Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/07/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I take your point but feel that this then rests at the feet of the airlines and Boeing and AirBus for not building airplanes the way people actually USE them. I am now firmly in the Air Bus preference camp - at least as configured on the airlines I have flown they have wider aisles, fractionally wider seats, and overhead compartments that will take a roll-on case sitting perpendicular to the aisle so they take less space. Being 6-3, 280, I need all the space I can get. The airlines COULD have asked for more/better overhead space in the design of their airplanes - but they are more intent on squeezing every last passenger inch regardless of comfort. It's no wonder travellers get grumpy. (I won't even go into the issue of what passes for restrooms on Boeing aircraft beyond my desire to lock the designers into one for, say, a flight across the country, or the Pacific, depending on airframe.) It's a curious effect: airline luggage handling got worse and worse so passengers reacted by bringing more and more into the cabin with them so they wouldn't have to wait around for 45 minutes or so for their bags to (possibly) come off the carousel. So we got to live with big folding bags AND a briefcase AND something else. Which was ugly. Now it's much more convenient (at least for me) to check as much luggage as I can so I don't have to worry about taking it through security although I can no longer lock my bags so I can't put anything in them I don't want pilfered. I've taken to using a Timbuk2 messenger bag and a small Domke camera bag which works really well for me although sometimes I have to use a wheeled bag if I take the R8 and a long lens and tripod. AND it seems that the airlines are getting bags out of the aircraft and to the carousel faster than they used to. Or maybe I'm more resigned to it all. Adam On Sat, 24 Jul 2004 23:39:54 +0200, animal <s.jessurun95@chello.nl> wrote: > Has nothing to do with terrorists. > It,s just part of an industry effort to enhance safety. > Nect time you travel look in the overhead bins ,you,ll find a little > placard > there with the weight limitations. > These bins were not designed for the loads you typically encounter.That > means that in extreme turbulence or a otherwise survivable crash they,ll > fail and cause injury. > simon jessurun > amsterdam > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Adam Bridge" <abridge@gmail.com> > To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org> > Sent: Saturday, July 24, 2004 11:36 PM > Subject: Re: [Leica] About ready to give it up... > > > It's when we're at the hands of capricious or arbitrary enforcement of > > inconsistent rules that we are most often the must frustrated -- > > there's just no personal control for anyone when it happens and it > > definitely makes one NOT endure the situation that causes it. > > > > I remember flying to Australia on Qantas we were limited to a single > > bag. Fortunately I knew it well in advance and could plan. But I know > > I'd be very angry to have arrived at the airport to find that there > > was a weight limit as well as the single bag limit. > > > > More thanks to the terrorists! > > > > Adam > > > > On Fri, 23 Jul 2004 18:16:47 -1000, Karen Nakamura <mail@gpsy.com> wrote: > > > >I think you were unlucky, Karen. For the past year I have flown > > > >weekly between Amsterdam and Spain (plus other trips to assorted > > > >other places), and I have not once had a problem carrying my > > > >Samsonite pilot case with computer, papers etc., and a small Domke > > > >bag with my cameras. And of course, by the time I get to the plane, > > > >I usually have a 3rd bag containing various liquid purchases from > > > >the tax-free shops :-) > > > > > > Perhaps. I find it very frustrating because you don't know until you > > > get to the airport what the policy is. It also seems to vary > > > depending on the: check-in agent, carry-on baggage screener, and > > > gate agent. I've been given varying information by these people on > > > the same flight! > > > > > > Some clearer information and training would be good. > > > > > > > > > > > > Karen > > > > > > -- > > > Karen Nakamura > > > http://www.photoethnography.com/ClassicCameras/ > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Leica Users Group. > > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >