their bags while taxiing and then everyone has to wait on them wine the attendants just repeat on loop that they need to sit the fuck down.

    The rules of planes just seem not to matter at all to some people and the rest of us have to suffer for it.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 days ago

    I do not understand the people that close the bins. There must be a hell for them against the people that stick their carry on in the first slot they see on a half-loaded plane and then waltz to the back.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 days ago (2 children)

    I was on a flight earlier this year where the attendant had to explain repeatedly to the same group of passengers that they may not put their winter coats into the overhead bin and will have to keep it with them. This same flight they had to restart the safety demonstration because someone got up and went to the bathroom during the first playthrough of it

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  • [–] 2 points 4 days ago

    My number one gripe is why they charge for the stuff people don’t want (under plane) but offer what people do want for free (in the bins).

    I know it’s a pain in some flights to wait for the cargo unloading but the other side of getting on a plane and doing transfers with nothing but a small handbag is so nice.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 days ago (5 children)

    How big is your backpack where they’d make you check it?

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  • [–] 10 points 5 days ago (4 children)

    Smaller than a roller bag. There just comes a time when boarding that airline staff just seem to say "fuck it, everything else goes on the hold."

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  • [–] 15 points 5 days ago (5 children)

    If I'm traveling without a carry on, yes, I wait until the whole line is clear before I board.

    If I have a carry-on, I line up to board as soon as my zone is called. Too many times I boarded and found some assholes sitting all the way in the back have put their carry ons above my seats so they don't have to drag it, and I have to walk past my seat and be an asshole myself by putting my carry on above a seat that's not mine, wait until there's a break in boarding so I can make my way back to my seat, and wait for everyone to deboard before I can go back and grab my carry on.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 days ago (2 children)

    I thought most airlines won't allow a carry-on that won't fit under your seat?

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  • [–] 15 points 5 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (6 children)

    Priority seating in such a weird way to do it as well.

    So you load first class, and then the obvious next move is to go back to front.

    I'm sure the first class passengers absolutely love the experience of everybody walking past them. Who wouldn't want that?

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  • [–] 6 points 4 days ago (2 children)

    I always enjoy silently crop-dusting the first class passengers as I walk by

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  • [–] 3 points 4 days ago

    I have always thought this order of things as the weirdest/worst order possible and was thinking about this very thing last week in my flights. I do know other countries so it in a sane order, but the US would like to stubbornly so it in the least ideal way. Some airline should start marketing the option to board last since some people are not happy unless they pay extra to set themselves apart from us lowly plebs.

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