It's boosted by being German. Every German has a one time use berserker state they can access in times of great rage. They become momentarily invincible, if their health is knocked down to zero, they will revive with one health and advantage on all saving throws for the next two turns. They will also roll their damage die twice and add the second roll to the total damage per attack while in this berserker state.
If you look at the dial that watch is not pretending to be a rolex, it just has the red and blue GMT bezel coloring and a jubilee-style bracelet which a lot of tributes and non-knockoff watches emulate
I do get slightly irritated when people claim all homage watches or even watches that vaguely follow the same trends are replicas or fakes.
Seiko I doubt has ever tried to make a fake Rolex or even one that at a distance would be mistaken for one.
Citizen and their tsuyosa is the big one for me. Someone tried to tell me it’s mimicking an oyster perpetual, and i genuinely think they look like two different watches
I draw the line at invicta, relax or Olev (I could be wrong with that last one but it’s amazons fake Rolex brand)
Citizen and their tsuyosa is the big one for me. Someone tried to tell me it’s mimicking an oyster perpetual, and i genuinely think they look like two different watches
I don't know anything about watches, so I had to look them up, and those are two of the most watch-looking watches of all time.
They do look alike, in the same way a Honda Civic and a Toyota Camry look alike.
When you start making something that performs a basic function, and you give it a design with minimal embellishment, there are only so many forms it can take, and anything that takes that form is going to have a similar look.
Do people really think their preferred brand should have a monopoly on generic shapes?
I could be wrong but it looks like a speedtimer ssc947 with a swapped out jubilee bracelet. It was seiko’s homage to the original seiko “pogue” watch from the 70’s.
Edit. After taking another glance I stand corrected.
I think the pogue is a good lead, but look again at the dial -- it's not a chronograph and it seems to be more of a sunburst pattern that's darker at all edges. Plus, with all the speedtimers and related watches the red only occupies about 1/4 of the bezel, where this watch clearly has the 50/50 coloring like a lot of GMTs
fr. I run a college club that sends students to a professional conference annually. Saving cost is an absolute must at every turn for us. that being said, when we were considering how to get to the convention this year, we all agreed immediately that we would not subject our students to Spirit Airlines.
I would had said, " I was necessary, a deck cost like 20 bucks, ( I don't know real price" anyway the expensive parts are the wheels so no, I'm saving money breaking. It
Malicious compliance, 10 out of 10. He did it so smoothly and calmly. No big scene, no unnecessary drama. Just did what he had to do in a garbage situation.
Yeah, he filmed it to put it online, but honestly it's good content lol
Lol, I came this close to getting myself preemptively kicked off a flight due to anger over this exact situation.
Edit: For all you pretentious assholes patting yourselves on the back painting me as the MC or some entitled brat who thinks I'm more special than everyone else, here's a concise summary. It's an old carry-on that used to fit but apparently airlines have shrunk the bins over the years. I have been using it for years without anyone questioning it, so I didn't even realize it didn't fit anymore. On the return leg of a trip, the same airline that didn't even bat an eye at it on my outbound flight suddenly made it a huge issue, so I was annoyed. Some of you Reddit folks really love to play the holier than thou, hail corporate game without knowing any of the details.
Instructions unclear, i have now made a dark pact with the god of blood and am now consuming the biomass of the airport staff from every airport on the planet and nothing of value will be lost.
At the end dude is curb stomping his own baggage so it fully fits in the little box. This is insane because that is the size of the pretty standard carry on luggage and they all have fkn wheels and i dont think many would fit in that stupid box lol.
I'd be so mad I would curb stomp and break my own luggage too cause apparently you would have to buy a toy size carry on for next time anyway lol.
I had one fit but they told me it had to have 2 inches of clearance on all sides. Now they're just making stuff up. I wanted to go on my trip so I stopped arguing.
They've already come to their conclusion and will make up whatever they want to justify it. I once had a carryon and a suit bag and they said I had to gatecheck because both counted as my overhead and I couldn't put the suit bag under my seat. So I opened by half empty carryon and put the suitbag inside and she said it still counted as two overheads because she already entered that I was gatechecking the luggage. Asshats.
Ha, sounds like something that would happen to me. Effing hate flying now and it's all due to the airport crap, nothing to do with actually being in the air. Also, really hate the way the TSA bark at people as if we're all frequent flyers. I've flown maybe twice a decade on average, sorry if I don't have the whole routine down pat, sheesh.
See the slot on the other size of the thing he's shoving his bag into? That's for carry-ons (even had a picture on it with a bag with wheels). The side he's trying to shove it into is for your personal item (i.e. your backpack). I'd wager that the problem is that his backpack is the size of a carry-on so he's trying to say the other is a personal item.
This should be at the top somewhere – you're absolutely right, he's trying to get by with 2 full-size carry-ons instead of carry-on + personal item, which is just plain stupid🤦♀️
The issue is they keep making the size smaller resulting in people having to constantly buy new luggage. My gf has many luggage sets she's had to replace over the years because the set that was the correct size for last year's holiday flight is no longer the correct size for the current year's flight.
I travel a lot, I can only recall that the size has changed once in the last few years, the width went from 15 inches to 14. I can't remember any prior changes before that.
New conspiracy theory unlocked: airlines pairing with luggage companies to shrink baggage measuring boxes a little at a time. Luggage makers sell more, smaller bags, and airlines make bank on checking fees for suitcases that fit the boxes last year.
He is a pro skater, so he gets a new deck for free. Now the trucks and wheels are real valuable, so you never wanna lose those. Besides, a new deck would run you about 40 bucks so it would never justify the 89 dollar oversize fee
I live in a pretty expensive country and at my local shop you can get decks from many decent brands like Flip, Almost, Enjoi, Thank You and Darkstar for around 40 bucks. Even some Plan B and Deathwish for like 50 if you get them on sale, which they often are
Yeah, tensions were really high so I get why he did it. It doesn’t seem logical or even smart in the cold light of day, but we’ve all been there. I remember coming back from Spain. My suitcase weighed something like 1 kg more than what I came with. The lady was trying to charge me like €190 that I really really just didn’t have lol. So I went to the bathroom and I put on like three pairs of my pants and two jackets weigh the bag again and then just went through security. But she saw me do it when I came out of the bathroom, so they flagged my bag on the way onto the plane and when they asked me about it, I just told them I happened and they said “that’s absolutely ridiculous, it’s not even a full flight just get on the damn plane.
I mean it actually was a logical thing to do if there was no other way to get it on the flight. The trucks and wheels were likely more expensive than the deck. By breaking the deck in half he can take the trucks and wheels off with tools when he gets home and transfer them to a new deck
Agreed. I had that exact situation. Put on 2 jumpers and transferred some weight into a plastic bag to carry on, and they just laughed and accepted it, this was in Germany
I was once 25kg over my limit because my flight to Japan (for a long term stay) allowed for two checked bags, but my flight home after a stop in Bali only allowed for one. A problem I did not consider until I was checking in.
$70/kg is what they wanted to charge me, $1,750.
With like 20 minutes until my boarding time I began frantically shuffling items around from my checked bags to my carryon. With some pleading as well I think I was able to get the cost down to around $500. Still insane, but I was out of time.
I tried to pay and my visa was declined. Again and again.
After like the 5th try the guy just took pity on me and tagged my bag and sent me through.
