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Once you have boarded the plane passengers should locate their
seat and get their baggage stored away as quickly as possible
to minimise the delays to other people waiting to get down the
aisle to their own seats. Standing in and blocking the aisle while
you sort through a bag to locate your newspaper or MP3 player
will not make you particularly popular.
Make sure that any items you will need during the flight are
easily accessible in your bag. Place in-flight necessities near
the top or in an 'easy to get to' internal pocket where possible.
Get the things that you will want during the flight (such as
a newspaper) out of your bag before take-off and store them in
the seat pocket in-front of you. Ideally you shouldn't need to
go into your bag at all during the flight, although this is almost
an impossibility if you are travelling with children.
Try to store your bag as close to your own seat as possible.
This will avoid disrupting other passengers during the lfight
and avoid difficultulties getting to your bag once the plane has
landed and everyone else is doing the same.
If your bag is large, rigid and difficult to store always be
respectful of other people's baggage. You should not crush someone
else's cabin bags just so you can squeeze your own into the overhead
luggage locker. Find another less crowded locker instead.
If you have a seat by the window or in the middle of a row, where
getting out is disruptive to your fellow passengers, avoiding
repeated visits to your bags becomes even more important.
Even if your bag is stored under the seat in front of you, in
the confined space of an aircraft cabin pulling it out, opening
it and rummaging around for items can be disruptive to your fellow
passengers. Having your bag underneath the seat in front of you
also decreases your legroom and makes the journey less comfortable,
especially if you are travelling on an airline with only 28"
between seat backs and happen to be taller than the average schoolchild!
And finally....do remember to take your bag and all its contents
with you when you leave the aircraft cabin once you have reached
your destination.
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