You should have taken names then complained in writing to the airline directly.

I don't think there is a rule against the flight crew moving a suitcase in the bin, but the off-duty pilot's comment is way out of line.

Oh yeah, DEMANDING the pilot's name would have worked out well. In these days, airlines love it when you get agreesive and demanding, particulalry towards employees. It often results in free travel....travel off the plane in cuffs........

I didn't say "demand".

Flight attendance have name tags. With her name and the flight number, day, time, etc. you could have written a letter.

Just saying, there's really nothing you're going to get by complaining here on a travel forum. If you are hoping for compensation, apology, whatever... you need to be talking to the airline in question.

<<When I get to my seat and some jackass has filled my overhead area and then gone to his seat in the rear, I remove it, hand it to the Stew and aske her to gate check it.
She thinks it's mine and takes it."

That is one of the most obnoxious things I've read in here in a while.

You are not assigned an overhead bin.

I agree that it's annoying when people don't put their things closer to their assigned seat, but that in no way gives anyone the right to move someone else's belongings OFF the plane.

I can't believe anyone would even admit to doing that.

It dfoes not go off the plane . .any more than mine would have if it had been gate checked.

Seems to be a lot of folks who do not fly much and when they do, put their carryons up front when they are assigned seats in the rear.

Hell . . I don't just admit to doing it . . I am quite proud of doing it!!

The next time the jackass will think twice about doing it too!

Yea. It's also always a good idea to key a nice car that has been parked in two spaces. That'll teach the jackass, right? Two wrongs always make a right.

Ridiculous comparison . .

One of the reasons there are so many Jackasses around is that no one ever teaches them the consequences of their behavior. We shrug our shoulders and say . . “my o my, . . gracious me . . . . that Jackass should not have done that” . . so the Jackass keeps doing the things that make him/her a Jackass. One or two “teaching incidents” and the Jackass quits acting like one.

Can anyone give a legitimate reason for someone putting the luggage in the bin up front and continue to their seats in the rear, ??? Is it fair that the person assigned the seat under that bin should have to gate check their bag???

Rich - can't you just put your bag somewhere else like the rest of us do?

Again, I agree it's wrong to put your bag in the front and then go sit in the back (and I would never want my bag that far away from me), but what you're doing is wrong, too.

What if the person whose bag you moved was in the bathroom? Or was helping family members assigned to a different area on the plane?

You are assuming people will change their ways by doing what you do, and I don't think that's an accurate assumption, either.

You obviously aren't going to change what you're doing and some of us obviously think what you're doing is wrong.

The only thing ridiculous is Rich calling other people (who offend his sense of right and wrong) jackasses, when if he'd just look in the mirror....

"One of the reasons there are so many Jackasses around is that no one ever teaches them the consequences of their behavior."

True. Makes me wonder if you'll stop gate-checking others' bags after someone has a little air rage incident on you. Seriously, with all the crazy people we read about do you think it's really a smart idea to do this?

I repeat . . Can anyone give a legitimate reason for someone putting the luggage in the bin up front and continue to their seats in the rear, ??? Is it fair that the person assigned the seat under that bin should have to gate check their bag???

I thinks Karens just gave some very good examples of why it might appear that the bag you are looking at is not connected to the people sitting there at the moment:

-person is in the restroom,
-owner is helping someone get seated in another area,
-owner is in the galley getting water to take anti anxiety medication (that's me!)
- owner has on noise canceling headphones, has nose in a good book, and is ignoring the world, hoping to fall asleep fast (me again)
- owner is handicapped or a minor traveling alone; the FA put the bag in first available bin.


Just put your bag in the next bin, or get in line and enter the plane sooner!

Is it fair? No. Is it fair for you to gate check someone else's bag for them? No.

I'd love to hear the conversation between you and the guy sitting next to you whose bag you gate checked while he was in the bathroom. Would be pretty interesting if he needed his laptop to get some big work project done but you (in your infinite wisdom) decided it should be gate checked to make room for your stuff.

By the way, I think you're making this all up anyway.
"I remove it, hand it to the Stew and aske her to gate check it.
She thinks it's mine and takes it."
Then less than an hour later you say: "They seem to now exactly what is going on . . and have yet to fail to grin and take it."

Which is it: the FA thinks it's yours or the FA knows that it isn't?

"Which is it: the FA thinks it's yours or the FA knows that it isn't? "

Who knows . . she takes it . .

What is amazing is that Rich is proud of this. Not even embarrassed.

Anyway, he already answered his own question... perhaps they are "folks who do not fly much".

You know the type, get all confused about what seat is A, B, C, etc. count the rows as they walk down them, are confused and flustered about boarding in general.

"Ridiculous comparison . .

One of the reasons there are so many Jackasses around is that no one ever teaches them the consequences of their behavior. We shrug our shoulders and say . . “my o my, . . gracious me . . . . that Jackass should not have done that” . . so the Jackass keeps doing the things that make him/her a Jackass. One or two “teaching incidents” and the Jackass quits acting like one.

Can anyone give a legitimate reason for someone putting the luggage in the bin up front and continue to their seats in the rear, ??? Is it fair that the person assigned the seat under that bin should have to gate check their bag???"
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Replace "putting the luggage in the bin up front" with "parking his car in two spaces". Go ahead. Explain why this is a ridiculous comparison. They are very much alike. Both involve people doing something without regard to others, and both involve someone taking it upon himself to retaliate. I don't think it's a ridiculous comparison at all.

Rich has been given good reasons why his behavior falls into the category of totally self-centered rudeness.

Whether he chooses to continue acting that way will be his call. Now, though, knows what his behavior looks like to normal people.

"Explain why this is a ridiculous comparison. "

If I cause some Jackasses bag to be gate checked, no harm is done . . . he gets it when he leaves the plane.

If I scratch the paint on some Jackesses car, significant harm is done . he has to have it repainted, thereby contributing to the air pollution with the paint solvets.

Now . . would I park my old pickup so close that he cant get out . . you bet I would!!!

wow and you call other people "jackass"... amazing