When I got home I called visa to find out why my card was declined, turns out I hadn't paid my bill while I was away and they'd put a stop on the card. So my own incompetence both created and saved me from the same problem 😂😂😂
$1,750 sounds like the "you come from a rich country so you deserve it" tax.
I once had to go home for a medical emergency, spoke directly to the local head of a small country's airline a couple times. He kept giving me the runaround, but seemed to want a bribe. Eventually he flat out said, if I really needed the flight, I would come up with $10,000 USD cash, and he just happened to be the guy to give it to.
we've considered getting a duffle bag to minimize the weight of the "luggage". Most of the typical ones are around 4-5Kg (10-12lbs), and so that takes up 20% of your limit right there
I did this once but instead of going to the bathroom I moved a couple feet aside the line, pulled out 2-3 sweaters and pairs of pants, put them all on, and then got back in line. I made eye contact as much as I could. It felt great walking past the gate agent.
I think something similar happened to me maybe once. It was with checked-in luggage, and it was maybe 3 kg over the limit. So I ended up exchanging some more heavy items from checked-in luggage to my cabin luggage. I honestly don't know what's the point of all of this exercise. They are wasting everyone's time including their own.
Maybe it's a small thing, but really makes whole travel experience more miserable. It's really not that easy to figure in advance how heavy is your luggage when you are travelling, and it creates some additional travel anxiety.
I would say it might affect local business in the destination countries, as tourists will avoid purchasing too much to make sure their luggage will still meet requirements.
Although I noticed that check-in employees don't pay attention to any duty free purchases in the airport. So one of the tricks is to have some "duty free" bags ready for extra stuff and this way it's possible to take more carry-on luggage.
The point is that the baggage handlers are usually unionized and have a contract that states their job duties include lifting items up to XYZ lbs. So if your luggage weighs more than XYZ lbs then it needs to be handled separately from all the luggage that is under the weight limit. That screws with the work flow, which the airline doesn't want, so they charge a shit ton for it to strongly discourage people from going over the limit and messing with the loading / unloading of the checked luggage.
Never got too deep into it when I skated, but snapping your old board is something a good number of skaters do when they're setting up a new one.... Presuming they didn't need a new board because the old one snapped.
Been there. Beijing Airport was making me get rid of some Korean skincare I'd just come with. Said I could keep one small disposable bottle. So my petty ass transfered over that overpriced snail juice right there on the desk. Making as much mess as possible.
So if anyone there sees an especially refreshed and glowing countertop with soft baby skin, you're welcome.
Also where my spouse saw a woman chug a whole bottle of brandy because she paid for it, dammit
He is in Germany so I'm not sure the prices there, but here you can buy a cheap suitcase for 40 dollars at Ross or Burlington. It's probably 80-100 dollars one way if you suitcase doesn't fit.
I had this situation in Munich once, but with weight. Just transferred some items into a plastic bag and put some more layers on and they were happy to accept
Before the pandemic, it used to be normal for low-cost flight tickets to include carry-on luggage of up to 55cm, so pretty much all standard trolleys would fit. If they had too many trolleys on board, they'd just store some in the cargo hold before the departure.
Then they changed the policy (you can only have a small bag of up to 40cm and have to keep it in the under-seat storage) and introduced this bullshit fine without proper communication. It was my one and only moment of air rage cause 1) it's just corporate greed and 2) they let people board with oversized luggage as long as it's a textile bag.
I don't think I have ever seen a wheeled suitcase pass that test, luckily most of the times they are not actually checking with it, just putting it as a reference.
I'll never understand why people are caught by surprise by these things.
I saw a woman at the security checkpoint wearing thigh high lace up boots throwing a fit because she had to take them off. Why she thought that was great air travel footwear was a mystery
I'll never understand why people are caught by surprise by these things.
I traveled through Europe for 3mo, all airports were fine with my bag until I was in Spain. Suddenly it was a problem, and I nearly split open my backpack trying to rearrange so it was just perfect for them... Super frustrating when it had fit just fine on all the other planes!
When I bought my carry on, they had two that were essentially the same model, but one was an inch smaller, and it was called the Global version for exactly this reason. It was rated for nearly every airline. That's the one I got, cuz I travel international.
Heathrow only allows one tiny plastic bag of toiletries, much less the TSA and most of Europe. The security agent told me they were getting better machines eventually..
It’s basically the one bag rule everywhere, but many places just don’t enforce it
Also, per the TSA website, your carry on liquids are supposed to fit in a 1 quart bag, which actually is slightly smaller than the standard 1 litre limit they have elsewhere and that UK airports enforce
Same with liquids or removing laptops, but rest assured either way they’ll treat you like the asshole for not knowing the exact combination of rules they’re using that day.
That's the real kicker for me. The airport here now lets you keep a bottle of water when you go through the security check - sometimes. So what do you do, any time you take a flight you walk up to them with your water and ask if you can bring it through and sometimes the answer is Yes and sometimes it's No... but always the answer is framed as "OF COURSE NOT!" or "OF COURSE YOU CAN!" like you're an absolute imbecile for not knowing.
I noticed this when I was looking for a roller bag a couple of years ago. Most of the bags labeled for carry on were slightly larger than what the airline said was allowed. It took a while to find one that actually met the requirements and didn't have terrible reviews.
Yep, it's insane how almost no one is building them to spec. I shopped for a new roller bag earlier this year and at least 95% of bags did not fit the requirements, unless you ignored the wheels. Some stores, none of their stock fit.
I’ve had multiple flights force us to fully immerse bags into these things. Not a single inch of the bag could be outside it. One flight literally no person that had wheeled carry on was able to get on without an oversized baggage fee.
I laughed when they fid that with my rolling duffel. The look on their face... they deflated when they saw mine was actually much smaller than they thought. 🤣🤣🤣
I had one that fit just fine for a few years. One morning I pack up, head to the airport, and discovered they made the check bin smaller so my suitcase no longer fits.
I've thought about getting another, smaller suitcase, but with my luck they'll just make that bin smaller again and it'll be a never ending size war with the airlines.
You aren't kidding. I have an Air Canada branded carry-on which is supposed to be approved. It fit on my way out to a location but didn't fit in the luggage checker on the way back. It wasn't overpacked or anything of that nature, the cage was just much slimmer. They aren't even consistent between airports for the checker.
I was forced, and when it didn't fit I looked at them and said 'are you kidding me?' and was then told not to worry about it, but the fact that it didn't fit and it was their own branded luggage pissed me off something fierce. I do want to add that it is not old luggage either. It is less than 12 months old.
For real. My family has used Taca/Avianca airlines to visit family for 20 years. Our carryons were fine until the last few years where the dimensions keep shrinking. They pretty consistently hit everyone in line with fees now. It's not like you can exactly argue with the check-in people out of fear of missing your flight. Sometimes even the gate people pull you aside and charge you bag fees (Happened to my parents last week).
My brother in fact broke the wheels off the carryon we had for years for my dad due to said fees. It's not ideal but what can you do when you barely afford to fly to see sick relatives and attend funerals.
I almost exclusively fly Ryan Air and EasyJet in Europe and never have had this issue. My carry-on is a travel backpack so it can squish. They should just ban hardshell luggage from the overheads because people will never figure this out on their own.
They made me pay once because an empty part of a backpack was 5 cm outside the lines - it would have fit in the box easily. I still haven't recovered emotionally.
Yea, you have no problem after you have, soft backpack passes 20 times until someone of the cruw wants to screw you. My partner just paid 70€ in ryanair for the backpack. And the new measuring boxes are not like this, they are just a picture so it does not stay squished.
lol everyone can figure this out, but it is just annoying.
I bought specific Ryan air luggage and 2 years later they changed their policies and now they only allow smaller bags. Also this luggage is too big for EasyJet.
They also never figure out how to put them in the overhead bin. The bags have the short end facing the hatch more often than not, that's what the size calculations are for.
But people still fire them in sideways, taking up more room, and then have to go rows back for overhead storage, and it takes an age to disembark because of it.
They would absolutely say each wheel is a "Personal Item", I saw them one time say a jacket in a woman's hand was their Personal Item instead of their purse unless they put on the jacket.
this happened to me once with a chestbag where i keep my documents/earbuds etc, i made them wait as i took out every fucking item and jammed it into a pocket, just to put it all back in and back up the airplane aftewards. there is doing your job, then there is "i can see this dude has 5000 pockets and the outcome is predictable, better cut my losses"
While the core of it is sound, safety regulations and such, it is highly abused nowdays. Airlines would rather charge you basically for taking you in naked and squeezing you like a human salami and then just shit out out of the plane at the destination.
There's so many layers. From attendants which sometimes get boosts based on targets for surcharging, to relying on shame/fomo to force you to pay while putting you in a very inconveniant situation (missing a flight worth hundreds while under a time pressure). It's all quite predatory.
I prefer hotels rather than appartments sometimes because it's cheaper to just ship my baggage via courier services separately to and from than pay the airline for shipping.
I mean, if the world weren’t full of assholes who keep bringing huge bags to carry on, we wouldn’t have this problem. Then again, if airlines didn’t fucking invent baggage fees, which is ridiculous (how you expected to travel without a bag, huh?), we wouldn’t have this problem. So why can’t we have nice things? Capitalism makes us all assholes. Thanks for coming to my Fed (Up) Talk.
I think it's more infuriating when you get to put something in the huge overhead bin, can easily fit like 4 luggage... but there is this one luggage that is too long so you cannot put it bottom first, you need to put it sideway and take more than half of the space.
Seriously I fucking hate this kind of traveler more than the policy. "Oh it fits!" and who gives a shit if it means 6 other people cant fit their actually appropriately sized bags. I bring my medical supplies in carry-on and I dont like to be separated from them but there is always some jack ass who does this.
As a frequent traveler, my sentiments are with you. Having said that, as a traveler, it's also capitalism and the competition it engenders that has forced airlines to reduce airfares dramatically, making flight available to hundreds of millions more people, and forcing them to get "creative" in dealing with this hypercompetition by imposing stupid unwanted fees like this. I hate these fees, but I think they come part and parcel with the behaviors engendered by capitalist competition.
EDIT: I came here to say the worker who wouldn't permit his bag is also a real jerk. Why not allow for the wheels in the spirit of the rule rather than the strict letter?
If it doesn't fit, doesn't it mean that the overhead compartment won't close? And then everyone on the plane would wait while they take his bag (and everyone else's that doesn't fit) off so it can be checked.
The people loading the checked luggage need to be paid. This is factored into ticket prices. If there is room in the cargo hold, the airlines can carry items for shipping, reducing passenger ticket prices. If you want checked baggage to be included in the ticket price, the ticket price will just be that much higher. The budget airlines give you the option of choosing that luxury or not.
Prices today are also much cheaper than they used to be. It used to be a luxury, but now is available to the masses. Most people purchase their plane tickets based primarily on whatever is cheapest.
The Compass Lexecon study showed that, between 1990 and 2016, the domestic price per mile to fly decreased by 40 percent (and by 36 percent when you factor in fees).
Because flying is cheap, many more people fly today in larger planes with more seats on board, and air travel has evolved from the privilege of a few into a service for many, growing to staggering numbers. In 2000, airlines carried 1.6 billion passengers, according to the International Air Transport Association (IATA). By 2005, that number had grown to 2.1 billion. By 2015, airlines had served 3.5 billion passengers.
Just pointing out that while airlines have very thin ROI, they all price fix with each other. They are not competing. They are a cartel. This is very well documented, so much so that we studied the American airline industry cartel in one of my econ classes back in college.
From what I've seen, if the bag is off like that, it won't optimally fit in the overhead. That means that bag will have to be turned sideways. When you have to put the bag in the overhead storage that way it can prevent one other bag from fitting in the overhead. Allow enough bags that are just slightly oversized like that and the plane will run out of overhead space fast. Yeah, you might be able to Tetris smaller bags in, but if most people are carrying the maximum sized bags, it'll force people to have their carry on bags checked.
Edit: I just learned that some airlines puts a less than maximum size limit on the free carry on. I've not flown on an airline, or used the basic economy fare level, that charges for slightly larger carry ons.
A flight I normally take cost $500-600 today. Guess what it cost in 1990? $400-500. How could the fare only go up about $100 in 35 years? Low cost flights won. Service and comfort lost. Fliers collectively voted with their dollars to get where we are. Sure, corporations are greedy, but the gave us what we wanted and we continue to buy it.
Regarding the question of traveling without a bag...People do. And some of them complained about the fare they pay to travel without a bag was subsidizing other peoples "free" checked bags. Why should they pay more when they weigh down the plane less? I suspect some VP read the complaints and saw opportunity to pitch a new revenue stream based on the customer friendly basis that it keeps some travelers fares low.
I just wish all airlines were strict with the carry on luggage. It annoys the hell out of me when you are trying to find room for my carry on from the overhead storage... And there is none because people have been allowed on with ridiculous carry on luggage because they didn't want to pay for extra luggage...
I usually book extra leg room, so there's no option to store under the seat in front of me either (exit seats or first row), so if there no overhead storage available... (Yes, the airplane staff will store it somewhere for me)... Some airlines actually have their personnel standing by the exit seats when boarding, preventing people without the exit seats to store stuff in those exact overhead storages, which is pretty nice.
The one annoys me the most is when people have multiple bags, knowing full well the intent is one goes up and one goes under the seat, yet people throw them all up. Then I'm expected to put my ONE bag under the seat cause somebody else didn't follow the rules. Screw those people.
The overhead bins were designed for significantly less passengers on the plane. There's plenty of room for everyone if these planes still had their original number of seats. The extra leg room you're paying for used to be free because every seat used to have more leg room. People didn't used to have to pay to check bags.
Yes, I do remember the good old days of flying in the 1980s, when there was a lot more room, empty seats etc. But then again the plane tickets cost 2-4x more than today (inflation adjusted)... So yeah, there's the free check in luggage and drinks accounted for...
No body is pointing out that he is squishing the bag into the smaller personal item side (underseat bag) of the bag sizer.
Meaning he likely knew his bag was oversized and was trying his luck to not get caught (often the cost of adding a carry on bag size is more expensive than the flight itself in Europe).
Does what this person is doing seem because it’s a rip off? Or because the guy is insane.
I think you are dramatically underestimating the attitude Germans have to hidden fees, and unfair feeling rules. It's a matter of principle, not finances.
