Carry On Baggage on Airplanes
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Boeing has researched and defined the maximum volume that a carry-on bag might reasonably occupy, given current consumer preferences and trends in luggage manufacturing. Teague, the firm that has designed all of Boeing’s aircraft interiors since 1946 (when overhead bins were nothing more than hat racks), incorporates that figure into its holistic vision of an aircraft’s interior: windows, lavatories, galleys, and, yes, overhead bins. Innovations in the latter tend to go in one direction only: “It’s like an arms race between Airbus and Boeing over who has the biggest bins,” David Young, a Teague principal industrial designer who has worked on cabin features for 20 years, told me.
“Maybe we don’t need carry-ons at all,” Young went on. He was whispering, almost, as if his secret made him sound bananas, which it somewhat did. “Someone needs to step out and say, ‘We’re not doing this anymore. This isn’t the right experience for air travel.’” What if the overhead were instead restored to its original purpose, as a modest rack for hats, coats, shoulder bags, and briefcases? Already planning for this possible, if still unthinkable, future, Teague has started designing all of its interiors to include an option without any overhead bins at all. Imagine how light you’d feel up at cruising altitude with no bags encumbering you, and a stretch of empty space above your head.
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By 2011, boarding times had already doubled compared with the 1970s, and they’ve crept up even further in the past five years.
I actually travel quite light with carry on. Just a "school-type" backpack. (and mostly, I am able to be in the first boarding group. And I have never lost a checked suitcase. And now, with things like AirTags, etc., easy to monitor the location of your checked bag.)
I think that airlines should reduce/eliminate check baggage fees and charge for carry on.
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I generally check everything I can, except for the laptop due to the batteries. It drives me nuts watching folks flailing around with these massive carry-on bags, and taking for ever to leave the bloody plane once it lands.
I think that airlines should reduce/eliminate check baggage fees and charge for carry on.
Oh that would be great
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In August 2006 there was a thwarted terrror attack where some of Mohammed’s peace lovers were caught trying to blow up a plane.
I flew either out later that day or the next. Heathrow security sort of freaked out and required everyone to check everything, including their purses and laptops, allowing only wallets and paper tickets and prescription medicine. You couldn’t even bring a magazine onboard
It was a surreal experience. We must have loaded and unloaded that plane in 3 minutes.
I agree with TG that the airlines should push the cost incentive the other way.
