This is a sin and should be punishable by being jettisoned from the aircraft at cruising altitude. Or at least their bags, I am willing to jettison their illegally parked bags and spare their worthless existence for a little bit longer.
This. I was in first class recently. A321, 5 rows, was 3rd person in first class to board and nearly all the over head was taken. For all 5 rows. When the last guy in first class got on in row 1 he was on verge of meltdown, the flight attendant started grabbing bags and confirming if they were first class passengers or not and had them moved if they weren’t
I'm curious - how did so many people get onboard in front of you, that nearly all the F overhead space was full?
Outstation with really shitty boarding practice? Like I get it with gate lice and people getting on before their group, but dang - that is extreme!
Last week I was on a flight that called Group 1 and we all ended up in line in the jetway because the workers were still helping a wheelchair client on board. In order to facilitate things moving the FA called for all FC fliers to step to the front and board while the wheelchair was still in economy. It was crazy to see that the 8 of us were back in the line and passed all of the other either status travelers or just line jumpers.
I so badly want there to be numbered compartments in the overhead bins. Like cubbies in preschool. The number corresponds to your seat number and if your items don’t fit in your allocated space they either go under the seat, on your person, or gate checked.
THIS I had never seen so many people do this until I flew the week before last. I was in the second row in economy with multiple open seats around me. Yet overhead bin space was full?
Personally, I’m way more comfortable knowing my carryon is right above me. This should be against the rules honestly
Oh! Crowding the baggage claim carousel!
If we all just took 3 steps back, some of us short folks might be able to see our bag and it avoids that awkward "excuse me" to try to squeeze up and grab it.
Thank you. I posted this same thing about a month ago and got downvotes and called out for being intolerant of people who didn't want their bags stolen.
You are more likely to see your bag AND catch a thief of everyone stood back.
They are just the gate lice hanging out at the baggage carousel doing the same thing.
I have two techniques for baggage carousels. Stand back, and when i need to fart move forward, fart, and move back. silent or loud, doesnt matter.
second technique is when I see my bag, squeeze by saying "EXCUSE ME" and grab my bag and swing, "SORRY". My wife hates me when I do that, also once a fellow passenger on international, called me out saying im not sorry, I confirmed, indeed that I was not sorry, and blamed him for standing in the way ...
1000% this! I have the priority tags due to my status and my bag usually comes out within the first dozen bags and the amount of people whose shins are touching the carousel is obscene. Like seriously!!! Stand back wtf
YES!! 100%!!! People are blocking the carousel from passengers to get their bags while they just stand there like they own the place! Ugh, inconsiderate people make my blood boil.
The people who just stop walking in the most inconvenient of places and with no warning. It happens anywhere where there's a large amount of people I know, but I swear it's so much worse at the airport.
I've lost track of the amount of times I have nearly run into someone who decided to just stop moving and plop their bag down in the middle of a walkway with no concern whatsoever for anyone or anything around them.
I mean, normally I would say you shouldn’t run people over, but if they are blocking the exit of a moving walkway or escalator, you kind of don’t have a choice. So that is on them
I think there’s something in the air at airports where you either get zero awareness of your surroundings or you get hyper-sensitive of your surroundings. I’ve watched soo many people that just “float” and “oh? Me? I’m blocking you? No I’m not. You’re just kidding. Oh? I am? Uh I don’t know what to do”
I was running to my gate in MIA a few weeks ago and almost plowed someone over because of this! Got to the gate just as they announced the flight would be delayed an hour.
I KNOW. Common courtesy is definitely not common. Folks will just stand in front of doorways, in the middle of a hallway, anywhere as long as it is in front of me while I am trying to walk peacefully.
The kids are the worst. You’re telling me you can’t teach them to wear headphones at 2 years old? They can already operate the iPad better than you can.
We have a quiet flight, except for when we give you the Barclays advertisement. Did you know 25000 miles is worth an international flight in first class? it isn’t but sign up today anyway.
Lol on a few Alaska flights I've seen the nicest FAs suddenly turn into the strictest, most authoritarian air marshals when enforcing the no speaker rule and telling people to use headphones. The offending passenger usually quickly says sorry and fumbles with their phone to turn the volume off then the FA turns around to the next passenger and kindly says "can I get you anything sweetie?".
I very much appreciate it when they enforce that rule.
I sat in FC from MIA to DTW and for like half the flight I was listening to the person across the aisle playing candy crush without headphones.
My Sony's helped a lot but I could still hear it.
In fairness, I've sat next to plenty of people doing whatever on a phone or computer with earbuds in, *but the audio still coming out of their device.* Like totally not intended, and all it takes is a "Hey man are your headphones working...?" and they'll totally own up to it and figure it out.
If someone was being blatant about it I'd have zero shame in calling over to them and asking how their game is going and trying to make the situation as awkward and uncomfortable as possible until they figure it out.
I was on a long-haul international flight in business, and a guy had his headphones on but was singing to the music he was listening to. It wasn't that loud, but a guy near him called the FA to complain. Felt like I was back in grade school listening to the ensuing argument.
Last week on a flight I had someone behind me listening to a movie SO LOUDLY. When the FA asked her to put on headphones she said no because none of us seemed bothered enough to tell her to stop ourselves. Just because I hate confrontation doesn’t mean I wasn’t bothered 🫠
This actually just happened to me on a recent flight. Isn’t that not allowed? I was very tempted to press the FA call button but I just put on my noise cancelling headphones and closed my eyes.
I can tolerate a lot, and I can't fault someone who doesn't know what they don't know because they are infrequent or new travelers or whatever. We've all been there.
I hate knowing that on any flight, there might be some total ding-dong who can fuck over an entire planeload of people by being enough of a drunk or asshole to cause a diversion. Like how hard is it to just sit in a chair and shut the fuck up for a couple hours?
I really hate the gross chemical smell near the lavatory, and how dirty many planes seem to be these days. They’re getting to be like subway cars the way they never take them out of service for a deep clean.
Would help if there was better consistency for security procedures. E.g. the TSA website says that you don't have to take your laptop out of your bag if you have PreCheck but at some airports, some of the time, you do.
I’m precheck and I’ve had TSA screaming at me to take my shoes off and put them in the x ray bin. 3 weeks later I’m at the same airport and I get to keep my shoes on, but my laptop has to be removed from my bag.
TSA is half the problem. Idiots are the other 50%
This is giving people so much credit. It's like expecting them to know the rules of the BE ticket they bought and actively clicked through the warnings on or something 😂
Seat switchers (people asking others to switch seats with them because they want to sit with someone specific, but didn’t want to pay for an assigned seat).
Was sitting next to two kids and their father wanted me to switch my aisle seat (Which I paid extra for) for his third kid that was next to him in a middle seat. I said no. That kid talked to him the whole time, and the father looked pissed about it. He just didn’t want to sit next to that kid.
I had a dude sitting in my window seat, another woman sitting beside him in the middle.
"Excuse me, you're in my seat."
Looks at me dumbfounded.
"7D is my seat. What's yours?"
"7F"
"F is the aisle. D is the window."
Makes absolutely no gesture to move. Just continues to stare back at me, blankly. Does not compute.
"Don't worry about it. I'm fine to take the aisle seat."
No thanks or even acknowledgement I spoke. Just goes back to talking on his phone, on speaker.
Some people are so clueless. How they even make it into a plane is beyond me.
i had a woman one time sitting in my seat (she wanted to sit with the rest of her family) and when i told her she was in my seat she said that was her seat. i had a paper boarding pass with the seat on it and i asked her what seat was on hers and because i’d go sit in her seat and she tells me she doesn’t know where her boarding pass is (we are all literally boarding the plane). it wasn’t until our little game started to hold up the aisle and a fight attendant started to come over that she “found” her boarding pass and “realized” she was in the wrong seat. it was wild — i literally offered to take her actual seat and she held to it as if her seat wasn’t 10 rows back. like where did she think i was going to sit???
I don't remember the exact seat order. I just remember he was in the wrong one when we compared to the diagram above the seats.
Not really the point of the story, but Reddit gonna Reddit.
While this is annoying, I was just on an American flight a few weeks ago where I paid to select seats as I had a very nervous traveler with me. Flight got canceled, new flight in iffy weather, separated seats.
I didn’t feel too guilty asking someone to switch to essentially the same seat in a different row.
I was just in a flight last week where the woman in the middle seat behind me (near the back) waited until the man in the window seat beside her, who was one of the last people on the plane, was fully seated with his backpack under my seat and settled to ask if he’d switch with her boyfriend.
She didn’t tell the guy he was in the last row and he was losing a window for an aisle beside the bathroom either. The guy was so nice and just said “sure!” and went. I felt bad for him!
People who are in your personal space. Put their leg in your space. Put their arm on your arm rest. People who don’t fit into the seat (I said what I said!) I am midsize but I am also a short woman and fit anywhere. It’s so uncomfortable!!!
One thing I've only had women do (I am a woman as well) is fall asleep *on* me. I know they don't mean it but my goodness it's awkward when some random person's head is all the sudden on your shoulder.
This is why all airlines should have headrests that flair on the side to contain the head like you see in a lot of trains. Does anyone know if it is a safety regulation that prevents fixed flared headrests?
This is my biggest pet peeve I said something one time to a woman who like rushed up and her reply was “I’ve been sitting the whole flight I want to get off
The plane” like we all hadn’t been on the same flight
I always find it odd that everyone gets up the second we pull up at the gate. But, while I chill in my seat a few extra minutes, I appreciate that this behavior blocks those people. (Although I have seen people running from the tail to first class before the seat belt sign was even off, and the plane was 20 min early!)
I had some woman with multiple long braids swing around and hit me with those braids when she put her luggage in an overhead in first and sat in the first row of coach. I figured it was a mistake, no big deal.
When we were leaving the plane I turned around to look at her, and she was talking on her phone with her free hand’s index finger halfway up her nose, wiggling it around.
She was probably trying to scratch her brain.
Ok, you may have the most incomprehensible behavior right here. No one should be taking off their shoes on the plane and pissing in the sink!?!? What is our society coming to?
I love when I run up to them and say "excuse me" to pass by and they get all irritated and say something snarky. Bro some of us actually use the walkways to WALK
Why do seated passengers waiting at the gate take up extra available seats by placing their carry on and personal item on them? It’s such a main character move.
I choose a window seat because I want to see the spectacular views of Zion, Manhattan, Greenland or basically anywhere else that can be had while flying. If you want full control of the window shade book the window seat. If you want total darkness bring a sleep mask but don’t just reach across my seat and put the shade down.
Too many to list but I’ll try:
-pull on my seat back when you get up and sit down
-no awareness of back packs….im an aisle sitter and used to it really
-GAs that don’t board the flight in order
-disabled pre board that REALLY don’t seem so (i’ve seen plenty of them look pretty spry to make their connection)
-people asking you to take a middle or window further back so they can sit by their companion, funny, how they never want to be the ones that move backwards or to a middle when they could easily do so.
-seatmates bleeding over into my seat space… either them or their big jackets or itchy sweaters.
-people that deplane out of sequence
Such First world problems!
Talking loudly in the lounge.
I don’t care if you take a call and speak quietly—I’ve had to take calls in the lounge before—but why you feel the need/feel it’s acceptable to speak at full volume is beyond me.
I use a walker, I’m very clearly going to be pre boarding. Last time I flew I had to maneuver my walker between the ropes to get around a random dude who decided it would be a great idea to stand in the boarding lane 15 min before boarding even started. No, he didn’t get out of the way.
Then it turned out he was in first class… wtf was the rush?! Afraid they’re gonna make ya gate check your bag?! Oye. People.
My current pet leave is AA aggressively selling upgrades leaving elite members with a much lower chance of a “free” upgrade. It said “feel upgrade” until I caught it.
Sorry, I just did this for my AA flights in May. When I first booked the upgrade to first was offered for $197.00 pp per flight, a week later I was surprised to see it cut to $97.00 - making it far less than if I paid for first class at booking, so I went for it.
I am one of the most nonconfrontational people ever, but I recently had to ask a guy to stop slamming his fingers into his in-flight entertainment system. It felt like seat kicking but at the back of my head!
I was flying southwest once and a fellow passenger was being a number nazi checking peoples numbers, and calling out people who had more than 1 carryon, and then her bratty daughter brings on a guitar. Would have love to have smashed it in the overhead bin. lol
First place peeve: The supremely uncomfortable seats and lack of leg room mixed with people that are far too large to fit in their seats and end up squishing me, whether it's shoulders, elbows, thighs, or all the above.
This used to be a rare occurrence that would suck during the flight but I'd forget about shortly after. But it's happened on my last four flights in a row.
I'm a petite person so I don't need as much space as the average sized person. IDK how average sized or tall people deal with being squished by the seat, the seat in front pushing on y'all knees, and the passenger beside you. Better living through chemistry? Meditation? Teach me, sensei!
Coming in at a very close second would be the security theater that we have to pay for and endure. I can only speak for myself that it makes me annoyed while not making me feel any more safe than pre 2001.
When people don’t walk with a purpose or they have no spatial awareness. The airport is so busy, if you need to stop and orient yourself do so at a wall or seating area! Don’t zig zag aimlessly stopping or starting without notice or looking at the people approaching your vicinity.
I can handle the crying (I remember when my ears wouldn’t pop easily and I was MISERABLE, a lot of parents don’t know that chewing helps kids with this issue, so I can’t blame the kid for crying while uncomfortable).
However, kicking? Completely unacceptable. As a parent you are witnessing your child doing something that goes beyond your family circle, involving a stranger in your chaos, and not doing anything about it. This is 100% preventable.
I just spent a 5 hour red-eye with a child screaming and absolutely stomping the shit out of the back of my seat. It was one of the seven circles of hell.
I think the person is referring to the adults acting like kids too and not just crotchfruit type. Children crying and screaming is more preferable over the man child type.
At least they get a bonus for it I guess. I used to have to push cards back when I worked at a department store and there was no reward if someone signed up. They did get annoyed if you didn't get X number in a month though.
I was a seasonal worker in college so I gave no effs about whether or not they dinged me for that, so I never once asked. I felt bad for my coworkers who couldn't afford that little luxury.
"If I could have all you attention everyone...
"We have some special guests on board this flight....
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"That's right it's our World Elite Mastercard holders! You too can join today with this exclusive offer that won't be available once we land!!!"
I’m usually pretty chill. However, I draw the line when I’m already seated (aisle) and the person in window or middle doesn’t allow me to get up so they can get in. They just to squeeze through me and the seat in front of me. Blood boiling.
Somewhat related, and I am not saying that you do this, but people sitting in the aisle putting their seatbelt on before window and middle seat peeps show up!! Ugh!!!
Hahaha now that would annoy me too! Mine is always off and I stay ready with the aisle armrest up to let people in quicker and easier. I don’t rush them so they don’t feel the need to jump over me 😂
I experienced the opposite yesterday where the aisle person shifted slightly to let me into the row. I am a big guy, so I said to her. Ma'am you're going to need to standup, I won't fit. 🤣
I’m just grateful the plane got up and the plane landed safely. I just close my eyes and let people be people. I know in advance it’s not going to be a picnic, so why bother
My top 3 are the people who are either oblivious to the people around them or simply don’t care about others for example standing in the middle of a moving walkway with a backlog of people behind them or the people who randomly stop or change directions in the middle of a busy concourse expecting everyone else to go around them.
The 2nd would be the people who put their bags in the forward most overhead bin then go sit in the back making those that actually are sitting toward the front have to put their bags behind them making them “swim upstream” during the deplaning process.
3rd would be not giving the armrests to the middle seat, “man spreading” to the point where their legs are in your space or even having their upper body crossing over to your seat.
Everyone standing as soon as we get to the gate. I fly in and out of Fargo a good bit- those folks sit in their seats until their row is ready to exit. No ass in face. It’s marvelous
I get annoyed with this as well. Everyone’s waiting the same time for the jet-bridge.
What’s worse is when people are making tight connections and others who don’t have tight connections get up before the belt sign is off and take their time while others are worrying if they’ll make their next flight.
Idiots going through security with a ton of jewelry then taking it off one piece at a time and trying again.
Morons with backpacks or huge purses banging into people sitting in the aisles. I see them coming and stiff arm them.
People that say "I'll never fly this airline again"
All domestic airlines are mostly the same and you only have like three or four choices, if you fly long enough they will all piss you off at some point.
Everything that happens past row 17 on a 737.
Otherwise the service du jour of the 1st class flight attendants. There is no set way of service. There are at least 7 unique method of carrying out the same task.
When the plane lands and when u start deplaning and when it’s a person turn to get off the plane that’s when they decide they need to rearrange their bags, coats, whatever. Meanwhile they’re completely oblivious there’s an entire plane full of people waiting to get off while u take ur sweet ass time. Just grab ur stuff and go!
At TSA...people who put themselves back together on the other side of the conveyor belt. Take your tray, walk a few feet to the benches. Don't let other trays start piling up behind yours, and don't remain in the way.
"Child on lap." I got stuck next to a solo parent who had a toddler in her lap in the middle seat. Not 30 seconds after sitting down, the kid was grabbing me, kicking me, squealing when mom wouldn't let her eat a chip that fell on the floor...". I've been told that I can't hold my little purse on my lap during takeoff, but a 20 lb human is apparently a non issue. I get that kids sometimes have to travel, but they should be required to have a seat.
When someone asks me to switch seats so they can sit with their companion/ family. No way - I chose this seat for a reason and probably paid to upgrade. If you want to sit together, PLAN AHEAD.
Lol I would be the passenger sitting on the ground with a broken leg crying "but I'm Platinum Pro! 😭" while the crowd melees its way into the jet bridge.
Eh. Thinking back to the 90's, I feel like it was still some ordered process. Boarding rows X to Y... boarding rows Y to Z. "Groups" in their own way.
Maybe it was different before then but at the ripe old age of 39 I don't think back that far 😅
In 1962 took my first flight from San Diego to Sacramento. Dropped our luggage at a cart by the gate. Walked out the gate through a chain link fence, up the ramp and into the plane. We dressed up.
Overweight people who don't buy 2 seats ahd are in mine. Couples who buy d and f and talk over you in E the whole flight. People who put their coats in overhead in June. People who put multiple shopping bags in overhead. People who act like martyrs when they have to get up so you can get in the middle then immediately try to claim armrest
How about this: When D and F try to talk over you in E, join in on the conversation. After all, they are necessarily looking at you while they are talking.
If they reach over you to pass something to each other, accept it yourself and say “thank you.”
It's when they start passing shit like snacks. I have also been asked if I mind if they talk as they didn't expect anyone in middle. I have politely asked if either wants to switch but oh no.
Always having smelly farters sitting somewhere. near me. Every. Single. Flight.
I dramatically look around, turn the air nozzle towards the stench. It doesn’t work.
Le sigh.
When people don’t deplane in a timely matter. Get up and get your stuff ready ahead of time. Especially if you are in the aisle seat. Who wants to spend extra time sitting on the plane.
I have a lot, too, but I think my biggest is people using my seatback/headrest as a way to get into/out of their seat!
My other is people walking down the aisle with a duffle bag or backpack, oblivious that they are hitting everyone sitting in aisle seats with it!
People who wait IMMEDIATELY at the outlet of the baggage X-ray and start to reorganize themselves while the rest of the bags pile up behind them. Also, people that don’t stack their bins.
I stopped being nice about having to maneuver through dozens of people in boarding zone 362 standing in front of the gates while boarding zone 5. If you get bumped as I make a path for my wife and kid, it's your own fault.
I'd have to say people not checking their luggage, and attempting to bring everything on board.
I have one briefcase, basically filled with stuff they don't want you to check ( laptop, tablet, medications, precious docs, etc.).
If everyone actually bothered to check their damn luggage, and only brought on board that which needed to be brought on board, all the overhead bin issues would be gone overnight!
I fly a lot of RJ-900s and RJ-700s. So, I need to drop off and pick up my roller board on the jet bridge. People who don't follow the rules on how to line up on the jet bridge drive me nuts. There is an order! You get off the plane and wait in line along the left side of the jet bridge. You do not line up on the right side of the jet bridge where the luggage is set. Just as important, if you are in the back of the plane, you get in the back of the line. You don't go from Row 27 to first in line. This drives me absolutely crazy.
People who stand on the moving walkways and take up the entire belt instead of keeping to the right..and then refuse to let people pass!!!!! Happens to me all the time at DTW. Also, people who don’t move through TSA with purpose, even with pre-check. Irks my nerves.