There’s a limit for a reason. It’s infuriating to be the person doing the right thing only to not be able to fit your legal sized bag in the overhead locker because everyone else on the plane thinks they’re entitled to take whatever size they like.
Whilst true, there should be a standard sized carry on that all airlines should adhere to and same for carry on bag manufacturers.
With a standard these situations would go away. But if you have different sizes for easyJet, ryanair, BA etc etc then people will get caught out for tiny differences and I can understand their frustration.
It's not realistic for passengers to have different sizes bags for different airlines. Make it one standard size for all.
Last time I flew I brought one backpack. That’s it. I couldn’t even fit my one backpack in the overhead bin because nobody seems to realize that your personal item isn’t supposed to go in the overhead bin and you don’t just get 2 carry ons for free.
This is the correct response. I’m not sure how other people aren’t getting what’s happening here. You are allowed one carry-on and one personal item on a flight like this.
The carry-on size is bigger and his bag would be fine, but here he’s trying to wedge it into the ‘personal item’ side of the size template. It would fit fine on the other side.
He presumably had two larger sized items and was trying to ‘beat the system’, which is really just this guy stealing space from other passengers.
Most of the problem here is the passenger, not the airline.
I got dinged on this. They sell luggage as a “carry on” bag. Because the dimensions of the bag fit. But then they add wheels. The airlines figured out that they could upcharge you for this by claiming it’s too big and forcing you to check it. You have to get carry ons specifically designed to get around this, which is bullshit. The baggage companies make more money. The airlines make more money. We get fucked. A nickel and a dime at a time.
I noticed this when I was looking for a roller bag a couple of years ago. Most of the bags labeled for carry on were slightly larger than what the airline said was allowed. It took a while to find one that actually met the requirements and didn't have terrible reviews.
It’s wild how many people are missing the point of your comment along with the general understanding of the difference between a carry-on and a personal item
Uh no. I'm sick of assholes bringing all of their luggage that should otherwise be checked and filling up every square inch of the overhead compartments.
European airlines have shrunk the carry on size limit massively in the past few years. This is a German man. Plenty of bags that were 100% compliant a few years ago aren't anymore
I don’t think it’s infuriating. I think it’s more infuriating that airlines offer multiple options for people to take baggage with them on a plane, for all budgets and requirements. Can’t afford to check a bag? Take a smaller one. Can’t go on holiday without a big bag? Pay for a bigger bag.
Nothing makes me madder than seeing someone on a plane trying to game the system, meaning other people go without.
I once had a similar situation where my bag BARELY wouldn’t fit ALL the way down. The lady had a bad attitude with me from the start and I wasn’t about to pay $90 extra at the gate to have it checked under the plane. (The plane was boarding at this time)
So I removed one of the organizer pouches that had my underwear inside, clipped it to my belt like a fanny pack and now it fit just fine.
Then she tells me that she can’t let me on with two personal items because the 8 inch pouch connected to my belt was now considered a second personal item.
I silently walked over to the trash can, pulled out my stack of underwater, tossed them in the trash and stuffed the empty pouch back in the carry on.
These little suitcase size “testers” are also noticeably smaller than the actual space under the seats on the plane.
So I can very much relate to this man’s mindset in the moment 😅
I usually have a small plastic bag that folds in on itself to fit in my jacket's pocket and use that to hold my jacket in the airport.
I travel alone a lot and I'm 18 so I do attract some attention as the "possibly incompetent kid"
a lady once protested that my jacket being in a bag was against the rules, which, no issue in that; I just took it out of the bag, put the bag in the pocket and started holding the jacket instead. she then said I can't hold it for some reason. I then pointed at half of the people around me who were either holding or wearing jackets each, and said "fine everyone 60 euros and I'll happily pay it".
she had the "whatever" look on her face and let me go with my bag :)
Damn, either he’s really strong or that’s a really cheap suitcase
I think he's accessing a special type of anger that only unlocks when one is at the airport.
It’s enhanced if you’re a Dad whose family denied allowing them to be there hours before check in
Min + 50 to base strength plus 10% chance of berserk damage multiplier every turn.
Basically bloodlusted under those factual circumstances
It's boosted by being German. Every German has a one time use berserker state they can access in times of great rage. They become momentarily invincible, if their health is knocked down to zero, they will revive with one health and advantage on all saving throws for the next two turns. They will also roll their damage die twice and add the second roll to the total damage per attack while in this berserker state.
Think I found my next dnd character, "Angry German Man, from the land of stupid ass airports"
I love traveling. Airports are the fucking worst. I don’t know what it is about me, but I become a different person in the airport.
I think it’s both…I see a Rolex knockoff as well
If you look at the dial that watch is not pretending to be a rolex, it just has the red and blue GMT bezel coloring and a jubilee-style bracelet which a lot of tributes and non-knockoff watches emulate
I do get slightly irritated when people claim all homage watches or even watches that vaguely follow the same trends are replicas or fakes.
Seiko I doubt has ever tried to make a fake Rolex or even one that at a distance would be mistaken for one.
Citizen and their tsuyosa is the big one for me. Someone tried to tell me it’s mimicking an oyster perpetual, and i genuinely think they look like two different watches
I draw the line at invicta, relax or Olev (I could be wrong with that last one but it’s amazons fake Rolex brand)
I don't know anything about watches, so I had to look them up, and those are two of the most watch-looking watches of all time.
They do look alike, in the same way a Honda Civic and a Toyota Camry look alike.
When you start making something that performs a basic function, and you give it a design with minimal embellishment, there are only so many forms it can take, and anything that takes that form is going to have a similar look.
Do people really think their preferred brand should have a monopoly on generic shapes?
I could be wrong but it looks like a speedtimer ssc947 with a swapped out jubilee bracelet. It was seiko’s homage to the original seiko “pogue” watch from the 70’s.
Edit. After taking another glance I stand corrected.
I think the pogue is a good lead, but look again at the dial -- it's not a chronograph and it seems to be more of a sunburst pattern that's darker at all edges. Plus, with all the speedtimers and related watches the red only occupies about 1/4 of the bezel, where this watch clearly has the 50/50 coloring like a lot of GMTs
What even is this entire conversation lol
This is why I love reddit
Watch nerds watch watch nerds.
It’s a seiko speedtimer ssc947.
Edit. Nope! I got the model wrong.
This guy watches
This gal watches.
This guy likes to watch.
no it isn't. too much red on bezel to be.
maybe he just didnt want the airport to get the money... at all costs
“Sorry sir, this suitcase is now against health and safety regulations due to the suitcase now having sharp edges”
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He wasn’t denied he got on the fight and one of the attendants brought him candy because they saw it.
The trucks on the skateboard are more expensive than the board itself. Hence why he broke it in half.
And it's no surprise with service like that Spirit Airlines is teetering on the brink of bankruptcy.
Teetering? They are currently in bankruptcy for the second time in 12 months
Don't worry the government will pay them to continue being worthless shit heads instead of letting another company take the space
Our glorious free market capitalism at work.
Oh wait... no, that's very explicitly the opposite of free market capitalism.
Well it is neoliberal capitalism and the result of not controlling capitalism.
But the CEO's salary (including bonuses):
2020: 2.59 million 2021: 3.87m 2022: 3.36m 2023: 6.6m 2024: 5.1m 2025: ~5m
What fucking asshats
Not gonna lie, I expected it to be higher.
