On two recent flights, I’ve overheard passengers complaining to flight attendants that someone else took “their” overhead bin space (both were long haul premium cabin flights, for what it’s worth). I find that to be puzzling, so I’d like to discuss that in a bit more detail in this post, and talk about overhead bin etiquette.
So, who has “control” of overhead bins — are the bins associated with the seats underneath them, or is it a free-for-all? Well, the answer is definitely the latter, with a few caveats. Here’s what I consider the correct etiquette to be for using overhead bins:
The reason I say all of this is because on a couple of recent long haul business class flights, passengers became visibly angry when the overhead bin space above their seat was occupied, to the point that they asked the crew to intervene, and demanded that the bags of others be moved.
A great solo travel tip spotted this week on One Mile at a Time.
