This one (inspired by Terry) is more an Air Law for Airlines and Flight Crews:
AIR LAW 4: All airlines will provide additional storage space in the front of the cabin for those passengers that are forced to sit in bulkhead seats.
As Terry points out, most adept travelers with significant carry-on luggage (which will likely be covered in Air Law 5) avoid the bulkhead seats because there are no seats in front of them under which to cram said luggage. These veterans also race past bewildered rookies when flights are called, snarfing up all the overhead luggage space.
In other cases, veterans that fly airlines that board from the back of the plane know that the chance of getting their luggage stored over their row decreases with each row called. I see these passengers dumping their bags over Row 8 when they're seated in 16, knowing that they can grab it on the way off. Of course, such a manouever shows a startling lack of concern for the passengers in Row 8...but that's why the Air Laws have become necessary.
If airlines fail to provide storage cutouts at the bottom of each bulkhead, it is only fair that the flight attendants store these passengers' bags in the area usually reserved for first class passengers' coats...or, someplace else up there.
Couldn't agree more! Maybe they might even stow it where they put their own baggage during the flight that upfront cabinet that usually is a mess and if cleaned out could easily hold the bulkhead passenger bags.....
Posted by: JEB | February 15, 2007 at 11:46