The lack of carry-on etiquette.
No your backpack does not go in the overhead bin next to your roller. If it’s too big to fit under your seat, then you need to check one of your pieces.
- crowding the boarding lanes
- people who stand up as soon as the plane lands and grab their bag and then just stand in the aisle
- people who push ahead from rows in the back to get off the plane faster (not trying to catch a connection)
- people who clap when the plane lands
- crowding the baggage claim carousel
As someone with a dog allergy, all the “service” animals that aren’t actually service animals. It amazes me how on international flights, suddenly the service animals aren’t valuable enough to go through the process of importing them to another country. Almost like… they were never medically necessary to begin with.
Putting your bag in the front overhead compartments then going to sit in 29B
This is a sin and should be punishable by being jettisoned from the aircraft at cruising altitude. Or at least their bags, I am willing to jettison their illegally parked bags and spare their worthless existence for a little bit longer.
Yep. I wait until they are way back in their row and then move their bag back a bin or two.
Saw a FA do something like this on a recent flight, only moved the bag across the aisle. Great sense of humor.
This. I was in first class recently. A321, 5 rows, was 3rd person in first class to board and nearly all the over head was taken. For all 5 rows. When the last guy in first class got on in row 1 he was on verge of meltdown, the flight attendant started grabbing bags and confirming if they were first class passengers or not and had them moved if they weren’t
I'm curious - how did so many people get onboard in front of you, that nearly all the F overhead space was full? Outstation with really shitty boarding practice? Like I get it with gate lice and people getting on before their group, but dang - that is extreme!
Last week I was on a flight that called Group 1 and we all ended up in line in the jetway because the workers were still helping a wheelchair client on board. In order to facilitate things moving the FA called for all FC fliers to step to the front and board while the wheelchair was still in economy. It was crazy to see that the 8 of us were back in the line and passed all of the other either status travelers or just line jumpers.
8 members of one family board because they’re traveling with 1 “small child”, then procede to jam all of their shitty carryon luggage in FC.
Especially when I am in 1D and not only paid for a first class ticket but have no under seat space.
I so badly want there to be numbered compartments in the overhead bins. Like cubbies in preschool. The number corresponds to your seat number and if your items don’t fit in your allocated space they either go under the seat, on your person, or gate checked.
Ohhh yes!!!!
YES!! My husband brought it up once and I really wish they would do this. How simple a fix just to put labels in the overhead bins.
People doing this are always the stereotypes of low class people
I’d say they’re classless altogether, not low class.
Followed closely by the people who are *incensed* they were asked to move their bulky coat out of the bin.
Had this happen twice, both times in my row. I relocated their bag for them for free.
THIS I had never seen so many people do this until I flew the week before last. I was in the second row in economy with multiple open seats around me. Yet overhead bin space was full? Personally, I’m way more comfortable knowing my carryon is right above me. This should be against the rules honestly
Oh! Crowding the baggage claim carousel! If we all just took 3 steps back, some of us short folks might be able to see our bag and it avoids that awkward "excuse me" to try to squeeze up and grab it.
Thank you. I posted this same thing about a month ago and got downvotes and called out for being intolerant of people who didn't want their bags stolen. You are more likely to see your bag AND catch a thief of everyone stood back. They are just the gate lice hanging out at the baggage carousel doing the same thing.
I have two techniques for baggage carousels. Stand back, and when i need to fart move forward, fart, and move back. silent or loud, doesnt matter. second technique is when I see my bag, squeeze by saying "EXCUSE ME" and grab my bag and swing, "SORRY". My wife hates me when I do that, also once a fellow passenger on international, called me out saying im not sorry, I confirmed, indeed that I was not sorry, and blamed him for standing in the way ...
1000% this! I have the priority tags due to my status and my bag usually comes out within the first dozen bags and the amount of people whose shins are touching the carousel is obscene. Like seriously!!! Stand back wtf
I always obnoxiously "accidentally" hit people standing right at the carousel when unloading my bag. "Oh sorry, I didn't have enough room."
YES!! 100%!!! People are blocking the carousel from passengers to get their bags while they just stand there like they own the place! Ugh, inconsiderate people make my blood boil.
The people who just stop walking in the most inconvenient of places and with no warning. It happens anywhere where there's a large amount of people I know, but I swear it's so much worse at the airport. I've lost track of the amount of times I have nearly run into someone who decided to just stop moving and plop their bag down in the middle of a walkway with no concern whatsoever for anyone or anything around them.
people for some reason love to stop at the end of the moving walkway or escalator. I usually run them over.
They were basically asking for it.
I mean, normally I would say you shouldn’t run people over, but if they are blocking the exit of a moving walkway or escalator, you kind of don’t have a choice. So that is on them
I think there’s something in the air at airports where you either get zero awareness of your surroundings or you get hyper-sensitive of your surroundings. I’ve watched soo many people that just “float” and “oh? Me? I’m blocking you? No I’m not. You’re just kidding. Oh? I am? Uh I don’t know what to do”
Go to Las Vegas, this makes everyone you’ve ever “excused me” past at an airport seem like a valuable contributor to civilization.
Ha! I recently went actually and I noticed slow walkers more than dead stoppers. How do people walk that slow?? Seriously.