It's crazy that the CEO doesn't do anything but be basically a mayor for the company. The other chief officers do the work with the bottom workers.
My bankruptcy was... greatly exaggerated.
fr. I run a college club that sends students to a professional conference annually. Saving cost is an absolute must at every turn for us. that being said, when we were considering how to get to the convention this year, we all agreed immediately that we would not subject our students to Spirit Airlines.
This guy? https://youtube.com/shorts/tM21UZ77R7M?si=5V2an5xLqzkHDjeR
This was a break the cheap part to save the expensive hardware situation
Pay $90 to check it or break it, carry it on and get a fresh deck at home for less than $90.
Easy answer
He owned the deck company
Can even see his handle / name written on the board at the end of the video
Exactly so literally the cost of some grip tape which he probably just has lying around
I mean there's some manufacturing cost too but I'm sure it's reasonable and well under the $90
... which the staff interpreted as aggression: "sir, that was not necessary!"
I would have fired back, what other choice did you leave me, apart from paying $89?
I would had said, " I was necessary, a deck cost like 20 bucks, ( I don't know real price" anyway the expensive parts are the wheels so no, I'm saving money breaking. It
That guy is awesome.
Malicious compliance, 10 out of 10. He did it so smoothly and calmly. No big scene, no unnecessary drama. Just did what he had to do in a garbage situation.
Yeah, he filmed it to put it online, but honestly it's good content lol
Lol, I came this close to getting myself preemptively kicked off a flight due to anger over this exact situation.
Edit: For all you pretentious assholes patting yourselves on the back painting me as the MC or some entitled brat who thinks I'm more special than everyone else, here's a concise summary. It's an old carry-on that used to fit but apparently airlines have shrunk the bins over the years. I have been using it for years without anyone questioning it, so I didn't even realize it didn't fit anymore. On the return leg of a trip, the same airline that didn't even bat an eye at it on my outbound flight suddenly made it a huge issue, so I was annoyed. Some of you Reddit folks really love to play the holier than thou, hail corporate game without knowing any of the details.
"You have too much anger too big to fit onto the plane sir. You should also check your temper."
please check whether your anger fits into the box before boarding
New board is cheaper than the fee in the video
Instructions unclear, i have now made a dark pact with the god of blood and am now consuming the biomass of the airport staff from every airport on the planet and nothing of value will be lost.
TBH that's also the most rational thing to do.
The expensive part of a skateboard is rarely the deck itself, it's the rest of the hardware attached to it.
Airlines are just so greedy that's it's worth the hassle of buying a new deck and transferring everything over rather than paying them.
Where is your information that he was denied.? I think you're making it up
At the end dude is curb stomping his own baggage so it fully fits in the little box. This is insane because that is the size of the pretty standard carry on luggage and they all have fkn wheels and i dont think many would fit in that stupid box lol.
I'd be so mad I would curb stomp and break my own luggage too cause apparently you would have to buy a toy size carry on for next time anyway lol.
That's the point 🥲
I’ve had a suitcase fit but they wouldn’t let me bring it on because they say it has to fit without pushing it.
I had one fit but they told me it had to have 2 inches of clearance on all sides. Now they're just making stuff up. I wanted to go on my trip so I stopped arguing.
2 inches of clearance? so it needs to be negative sized? Only bags of holding allowed!
They've already come to their conclusion and will make up whatever they want to justify it. I once had a carryon and a suit bag and they said I had to gatecheck because both counted as my overhead and I couldn't put the suit bag under my seat. So I opened by half empty carryon and put the suitbag inside and she said it still counted as two overheads because she already entered that I was gatechecking the luggage. Asshats.
Ha, sounds like something that would happen to me. Effing hate flying now and it's all due to the airport crap, nothing to do with actually being in the air. Also, really hate the way the TSA bark at people as if we're all frequent flyers. I've flown maybe twice a decade on average, sorry if I don't have the whole routine down pat, sheesh.
...do they want it to fit in via thoughts and prayers?
They really should state these insane terms on the ticket otherwise it doesn't count
See the slot on the other size of the thing he's shoving his bag into? That's for carry-ons (even had a picture on it with a bag with wheels). The side he's trying to shove it into is for your personal item (i.e. your backpack). I'd wager that the problem is that his backpack is the size of a carry-on so he's trying to say the other is a personal item.
This should be at the top somewhere – you're absolutely right, he's trying to get by with 2 full-size carry-ons instead of carry-on + personal item, which is just plain stupid🤦♀️
There are some that are designed to fit in those boxes with the wheels. I have a few coworkers that have them.
The issue is they keep making the size smaller resulting in people having to constantly buy new luggage. My gf has many luggage sets she's had to replace over the years because the set that was the correct size for last year's holiday flight is no longer the correct size for the current year's flight.
I travel a lot, I can only recall that the size has changed once in the last few years, the width went from 15 inches to 14. I can't remember any prior changes before that.
That's because he completely made that shit up
Different airlines have different size requirements for carry on bags. It can vary as much as a couple of inches
New conspiracy theory unlocked: airlines pairing with luggage companies to shrink baggage measuring boxes a little at a time. Luggage makers sell more, smaller bags, and airlines make bank on checking fees for suitcases that fit the boxes last year.
This happened in 2021, and to this day he is still trying to get the luggage out.
Yeah, but did he miss his flight?
Legend says that the flight is also delayed to this day...
I didn't know that Deutsche Bahn also operates air traffic.
I’m reminded of this guy who smashed his skateboard for the same reason.
In fairness to him, the fee was more than the cost of a new skateboard
He is a pro skater, so he gets a new deck for free. Now the trucks and wheels are real valuable, so you never wanna lose those. Besides, a new deck would run you about 40 bucks so it would never justify the 89 dollar oversize fee
A new deck is not costing anywhere near $40. Most well known brands today range from $65-$80 a board
You didn't account for inflation. his comment was posted 5hs ago
Also still under $89...
I live in a pretty expensive country and at my local shop you can get decks from many decent brands like Flip, Almost, Enjoi, Thank You and Darkstar for around 40 bucks. Even some Plan B and Deathwish for like 50 if you get them on sale, which they often are
Yeah, tensions were really high so I get why he did it. It doesn’t seem logical or even smart in the cold light of day, but we’ve all been there. I remember coming back from Spain. My suitcase weighed something like 1 kg more than what I came with. The lady was trying to charge me like €190 that I really really just didn’t have lol. So I went to the bathroom and I put on like three pairs of my pants and two jackets weigh the bag again and then just went through security. But she saw me do it when I came out of the bathroom, so they flagged my bag on the way onto the plane and when they asked me about it, I just told them I happened and they said “that’s absolutely ridiculous, it’s not even a full flight just get on the damn plane.
I mean it actually was a logical thing to do if there was no other way to get it on the flight. The trucks and wheels were likely more expensive than the deck. By breaking the deck in half he can take the trucks and wheels off with tools when he gets home and transfer them to a new deck
He also owned the deck company
Absolute imbeciles to make you do that lmao
Agreed. I had that exact situation. Put on 2 jumpers and transferred some weight into a plastic bag to carry on, and they just laughed and accepted it, this was in Germany
I was once 25kg over my limit because my flight to Japan (for a long term stay) allowed for two checked bags, but my flight home after a stop in Bali only allowed for one. A problem I did not consider until I was checking in.
