Most recently I observed an F/A with three carry-ons, these carry-ons were all strapped together, and the person pulling them could barely get them inside the aircraft, much less into the overhead without my assistance. As part of a cleaning crew I try to take some pride in my work. While covering F/C pillows, with nice crisp white covers only to have that same person, just place their dirty wheel-bags on these newly cased pillows.
When confronted, the F/A offered the usual, " I'm trying to stay of your way, the cabin in F/C is only so big".
In contrast, other OAL's we service, seem to place limits on F/A carry-ons. The OAL F/A board and stow their luggage and proceed to do their safety checks. They carry one carry-on and one tote bag, BTW, the OAL are foreign carriers, ( as is in leaving the country) this AA F/A was domestic to LAX.
This is a daily occurrence, Does anybody care about service to our passengers anymore?
There is no real limit. Most of us carry on 2-3 bags. Some carry more. It's kind of hard to pare down your stuff when your work items take up a large majority of space. We have a large manual, flashight/s, paperwork(more if you're the purser), galley equipment (gloves, tape, sharpies), a large roll of restraint tape to tie up out of control passengers, a laerdal mask to use for CPR, inflight flat shoes, and a uniform sweater. All of that crud takes up one bag alone. Then the other carryon has books, magazines, kiddie wings, extra pens to use when you loan yours and don't get it back, newspapers, my computer, my purse, my own blanket to use on my break or to warm my legs when I'm working all night and sitting right in front of the chillers that blow regrigerated air right up your skirt for hours on end. Then, let's not forget, we also have to carry our own food and water because AA doesn't feed us and we get fired if we take anything off the plane that we didn't bring on.
I can understand that someone putting their dirty roller bag on the clean pillowcase you just put on makes you mad. That's just plaiin stupid on the FAs part because she/he is going to be the one to get grief about it from passengers. It's also inconsiderate when we know you guys are going to have to run the new one down when you just put one on.
As long as we're going to complain about each other's work groups let's just talk about how the agents and AA expect the FA's to get on that plane, put our stuff away, check our equipment, do opening inventory on audio visual items, put out personal electronic devices in business class, check the demo, and prepare our galleys and predeparture drinks....in 5 seconds.... and you guys give us a lot of territorial BS about being in your way while we're traying to accomplish the most basic of tasks to start the whole process.
And WHICH of you genius's decided that lav supplies and cups and glasses was no longer your job? We're not really thrilled (FA's) about getting on the plane to accomplish all of our own tasks and having to restock cups and glasses AND lavs (using the supplies you left in garbage bags on our galley counters) on top of our duties WHILE you guys make us stay off the airplane even though you are 3/4 done straightening it?