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I was running to my gate in MIA a few weeks ago and almost plowed someone over because of this! Got to the gate just as they announced the flight would be delayed an hour.
I KNOW. Common courtesy is definitely not common. Folks will just stand in front of doorways, in the middle of a hallway, anywhere as long as it is in front of me while I am trying to walk peacefully.
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Recent flights the FA have announced to quiet flight policy and using of headphones...
The ones that say 'this includes children's devices' are the real MVPs.
The kids are the worst. You’re telling me you can’t teach them to wear headphones at 2 years old? They can already operate the iPad better than you can.
We have a quiet flight, except for when we give you the Barclays advertisement. Did you know 25000 miles is worth an international flight in first class? it isn’t but sign up today anyway.
Press the call button. Stop tolerating this behavior.
Lol on a few Alaska flights I've seen the nicest FAs suddenly turn into the strictest, most authoritarian air marshals when enforcing the no speaker rule and telling people to use headphones. The offending passenger usually quickly says sorry and fumbles with their phone to turn the volume off then the FA turns around to the next passenger and kindly says "can I get you anything sweetie?". I very much appreciate it when they enforce that rule.
I sat in FC from MIA to DTW and for like half the flight I was listening to the person across the aisle playing candy crush without headphones. My Sony's helped a lot but I could still hear it.
In fairness, I've sat next to plenty of people doing whatever on a phone or computer with earbuds in, *but the audio still coming out of their device.* Like totally not intended, and all it takes is a "Hey man are your headphones working...?" and they'll totally own up to it and figure it out. If someone was being blatant about it I'd have zero shame in calling over to them and asking how their game is going and trying to make the situation as awkward and uncomfortable as possible until they figure it out.
I was on a long-haul international flight in business, and a guy had his headphones on but was singing to the music he was listening to. It wasn't that loud, but a guy near him called the FA to complain. Felt like I was back in grade school listening to the ensuing argument.
Lol this happened to me one time somehow my beats like disconnected from my Bluetooth I was so embarrassed!!!
On one of my flights the flight attendant came by and told the passenger to stop
[удалено]
Keep doing the lords work.
Last week on a flight I had someone behind me listening to a movie SO LOUDLY. When the FA asked her to put on headphones she said no because none of us seemed bothered enough to tell her to stop ourselves. Just because I hate confrontation doesn’t mean I wasn’t bothered 🫠
This actually just happened to me on a recent flight. Isn’t that not allowed? I was very tempted to press the FA call button but I just put on my noise cancelling headphones and closed my eyes.
I can tolerate a lot, and I can't fault someone who doesn't know what they don't know because they are infrequent or new travelers or whatever. We've all been there. I hate knowing that on any flight, there might be some total ding-dong who can fuck over an entire planeload of people by being enough of a drunk or asshole to cause a diversion. Like how hard is it to just sit in a chair and shut the fuck up for a couple hours?
I really hate the gross chemical smell near the lavatory, and how dirty many planes seem to be these days. They’re getting to be like subway cars the way they never take them out of service for a deep clean.
People that let their kids watch movies or play games with the sound on… and no headset
People in the pre check line that have no idea what to do
Would help if there was better consistency for security procedures. E.g. the TSA website says that you don't have to take your laptop out of your bag if you have PreCheck but at some airports, some of the time, you do.
They are inconsistent on purpose. Or maybe I’m giving them a very generous assumption 🤣
I’m precheck and I’ve had TSA screaming at me to take my shoes off and put them in the x ray bin. 3 weeks later I’m at the same airport and I get to keep my shoes on, but my laptop has to be removed from my bag. TSA is half the problem. Idiots are the other 50%
Yup, TSA is inconsistent, and it's also by design
My pet peeve is tsa workers who don’t know the precheck rules
In fairness, TSA just gives you your KTN and then no one tells you how to use it. But it is a very Google-able problem
But you actively have to apply to get pre check, so in my opinion you should actively understand what it entails
This is giving people so much credit. It's like expecting them to know the rules of the BE ticket they bought and actively clicked through the warnings on or something 😂
Eh on one side you have people trying to save money on a service vs spend money on a nice to have.
Not this, because it varies wildly from airport to airport
Seat switchers (people asking others to switch seats with them because they want to sit with someone specific, but didn’t want to pay for an assigned seat).
Was sitting next to two kids and their father wanted me to switch my aisle seat (Which I paid extra for) for his third kid that was next to him in a middle seat. I said no. That kid talked to him the whole time, and the father looked pissed about it. He just didn’t want to sit next to that kid.
I had a dude sitting in my window seat, another woman sitting beside him in the middle. "Excuse me, you're in my seat." Looks at me dumbfounded. "7D is my seat. What's yours?" "7F" "F is the aisle. D is the window." Makes absolutely no gesture to move. Just continues to stare back at me, blankly. Does not compute. "Don't worry about it. I'm fine to take the aisle seat." No thanks or even acknowledgement I spoke. Just goes back to talking on his phone, on speaker. Some people are so clueless. How they even make it into a plane is beyond me.
i had a woman one time sitting in my seat (she wanted to sit with the rest of her family) and when i told her she was in my seat she said that was her seat. i had a paper boarding pass with the seat on it and i asked her what seat was on hers and because i’d go sit in her seat and she tells me she doesn’t know where her boarding pass is (we are all literally boarding the plane). it wasn’t until our little game started to hold up the aisle and a fight attendant started to come over that she “found” her boarding pass and “realized” she was in the wrong seat. it was wild — i literally offered to take her actual seat and she held to it as if her seat wasn’t 10 rows back. like where did she think i was going to sit???