$70/kg is what they wanted to charge me, $1,750.
With like 20 minutes until my boarding time I began frantically shuffling items around from my checked bags to my carryon. With some pleading as well I think I was able to get the cost down to around $500. Still insane, but I was out of time.
I tried to pay and my visa was declined. Again and again.
After like the 5th try the guy just took pity on me and tagged my bag and sent me through.
When I got home I called visa to find out why my card was declined, turns out I hadn't paid my bill while I was away and they'd put a stop on the card. So my own incompetence both created and saved me from the same problem 😂😂😂
$1,750 sounds like the "you come from a rich country so you deserve it" tax.
I once had to go home for a medical emergency, spoke directly to the local head of a small country's airline a couple times. He kept giving me the runaround, but seemed to want a bribe. Eventually he flat out said, if I really needed the flight, I would come up with $10,000 USD cash, and he just happened to be the guy to give it to.
we've considered getting a duffle bag to minimize the weight of the "luggage". Most of the typical ones are around 4-5Kg (10-12lbs), and so that takes up 20% of your limit right there
I did this once but instead of going to the bathroom I moved a couple feet aside the line, pulled out 2-3 sweaters and pairs of pants, put them all on, and then got back in line. I made eye contact as much as I could. It felt great walking past the gate agent.
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I think something similar happened to me maybe once. It was with checked-in luggage, and it was maybe 3 kg over the limit. So I ended up exchanging some more heavy items from checked-in luggage to my cabin luggage. I honestly don't know what's the point of all of this exercise. They are wasting everyone's time including their own.
Maybe it's a small thing, but really makes whole travel experience more miserable. It's really not that easy to figure in advance how heavy is your luggage when you are travelling, and it creates some additional travel anxiety.
I would say it might affect local business in the destination countries, as tourists will avoid purchasing too much to make sure their luggage will still meet requirements.
Although I noticed that check-in employees don't pay attention to any duty free purchases in the airport. So one of the tricks is to have some "duty free" bags ready for extra stuff and this way it's possible to take more carry-on luggage.
The point is that the baggage handlers are usually unionized and have a contract that states their job duties include lifting items up to XYZ lbs. So if your luggage weighs more than XYZ lbs then it needs to be handled separately from all the luggage that is under the weight limit. That screws with the work flow, which the airline doesn't want, so they charge a shit ton for it to strongly discourage people from going over the limit and messing with the loading / unloading of the checked luggage.
Yea well he keeps the wheels and all the expensive moving parts, so it’s not that bar. Just needs a deck which is less than $89
I also believe the wheels were more expensive than the board
"That was unnecessary sir" - I love this, unnecessary you say? Why, were you going to waive that fee?
Impressive that he knew how hard to stamp to bust that board in one go.
Never got too deep into it when I skated, but snapping your old board is something a good number of skaters do when they're setting up a new one.... Presuming they didn't need a new board because the old one snapped.
"that was unnecessary sir" pmo for some reason
So no head?
I wonder if he factored in the cost of buying a new just to prove a point.
I don't think he cared at that point...that was pure spite.
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Been there. Beijing Airport was making me get rid of some Korean skincare I'd just come with. Said I could keep one small disposable bottle. So my petty ass transfered over that overpriced snail juice right there on the desk. Making as much mess as possible.
So if anyone there sees an especially refreshed and glowing countertop with soft baby skin, you're welcome.
Also where my spouse saw a woman chug a whole bottle of brandy because she paid for it, dammit
Hopefully it was an old suitcase that he had planned to replace soon
Or it was just a cheap suitcase that costs less than the oversized fee.
He is in Germany so I'm not sure the prices there, but here you can buy a cheap suitcase for 40 dollars at Ross or Burlington. It's probably 80-100 dollars one way if you suitcase doesn't fit.
I had this situation in Munich once, but with weight. Just transferred some items into a plastic bag and put some more layers on and they were happy to accept
With the cost of everything these days, it was probably the same...
the plastic is brittle so most likely it wasnt new
The fines in Europe are typically around €70.
Before the pandemic, it used to be normal for low-cost flight tickets to include carry-on luggage of up to 55cm, so pretty much all standard trolleys would fit. If they had too many trolleys on board, they'd just store some in the cargo hold before the departure.
Then they changed the policy (you can only have a small bag of up to 40cm and have to keep it in the under-seat storage) and introduced this bullshit fine without proper communication. It was my one and only moment of air rage cause 1) it's just corporate greed and 2) they let people board with oversized luggage as long as it's a textile bag.
Shits like $30 at Costco
EasyJet charges 58 Eur for oversized carry on, it seems a cheap luggage so I am quite sure it was worth it.
I don't think I have ever seen a wheeled suitcase pass that test, luckily most of the times they are not actually checking with it, just putting it as a reference.
I have 3 that worked perfectly on American Airlines. Went in came out. Wheels and all. But then again I measured ahead of time.
I'll never understand why people are caught by surprise by these things.
I saw a woman at the security checkpoint wearing thigh high lace up boots throwing a fit because she had to take them off. Why she thought that was great air travel footwear was a mystery
I traveled through Europe for 3mo, all airports were fine with my bag until I was in Spain. Suddenly it was a problem, and I nearly split open my backpack trying to rearrange so it was just perfect for them... Super frustrating when it had fit just fine on all the other planes!
Yeah I don't think people in this thread realize that the exact requirements can change by a few inches in each direction depending on the airline.
When I bought my carry on, they had two that were essentially the same model, but one was an inch smaller, and it was called the Global version for exactly this reason. It was rated for nearly every airline. That's the one I got, cuz I travel international.
Heathrow only allows one tiny plastic bag of toiletries, much less the TSA and most of Europe. The security agent told me they were getting better machines eventually..
It’s basically the one bag rule everywhere, but many places just don’t enforce it
Also, per the TSA website, your carry on liquids are supposed to fit in a 1 quart bag, which actually is slightly smaller than the standard 1 litre limit they have elsewhere and that UK airports enforce
The shoes off rule is pretty inconsistent to be fair.
Same with liquids or removing laptops, but rest assured either way they’ll treat you like the asshole for not knowing the exact combination of rules they’re using that day.
Sir put your shoes back on like a civilized person. Who the heck told you to take off your shoes?
Sir, why the heck are you wearing a belt? You know that has to come off!
Put your laptop back in your bag! Backpack goes in a tray! Take your carryon out of the tray!
Wow. Scarily accurate.
That's the real kicker for me. The airport here now lets you keep a bottle of water when you go through the security check - sometimes. So what do you do, any time you take a flight you walk up to them with your water and ask if you can bring it through and sometimes the answer is Yes and sometimes it's No... but always the answer is framed as "OF COURSE NOT!" or "OF COURSE YOU CAN!" like you're an absolute imbecile for not knowing.
I have PreCheck and it's been inconsistent for me too, and one of the advertised features of it is "you don't have to take off your shoes"
I noticed this when I was looking for a roller bag a couple of years ago. Most of the bags labeled for carry on were slightly larger than what the airline said was allowed. It took a while to find one that actually met the requirements and didn't have terrible reviews.
Yep, it's insane how almost no one is building them to spec. I shopped for a new roller bag earlier this year and at least 95% of bags did not fit the requirements, unless you ignored the wheels. Some stores, none of their stock fit.
