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I was actually talking about recent emergency landings, fires and crashes where passengers have blocked exits by struggling to take their hand luggage with them.

I can't find my source but I read a while ago that in real life aviation emergencies, roughly a third of all passengers attempt to take their luggage with them when leaving the plane!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-34191035

Seems to have broken the weather station in Barbuda

http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/mesowest/getobext.php?wfo=pqr&sid=BARA9&num=12&raw=0

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I completely agree with this. Some of the 'hand' luggage is ridiculous and clearly should be in the hold. It makes getting on/off so much slower and really dangerous with people having 10 tonne bags to lift over my head.

Problem is the airlines have done this to themselves, The US charges $25 per item to put in the hold and they don't enforce that you have to until you get to the gate, where depending on how much room is left on board it goes in the hold for free. They wanted to put our small hold luggage in the hold as they had run out of space but let the women in front on with two huge backpacks.

If luggage has a fixed price per KG then why shouldn't people. Paying £25 quid for 20 kilos of checked bags but the same price per seat as the person who weighs 40KG more than you.

I thought that throwing a poo out of a window was an urban legend, some people.

My main reason for not checking luggage is queuing to check it in, not collecting at the other end. Some airports it's 5 minutes of a job, some airports it's upwards of an hour. If airports became less shit, or luggage fees less outrageous, I wouldn't mind checking my bag.

I only ever have one bag though, some people do take the piss. Generally though they'll take wheely suitcases to check at the gate so you're OK with a rucksack.

It costs the airline time and money to put bags in the hold.

Charging is fair enough I'd say.

I'd love Ryan Air to start charging excess £ for fatties. Imagine.

i'm not fat i'm big boned

What a thoroughly lovely chap, and so in tune with the world right now.

What an abject POS.

Fuckinghell. That's fella is the one who's maneuvering to replace May?!

Oh ffs - if he keeps spouting this shite, it'll ruin his chances of winning the next election for Labour.

why is the fact that he holds these views surprising to anyone?

his voting record on removing benefits for disabled people, tax cuts for the rich and welfare caps are equally fucking abhorrent and entirely in keeping with the rest of the cunts propping up the tory party

nailed it.

Exactly.

He's always been an objectionable Tory cunt. The Little Lord Fauntleroy persona is a crude attempt to disguise those objectionable views behind a veneer of respectability.

Let's not forget that at the last budget the Chancellor found £7m from his magic money tree to fund the restoration of Mrs Rees-Moggs ancestral family home.

A shower of self interested cunts.

Is now the time to mention that aviation is one of the major causes of climate chaos hurricanes?

I remember a joke by Simon Hoggart about Rees-Mogg's father--something like 'a good guide to living in the modern world is to assume the opposite of what Lord Reees-Mogg tells you is the case'.

There's this too;

http://liberalconspiracy.org/2013/08/08/rees-mogg-denies-knowing-hateful-groups-views/

He was told in advance of the views of this group, yet still chose to attend. Utter cunt.

But he was an amusing lizard on HIGNFY a couple of times.

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20170711-what-not-to-do-in-a-disaster

And the older:

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20150128-how-to-survive-a-disaster

I can't find the other article, but I believe it was a feature when the Amanda Ripley book came out. The article described how one boss at the WTC had sung to his staff to keep them sane as he marched them out, and died when going back to check nobody was left behind. This NPR has an excerpt from the Ripley book:

http://www.npr.org/2008/07/22/92616679/identifying-who-survives-disasters-and-why

In each of the small 'disasters' I've been in (jumped/attacked by a gang, coach crash, hit by a car and broken arm, mass brawl in a nightclub etc) I was afterward left wondering whether my reactions would be the same if the plane went down. That is, snapping into the 'what is happening and how can I get out' mode.

He'll fit right in with the DUP!

Odds of JRM becoming the next Conservative leader have been dropping since his TV appearance

https://www.oddschecker.com/politics/british-politics/next-conservative-leader

https://twitter.com/faisalislam/status/905392125352738816

https://twitter.com/SkyNews/status/905392042531971072/video/1

Faisal is wrong: May didn't say laws would be updated she only said the Transport Sec would "look at it"