Except D is the Aisle and F is the window...
I don't remember the exact seat order. I just remember he was in the wrong one when we compared to the diagram above the seats. Not really the point of the story, but Reddit gonna Reddit.
This is only annoying if they’re asking you to switch to a worse seat.
Unless I’m being moved to first class, I always find it annoying.
While this is annoying, I was just on an American flight a few weeks ago where I paid to select seats as I had a very nervous traveler with me. Flight got canceled, new flight in iffy weather, separated seats. I didn’t feel too guilty asking someone to switch to essentially the same seat in a different row.
I was just in a flight last week where the woman in the middle seat behind me (near the back) waited until the man in the window seat beside her, who was one of the last people on the plane, was fully seated with his backpack under my seat and settled to ask if he’d switch with her boyfriend. She didn’t tell the guy he was in the last row and he was losing a window for an aisle beside the bathroom either. The guy was so nice and just said “sure!” and went. I felt bad for him!
Honestly, if all they do I’d ask nicely, you can just say no
People who are in your personal space. Put their leg in your space. Put their arm on your arm rest. People who don’t fit into the seat (I said what I said!) I am midsize but I am also a short woman and fit anywhere. It’s so uncomfortable!!!
Man spreaders are the worst. I’ve only had men do this.
One thing I've only had women do (I am a woman as well) is fall asleep *on* me. I know they don't mean it but my goodness it's awkward when some random person's head is all the sudden on your shoulder.
This is why all airlines should have headrests that flair on the side to contain the head like you see in a lot of trains. Does anyone know if it is a safety regulation that prevents fixed flared headrests?
You used both flair and flare and I swear at first you were talking about actual flair, a la Office Space and I was bout to get on board with this!
I had someone take their shoes off and do this my last flight. Tried to wake him and he was either reallllly passed out or pretending to be asleep.
People who try to deplane before the rows ahead of them do. Just wait for like 10 extra seconds and we can just get off the plane row-by-row
This is my biggest pet peeve I said something one time to a woman who like rushed up and her reply was “I’ve been sitting the whole flight I want to get off The plane” like we all hadn’t been on the same flight
I always find it odd that everyone gets up the second we pull up at the gate. But, while I chill in my seat a few extra minutes, I appreciate that this behavior blocks those people. (Although I have seen people running from the tail to first class before the seat belt sign was even off, and the plane was 20 min early!)
People who wear their overstuffed backpacks as they walk down the aisle, thinking they can spin around without smacking everyone in the face.
I had some woman with multiple long braids swing around and hit me with those braids when she put her luggage in an overhead in first and sat in the first row of coach. I figured it was a mistake, no big deal. When we were leaving the plane I turned around to look at her, and she was talking on her phone with her free hand’s index finger halfway up her nose, wiggling it around. She was probably trying to scratch her brain.
bare feet and sink pissing
Ok, you may have the most incomprehensible behavior right here. No one should be taking off their shoes on the plane and pissing in the sink!?!? What is our society coming to?
I mean, I agree with you 100% but it happens! and I hate it eta: do NOT visit r/sinkpissers
Hello new nightmare fuel
Did you not see the “do not go there” warning? I took that seriously and didn’t go there 😂😂
I knew I held my bladder for unreasonable amounts of time for a reason. Sink pissing is the reason!
People standing obliviously in the way on moving walkway when people in a hurry are trying to make their connections...
I love when I run up to them and say "excuse me" to pass by and they get all irritated and say something snarky. Bro some of us actually use the walkways to WALK
I see it all the time.
The other people.
Why do seated passengers waiting at the gate take up extra available seats by placing their carry on and personal item on them? It’s such a main character move.
Yup! This is mine. Second being clowns talking on speakerphone or listening to their phone without headphones
Rolling delays. Pushing it back 15 minutes everytime and no one says what’s going on.
I choose a window seat because I want to see the spectacular views of Zion, Manhattan, Greenland or basically anywhere else that can be had while flying. If you want full control of the window shade book the window seat. If you want total darkness bring a sleep mask but don’t just reach across my seat and put the shade down.
Farters on my plane.
Friends don’t let friends fly without Gas-X.
Conversations on speaker phone/watching videos without earphones.
The speakerphone conversations sometimes don’t bother me cause I’m nosy
Too many to list but I’ll try: -pull on my seat back when you get up and sit down -no awareness of back packs….im an aisle sitter and used to it really -GAs that don’t board the flight in order -disabled pre board that REALLY don’t seem so (i’ve seen plenty of them look pretty spry to make their connection) -people asking you to take a middle or window further back so they can sit by their companion, funny, how they never want to be the ones that move backwards or to a middle when they could easily do so. -seatmates bleeding over into my seat space… either them or their big jackets or itchy sweaters. -people that deplane out of sequence Such First world problems!
