re: Do airlines even pretend to enforce carry on rules anymore?

Going to the whole carry on fiasco, I've noticed on 2 of my last 3 trips on SW, that the FAs now take an overhead bin over aisle 1/2 on the left side of the plane. They have a key and put their shite in there and lock it so nobody else can.

I first noticed 3 weeks ago when I opened and it had 1 bag in it. I put my stuff in and sat in the bulkhead seat. 2 min later a deadheading FA asked who's stuff it was and I said it was mine... She said "that bin is for the FAs". I said "where the hell do you expect bulkhead passengers to put their stuff since you all are occupying a whole bin to yourselves". Her comment was "well we need to put our stuff somewhere too".

She made me remove my bags then locked it with 1 bag in it. I ended up having to move back to row 5/6 because that was the next available bin.

I've taken more than 400 flights on SW in my life and I had never sen this before. FAs always put their bags in the storage between buikhead and FA seats or in the very back.

Move to Wednesday coming back from STL and one of the FAs got on a min after we started boarding, proceeded to take a key out of her pocket, open the same bin and put her purse in, then lock it back.

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the first airline to ban carryon luggage will earn my lifetime business

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Or go back to charging serious carryon fees. I have status on a few so I dont' pay, but there should be a level where folks have to pay big time. Would solve a lot of problems.