You hit the nail on the head !!!!!  The rush of boarding and the blocking of aisles is 90% about securing your overhead luggage space. 

Wow some amazing stories .. Here's a tip - the 3rd partry booking websites are now so powerful that Hotels have to be on these websites to survive.  My tip is to get your price off the 3rd party website and then contact the hotel direct and ask if they can do better, generally they will as a...

The big point of difference between Virgin and Jetstar for me is the baggage allowance and how they total it.  Virgine is ONE piece up to 23kg and Jetstar is any number of bags that add up to the total weight of your allowance.  I got caught with Virgin - 2 pieces with total weight 16kg...