There is no "spec" or it keeps changing.
I’ve had multiple flights force us to fully immerse bags into these things. Not a single inch of the bag could be outside it. One flight literally no person that had wheeled carry on was able to get on without an oversized baggage fee.
I laughed when they fid that with my rolling duffel. The look on their face... they deflated when they saw mine was actually much smaller than they thought. 🤣🤣🤣
So you think they get commission, lol?
I had one that fit just fine for a few years. One morning I pack up, head to the airport, and discovered they made the check bin smaller so my suitcase no longer fits.
I've thought about getting another, smaller suitcase, but with my luck they'll just make that bin smaller again and it'll be a never ending size war with the airlines.
"Take off luggage" was built with detachable wheels for this exact scenario. Costs around $100, some discounts available.
let's not act like the passenger was the problem here. It's the airlines that make flying so inconvenient. The bag sizes also keep changing.
You aren't kidding. I have an Air Canada branded carry-on which is supposed to be approved. It fit on my way out to a location but didn't fit in the luggage checker on the way back. It wasn't overpacked or anything of that nature, the cage was just much slimmer. They aren't even consistent between airports for the checker.
Unless they force me, I never use the checker. And they're so overfilled they usually request people check their carry-on for free every flight.
I was forced, and when it didn't fit I looked at them and said 'are you kidding me?' and was then told not to worry about it, but the fact that it didn't fit and it was their own branded luggage pissed me off something fierce. I do want to add that it is not old luggage either. It is less than 12 months old.
Some airlines force every single passenger to check their personal item and carryon
For real. My family has used Taca/Avianca airlines to visit family for 20 years. Our carryons were fine until the last few years where the dimensions keep shrinking. They pretty consistently hit everyone in line with fees now. It's not like you can exactly argue with the check-in people out of fear of missing your flight. Sometimes even the gate people pull you aside and charge you bag fees (Happened to my parents last week).
My brother in fact broke the wheels off the carryon we had for years for my dad due to said fees. It's not ideal but what can you do when you barely afford to fly to see sick relatives and attend funerals.
I almost exclusively fly Ryan Air and EasyJet in Europe and never have had this issue. My carry-on is a travel backpack so it can squish. They should just ban hardshell luggage from the overheads because people will never figure this out on their own.
They made me pay once because an empty part of a backpack was 5 cm outside the lines - it would have fit in the box easily. I still haven't recovered emotionally.
How did they make you pay if the luggage fits in the box?
Yea, you have no problem after you have, soft backpack passes 20 times until someone of the cruw wants to screw you. My partner just paid 70€ in ryanair for the backpack. And the new measuring boxes are not like this, they are just a picture so it does not stay squished.
lol everyone can figure this out, but it is just annoying. I bought specific Ryan air luggage and 2 years later they changed their policies and now they only allow smaller bags. Also this luggage is too big for EasyJet.
They also never figure out how to put them in the overhead bin. The bags have the short end facing the hatch more often than not, that's what the size calculations are for.
But people still fire them in sideways, taking up more room, and then have to go rows back for overhead storage, and it takes an age to disembark because of it.
“Some discounts available.” wtf kinda ChatGPT bullshit is that to slap in there
They would absolutely say each wheel is a "Personal Item", I saw them one time say a jacket in a woman's hand was their Personal Item instead of their purse unless they put on the jacket.
this happened to me once with a chestbag where i keep my documents/earbuds etc, i made them wait as i took out every fucking item and jammed it into a pocket, just to put it all back in and back up the airplane aftewards. there is doing your job, then there is "i can see this dude has 5000 pockets and the outcome is predictable, better cut my losses"
and yes i'm petty as fuck
It's bizarre how it's even a thing. It's all going on the same plane.
While the core of it is sound, safety regulations and such, it is highly abused nowdays. Airlines would rather charge you basically for taking you in naked and squeezing you like a human salami and then just shit out out of the plane at the destination.
There's so many layers. From attendants which sometimes get boosts based on targets for surcharging, to relying on shame/fomo to force you to pay while putting you in a very inconveniant situation (missing a flight worth hundreds while under a time pressure). It's all quite predatory.
I prefer hotels rather than appartments sometimes because it's cheaper to just ship my baggage via courier services separately to and from than pay the airline for shipping.
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Don't fly a discount airline and ignore the clearly labeled bag size and bitch when your bag is bigger than what they state is allowed.
I mean, if the world weren’t full of assholes who keep bringing huge bags to carry on, we wouldn’t have this problem. Then again, if airlines didn’t fucking invent baggage fees, which is ridiculous (how you expected to travel without a bag, huh?), we wouldn’t have this problem. So why can’t we have nice things? Capitalism makes us all assholes. Thanks for coming to my Fed (Up) Talk.
I think it's more infuriating when you get to put something in the huge overhead bin, can easily fit like 4 luggage... but there is this one luggage that is too long so you cannot put it bottom first, you need to put it sideway and take more than half of the space.
Seriously I fucking hate this kind of traveler more than the policy. "Oh it fits!" and who gives a shit if it means 6 other people cant fit their actually appropriately sized bags. I bring my medical supplies in carry-on and I dont like to be separated from them but there is always some jack ass who does this.
As a frequent traveler, my sentiments are with you. Having said that, as a traveler, it's also capitalism and the competition it engenders that has forced airlines to reduce airfares dramatically, making flight available to hundreds of millions more people, and forcing them to get "creative" in dealing with this hypercompetition by imposing stupid unwanted fees like this. I hate these fees, but I think they come part and parcel with the behaviors engendered by capitalist competition.
EDIT: I came here to say the worker who wouldn't permit his bag is also a real jerk. Why not allow for the wheels in the spirit of the rule rather than the strict letter?
If it doesn't fit, doesn't it mean that the overhead compartment won't close? And then everyone on the plane would wait while they take his bag (and everyone else's that doesn't fit) off so it can be checked.
The people loading the checked luggage need to be paid. This is factored into ticket prices. If there is room in the cargo hold, the airlines can carry items for shipping, reducing passenger ticket prices. If you want checked baggage to be included in the ticket price, the ticket price will just be that much higher. The budget airlines give you the option of choosing that luxury or not.
Prices today are also much cheaper than they used to be. It used to be a luxury, but now is available to the masses. Most people purchase their plane tickets based primarily on whatever is cheapest.
https://www.travelandleisure.com/airlines-airports/history-of-flight-costs
Just pointing out that while airlines have very thin ROI, they all price fix with each other. They are not competing. They are a cartel. This is very well documented, so much so that we studied the American airline industry cartel in one of my econ classes back in college.
From what I've seen, if the bag is off like that, it won't optimally fit in the overhead. That means that bag will have to be turned sideways. When you have to put the bag in the overhead storage that way it can prevent one other bag from fitting in the overhead. Allow enough bags that are just slightly oversized like that and the plane will run out of overhead space fast. Yeah, you might be able to Tetris smaller bags in, but if most people are carrying the maximum sized bags, it'll force people to have their carry on bags checked.
Edit: I just learned that some airlines puts a less than maximum size limit on the free carry on. I've not flown on an airline, or used the basic economy fare level, that charges for slightly larger carry ons.
