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Every air canada flight I have been on in the past few years always has the overhead bins full. I absolutely refuse to check in carry on because they have lost
by __turbobrew__ 2y ago
Every air canada flight I have been on in the past few years always has the overhead bins full.
I absolutely refuse to check in carry on because they have lost my bags or I have had to wait 2 hours for the bags to get on the carrousel.
I was thinking if we can somehow redesign air planes to have less under cargo space and more carry on space? I have never heard of the cargo store being full.
- tonyarkles 2y agoThe new airframes (e.g. Max 8) have much larger overhead bins where the roller bags can sit vertically but it's going to take a long time for AC to retire the old fleet. Last week I was on an AC A321 that was old enough to have no WiFi, no IFE, and no plugs. It was a late flight so I just slept but it was kind of jarring to remember that it wasn't too long ago that none of those features were standard (I looked it up, I believe the airframe was made in 1997)
- Mountain_Skies 2y agoDelta wing passenger aircraft should have more cabin space and less under-cabin cargo space but there are many other issues with that design.
- shiroiushi 2y ago>I absolutely refuse to check in carry on because they have lost my bags or I have had to wait 2 hours for the bags to get on the carrousel. I've never had this problem. But I've also never flown with Air Canada; is this a problem you've had with Air Canada specifically, or air travel in general? I have read in recent years a lot of negative stuff about Air Canada from unhappy passengers. It sounds like it's even worse now than the worst American carriers.
- dismalaf 2y agoIt's Air Canada specifically. As a Canadian, I avoid them at all costs. Actually, I just avoid flying within Canada as much as possible (and especially avoid any transit through Toronto Pearson). I fly to and from Europe regularly (4x or so per year) and to the US now and then to visit family, and there's no hell like dealing with Air Canada or Canadian airports.
- bagels 2y agoThey all do it, just in different amounts.
- School-Cotton 2y agoHow’s it even possible to absolutely refuse to gate check a carry on? Whenever I’ve been told to do so it didn’t really seem like I had a choice.
- lmz 2y agoThey will usually start offering to gate check some time before mandating it.
- __turbobrew__ 2y agoBe the at the front of the line for your zone. You will only be forced to check if there is no room and if you are first in your zone there will be room. Alternatively there are certain things which cannot go into checked baggage such as batteries so you can pack batteries or other things which cannot go into cargo into your carryon baggage.
- AlotOfReading 2y agoNewer planes do this, but broadly speaking airlines have no desire to give you overhead space. There's an established expectation that they can charge for checked bags, but anything they don't use can be sold as freight space for cargo. Air Canada does this and the money they make from it (~5% of revenue) accounts for a significant portion of their net margin. Plus, the favorite pastime of Canadian airlines seems to be discovering how shoddy they can make their service before there are public riots.
- bagels 2y agoAirlines need to make checking bags less awful and the problem of full bins goes away. Why I don't ever check bags unless I'm travelling for more than two weeks: TSA steals items from bags TSA opens your bag and damages items Airport staff steals items from bags Whole bag gets lost Whole bag gets stolen by airport staff Waiting hours for bag to come out on the carousel Bag gets sent to the wrong place Bag doesn't make it on to the plane They charge you for the privilege of all of the above
- amanaplanacanal 2y agoBack when I flew more my rule was "never check bags". Now I've mostly just stopped flying because the experience is so awful.