"Sylvain" wrote in message
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[...] Being PAYING customers
they have a far more legitimate reason to complain than employees
whose job it is to deal with the situation...

There is a time and place for everything. In the airplane during a flight
is not the time or place for arguing with a flight attendant.

Furthermore, if things are so bad as you say, then why are the airlines
seeing such high numbers of customers? I personally agree that airline
travel is pure hell. Passengers are not treated with respect, and are
forced to do all sorts of ridiculous things and jump through all sorts of
ridiculous hoops just to get from Point A to Point B.

But guess what? Most people obviously don't mind enough to put their money
where their mouth is. I don't have a lot of sympathy for people who
complain about the situation but can't be bothered to do anything except put
up with it. Obviously, most people don't agree with us that airline travel
includes a lot of unreasonable expectations and unreasonable treatment of
passengers. They deserve the crappy experience that they get.

In any case, in the particular scenario described here, the passenger was
actually wrong, the flight attendant was actually right, and even if there
wasn't a regulation addressing the situation, the flight attendant was well
within her rights to ask for the luggage to be moved to a position she found
more suitable.

Pete