My unpopular opinion :
A flight I normally take cost $500-600 today. Guess what it cost in 1990? $400-500. How could the fare only go up about $100 in 35 years? Low cost flights won. Service and comfort lost. Fliers collectively voted with their dollars to get where we are. Sure, corporations are greedy, but the gave us what we wanted and we continue to buy it.
Regarding the question of traveling without a bag...People do. And some of them complained about the fare they pay to travel without a bag was subsidizing other peoples "free" checked bags. Why should they pay more when they weigh down the plane less? I suspect some VP read the complaints and saw opportunity to pitch a new revenue stream based on the customer friendly basis that it keeps some travelers fares low.
If you add inflation that 400-500$ is MUCH more than 600$ today. Flights have gotten cheaper.
I just wish all airlines were strict with the carry on luggage. It annoys the hell out of me when you are trying to find room for my carry on from the overhead storage... And there is none because people have been allowed on with ridiculous carry on luggage because they didn't want to pay for extra luggage...
I usually book extra leg room, so there's no option to store under the seat in front of me either (exit seats or first row), so if there no overhead storage available... (Yes, the airplane staff will store it somewhere for me)... Some airlines actually have their personnel standing by the exit seats when boarding, preventing people without the exit seats to store stuff in those exact overhead storages, which is pretty nice.
The one annoys me the most is when people have multiple bags, knowing full well the intent is one goes up and one goes under the seat, yet people throw them all up. Then I'm expected to put my ONE bag under the seat cause somebody else didn't follow the rules. Screw those people.
The overhead bins were designed for significantly less passengers on the plane. There's plenty of room for everyone if these planes still had their original number of seats. The extra leg room you're paying for used to be free because every seat used to have more leg room. People didn't used to have to pay to check bags.
Yes, I do remember the good old days of flying in the 1980s, when there was a lot more room, empty seats etc. But then again the plane tickets cost 2-4x more than today (inflation adjusted)... So yeah, there's the free check in luggage and drinks accounted for...
How do you say "Go fuck yourself" in German?
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Ita universal
It's 'fick dich ins Knie' which translates to 'fuck yourself in the knee' and I don't know why the knee tbh
Lufthansa
No body is pointing out that he is squishing the bag into the smaller personal item side (underseat bag) of the bag sizer.
Meaning he likely knew his bag was oversized and was trying his luck to not get caught (often the cost of adding a carry on bag size is more expensive than the flight itself in Europe).
OP should be getting downvoted for the blatant withholding of information to drive outrage and karma farming.
You can tell it’s EasyJet, which is the spirit airlines of EU.
The “outrageous” fee OP is claiming is… £5.99
Or $7.99 USD.
That’s the fee. Does what this person is doing seem because it’s a rip off? Or because the guy is insane.
Yeah… completely different context now. But of course that wouldn’t drive outrage, clicks, and karma farming.
I think you are dramatically underestimating the attitude Germans have to hidden fees, and unfair feeling rules. It's a matter of principle, not finances.
There’s a limit for a reason. It’s infuriating to be the person doing the right thing only to not be able to fit your legal sized bag in the overhead locker because everyone else on the plane thinks they’re entitled to take whatever size they like.
Whilst true, there should be a standard sized carry on that all airlines should adhere to and same for carry on bag manufacturers.
With a standard these situations would go away. But if you have different sizes for easyJet, ryanair, BA etc etc then people will get caught out for tiny differences and I can understand their frustration.
It's not realistic for passengers to have different sizes bags for different airlines. Make it one standard size for all.
Last time I flew I brought one backpack. That’s it. I couldn’t even fit my one backpack in the overhead bin because nobody seems to realize that your personal item isn’t supposed to go in the overhead bin and you don’t just get 2 carry ons for free.
This dude was trying to pass a carry-on item as a personal item. Kudos?
This is the correct response. I’m not sure how other people aren’t getting what’s happening here. You are allowed one carry-on and one personal item on a flight like this.
The carry-on size is bigger and his bag would be fine, but here he’s trying to wedge it into the ‘personal item’ side of the size template. It would fit fine on the other side.
He presumably had two larger sized items and was trying to ‘beat the system’, which is really just this guy stealing space from other passengers. Most of the problem here is the passenger, not the airline.
This dude for sure would stash that smaller bag overhead too if they let it slide. I hate when people pull that crap
You can see the 2nd item - it's strapped to his back and larger than the suitcase. He's 100% try to claim the suitcase is the personal item.
I got dinged on this. They sell luggage as a “carry on” bag. Because the dimensions of the bag fit. But then they add wheels. The airlines figured out that they could upcharge you for this by claiming it’s too big and forcing you to check it. You have to get carry ons specifically designed to get around this, which is bullshit. The baggage companies make more money. The airlines make more money. We get fucked. A nickel and a dime at a time.
I noticed this when I was looking for a roller bag a couple of years ago. Most of the bags labeled for carry on were slightly larger than what the airline said was allowed. It took a while to find one that actually met the requirements and didn't have terrible reviews.
This is a conspiracy. They are in it together.
It’s wild how many people are missing the point of your comment along with the general understanding of the difference between a carry-on and a personal item
"BS oversize fee"
Uh no. I'm sick of assholes bringing all of their luggage that should otherwise be checked and filling up every square inch of the overhead compartments.
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European airlines have shrunk the carry on size limit massively in the past few years. This is a German man. Plenty of bags that were 100% compliant a few years ago aren't anymore
He’s gonna gate check his bag then file a claim for damage.
Detachable wheels for this purpose is actually not a bad product idea.
This is a product that exists fyi
Based on the look of those, they do look detachable.
I don’t think it’s infuriating. I think it’s more infuriating that airlines offer multiple options for people to take baggage with them on a plane, for all budgets and requirements. Can’t afford to check a bag? Take a smaller one. Can’t go on holiday without a big bag? Pay for a bigger bag.
Nothing makes me madder than seeing someone on a plane trying to game the system, meaning other people go without.
Probably less expensive to buy a suitcase then to pay the stupid fee
I once had a similar situation where my bag BARELY wouldn’t fit ALL the way down. The lady had a bad attitude with me from the start and I wasn’t about to pay $90 extra at the gate to have it checked under the plane. (The plane was boarding at this time) So I removed one of the organizer pouches that had my underwear inside, clipped it to my belt like a fanny pack and now it fit just fine. Then she tells me that she can’t let me on with two personal items because the 8 inch pouch connected to my belt was now considered a second personal item. I silently walked over to the trash can, pulled out my stack of underwater, tossed them in the trash and stuffed the empty pouch back in the carry on.
These little suitcase size “testers” are also noticeably smaller than the actual space under the seats on the plane.
So I can very much relate to this man’s mindset in the moment 😅
The airline has another wheely unsatisfied customer
Ahhhh! Those brisk and efficient Germans!
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Hans and Franz are Austrian
A suitcase company should be taking notes, detachable wheels.
I usually have a small plastic bag that folds in on itself to fit in my jacket's pocket and use that to hold my jacket in the airport.
I travel alone a lot and I'm 18 so I do attract some attention as the "possibly incompetent kid"
a lady once protested that my jacket being in a bag was against the rules, which, no issue in that; I just took it out of the bag, put the bag in the pocket and started holding the jacket instead. she then said I can't hold it for some reason. I then pointed at half of the people around me who were either holding or wearing jackets each, and said "fine everyone 60 euros and I'll happily pay it".
she had the "whatever" look on her face and let me go with my bag :)