But they price discriminate so that people pay more to be in the front. If the people in the front get there and have no overhead storage space, there will be a lot of hard feelings.
They don't let people put bags in the first class area unless they're in first class. I think it's more about making people feel special. But honestly, isn't it special to be the people who spend the least amount of time crammed into a tin can?
What they seem to be doing is monetizing all the seats from front to back. So sitting forward in "coach" with an assigned seat and more legroom is incrementally more expensive than further back.
So full flights will fill the overhead bins long before everyone has boarded.
True. But you can still board the special people last if you don't let plebes (I count myself among them) to put bags in their zone. Economy Plus folks can't bring bags at all (just one personal item), IIRC.
