United Airlines Will Start Charging for Use of Overhead Bins

[pangaia]

Remember your last flight when you told yourself that at least flying couldn’t get any worse? Well, it’s about to get worse. United Airlines will soon start charging some customers for the privilege to use the overhead bins.

United has announced a “new tier” of ticket, as the company calls it. The airline’s cheapest flights will now be called Basic Economy, and if you want to store something in the overhead bin, that’ll cost you extra. Passengers will be able to bring a carry-on that fits underneath the seat in front of them. But don’t even think about putting something above you. That’s for people who paid more.

Here is the shit for brains United Quote:

We are not implementing additional restrictions on our customers, or taking anything away from them. United has announced a brand new fare called Basic Economy that is an additional option for customers and that will be cheaper than our regular Economy fares. For customers that are interested in bringing a carryon, our regular Economy fare will still be available. Furthermore, customers who purchase a Basic Economy fare with their Chase MileagePlus credit card will still receive priority boarding in group 2, and will be able to bring a carryon bag to stow in the overhead bins.

Soon there will be a fee to piss in the head. Or as it is called for some reason I never understood, The LAVATORY!!

http://gizmodo.com/united-airlines-will-start-charging-for-use-of-overhead-1789781785

[Coventina]

1. Fantastic timing!

[LisaM]

2. It's actually from last December

and, IIRC, they got some pushback on it.

[pangaia]

11. HA HA!.. I'm always up to the minute with news, as you can see.. LOL

[LisaM]

20. To be fair to you, I think these things start re-trending.....

once another story gets in the news.

[C_U_L8R]

3. And bandaids.

Apparently.

[samnsara]

4. fly Southwest!.. we (the passangers) start out not giving a sh*t....

...the attendants tell us jokes and luggage (2) is always free.

[wryter2000]

8. I haven't heard jokes for the longest time

I love Southwest humor.

"If you're travelling with more than one child, first put the air mask on the one you like best. If you're travelling with more than three children...why?"

On Southwest, you can have two checked bags and a carry on. The website is super easy to use, and I've had several free flights from them.

[Tanuki]

32. A few years ago they had a funny recording by James Carville and Mary Matalin

at the beginning of the flight explaining the seat belts, exit rows, etc. but with little jokes about the right side and left side of the plane and other harmless political jabs.

[CousinIT]

23. I always fly SouthWest. Haven't had an issue yet. And the flight attendant

on one flight made the safety talk/seat belt demonstration hilarious. The guy was seriously funny.

[MontanaMama]

5. We were weighing our options

for flights for our staff to attend upcoming trade shows. I'll take United off of the list. It is a drop in the bucket but that's 18 seats that they lost from our business. None of these a-hole corporations will care unless they're bottom line is affected.

[wryter2000]

6. Please tell me this is Andy Borowitz

I'm never setting foot on one of their planes again.

Love Southwest.

[pangaia]

14. It's Andy Borowitz.

NOT !!!

[meadowlander]

7. Cheap flights...

&t=248s

[dixiegrrrrl]

18. Oh, THAT is marvelous!!!!!!! Feck yah!!!!

[Hekate]

27. I LOVE this! I've known and loved this performance for years...

Fascinating Aida is sheer genius.

[meadowlander]

33. Me too.

So excited to have a chance to spread it around.

[Siwsan]

9. I had my worst 'lost luggage' experience with United

I flew them from Los Angeles to Lansing on a 'red eye' flight, once. They managed to lose my luggage when I changed planes in Chicago. Since there were several more flights from Chicago, I figured it would arrive within the day.

When it arrived in Lansing they called and said I could come by and pick it up. No, says I. Since I live in Flint, you can deliver it to me. So United said they would have their delivery service drop it off, later in the day.

Two days and MANY angry phone calls later, still no luggage, despite them insisting, several times, they had confirmed that it was on route. The delivery service actually called me to say they were on their way, but they never arrived. That didn't stop them from reporting to United that they had, indeed, delivered it, which made the situation even more irritating.

What had actually happened was that someone put it in the airport manager's office and it sat there for two days. Don't ask 'Where was the Manager?' Who knows. Probably lost. So, I was being lied to by both United and the delivery service since OBVIOUSLY United never gave the luggage to the delivery service, in the first place! Three days later, it finally arrived, along with a package of flight vouchers, and other assorted things to supposedly make my next flight, on United, more enjoyable. They also assured me that they had fired the delivery service. I gave the vouchers to a friend and haven't flown with them, since.

[Cirque du So-What]

10. About the lavatory...

The term originates from Latin and means 'wash room'. You are correct; such amenities are reserved for those who have the means to afford it. The hoi polloi can just hold it.

[pangaia]

12. Or pee on the floor...

Thanks for the vocab lesson.....

Now,, why would it be called a WASH ROOM if one goes there to pee.. or... you know... #2....

[Cirque du So-What]

15. The two don't necessarily go hand-in-hand

and I am unmoved by those who claim they don't need to wash because they didn't piss on their hands.

[pangaia]

16. LOL !! I never piss on my hands.....

[Cirque du So-What]

19. Perhaps not

but if I proceed with this discussion, I'll start revealing germophobic traits that remain well below the surface...mostly.

[pangaia]

25. You are way to quick for me.. UNCLE !!!

[mwooldri]

13. I guess United is trying to become RyanAir.

It's CEO once quipped about charging passengers to use the bathroom on the plane... at £1 a time.

http://www.cnn.com/2011/10/17/travel/ryanair-money-saving-schemes/

Seems like Southwest are becoming the luxury airline.

[Mr. Sparkle]

17. After the drop in oil price, i thought these silly charges would stop.

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Apparently not. In the not too distant future they will start charging for fresh air vs tainted oil air from engines.

[Ilsa]

21. The next "basic economy" restriction will require the flight attendants

to stack the passengers like cord wood.

[sinkingfeeling]

22. Well, since we're down to like 2 or 3 domestic airlines, this will

become the new standard.

[Warren DeMontague]

24. Next up, a charge for pressurized air

[pangaia]

26. LOL !!!!

[Initech]

28. Are the airlines in a competition to see which one is the worst?

Because that's what it seems like!

[democratisphere]

29. So many damn good reasons "not to fly the hateful skies".

United Airlines must be in a self destruct mode. Idiots.

[dflprincess]

30. I miss the days when airlines (and banks) were so regulated they only way they could compete

with each other was with service.

But just remember, deregulation was the best thing for the consumer.

[tritsofme]

31. So called "regular economy" is terrible these days. Economy "plus" or it's variant is slightly more

tolerable. This unfortunately isn't a particularly surprising progression, sounds like it will keep getting more terrible..

If you are a man over 6 ft tall, there is just no room for your legs to fit comfortably the way these standard economy seats are laid out. Whenever I've flown recently I end up paying an additional $40-80 (it keeps going up), one way, to have what would have been a normal amount of leg room 20 years ago.

[pangaia]

34. I do the same on any flight of about 4 hours or more..

Flying from NYC to Incheon or Kansai or Pudong is just intolerable for me otherwise.


Even NY to Gardermoen, Schiphol, CDG, Lisbon ... ugh!!!

Only 6-8 hours, depending...


I used to be able to deal with something like SFO to JFK.. no longer..