Talking loudly in the lounge. I don’t care if you take a call and speak quietly—I’ve had to take calls in the lounge before—but why you feel the need/feel it’s acceptable to speak at full volume is beyond me.
People’s mistreatment of airline employees #1 People’s lack of regard for fellow travelers #2 People’s complaints on AA REDDIT a close #3
You mean you don’t enjoy the “am I deserving of compensation?” threads?
I enjoy responding, snarkily
People who literally can’t figure out where their seat space/ leg space ends.
People who act like the flight attendants are personally responsible for flight delays. Trust me, they also want this plane to take off!
I use a walker, I’m very clearly going to be pre boarding. Last time I flew I had to maneuver my walker between the ropes to get around a random dude who decided it would be a great idea to stand in the boarding lane 15 min before boarding even started. No, he didn’t get out of the way. Then it turned out he was in first class… wtf was the rush?! Afraid they’re gonna make ya gate check your bag?! Oye. People.
People. All people. 😉
People
My current pet leave is AA aggressively selling upgrades leaving elite members with a much lower chance of a “free” upgrade. It said “feel upgrade” until I caught it.
Yup I used to get upgraded pretty often. This year it is a desert out there for free upgrades. 🐪🌵🏜️
I always buy them, AA needs the money.
Dude! You’re taking our free upgrades!! 🤪/s
Sorry, I just did this for my AA flights in May. When I first booked the upgrade to first was offered for $197.00 pp per flight, a week later I was surprised to see it cut to $97.00 - making it far less than if I paid for first class at booking, so I went for it.
Weirdly, I’m 2/2 for upgrades for the status year. I fully expect the steak to be broken later this week, but so far I’m not mad at it.
I am one of the most nonconfrontational people ever, but I recently had to ask a guy to stop slamming his fingers into his in-flight entertainment system. It felt like seat kicking but at the back of my head!
Passengers with B.O
I was flying southwest once and a fellow passenger was being a number nazi checking peoples numbers, and calling out people who had more than 1 carryon, and then her bratty daughter brings on a guitar. Would have love to have smashed it in the overhead bin. lol
First place peeve: The supremely uncomfortable seats and lack of leg room mixed with people that are far too large to fit in their seats and end up squishing me, whether it's shoulders, elbows, thighs, or all the above. This used to be a rare occurrence that would suck during the flight but I'd forget about shortly after. But it's happened on my last four flights in a row. I'm a petite person so I don't need as much space as the average sized person. IDK how average sized or tall people deal with being squished by the seat, the seat in front pushing on y'all knees, and the passenger beside you. Better living through chemistry? Meditation? Teach me, sensei! Coming in at a very close second would be the security theater that we have to pay for and endure. I can only speak for myself that it makes me annoyed while not making me feel any more safe than pre 2001.
Absolutely agree with you about the window dressing that is TSA.
People who try to walk past as you’re removing a bag from the overhead bin. Just wait a second so my bag doesn’t almost land on your head.
Not waiting your turn to get off the plane.
When people don’t walk with a purpose or they have no spatial awareness. The airport is so busy, if you need to stop and orient yourself do so at a wall or seating area! Don’t zig zag aimlessly stopping or starting without notice or looking at the people approaching your vicinity.
I've had people start shoving me and asking what group I am in when I start to line up. I'm always in group one.
kids crying and kicking seats
I can handle the crying (I remember when my ears wouldn’t pop easily and I was MISERABLE, a lot of parents don’t know that chewing helps kids with this issue, so I can’t blame the kid for crying while uncomfortable). However, kicking? Completely unacceptable. As a parent you are witnessing your child doing something that goes beyond your family circle, involving a stranger in your chaos, and not doing anything about it. This is 100% preventable. I just spent a 5 hour red-eye with a child screaming and absolutely stomping the shit out of the back of my seat. It was one of the seven circles of hell.
As a mom who had a crying toddler on a flight one morning. I am so sorry 🫠. I truly wanted it to stop as much as you did. 😭
Lol ill take crying (I have noise canceling) but not the kicking drives me batty
We try to be patient with the parents but we can only take so much. Please control your spawn.
I think the person is referring to the adults acting like kids too and not just crotchfruit type. Children crying and screaming is more preferable over the man child type.
The annoying credit card announcement, makes me want to scream STFU, seen like another step into turning the airline into spirit.
I bet it’s so frustrating for the FA to have to push these cards
At least they get a bonus for it I guess. I used to have to push cards back when I worked at a department store and there was no reward if someone signed up. They did get annoyed if you didn't get X number in a month though. I was a seasonal worker in college so I gave no effs about whether or not they dinged me for that, so I never once asked. I felt bad for my coworkers who couldn't afford that little luxury.
"If I could have all you attention everyone... "We have some special guests on board this flight.... .... "That's right it's our World Elite Mastercard holders! You too can join today with this exclusive offer that won't be available once we land!!!"
And you can’t opt out of hearing the announcement if you already have the card!
I’m usually pretty chill. However, I draw the line when I’m already seated (aisle) and the person in window or middle doesn’t allow me to get up so they can get in. They just to squeeze through me and the seat in front of me. Blood boiling.
Somewhat related, and I am not saying that you do this, but people sitting in the aisle putting their seatbelt on before window and middle seat peeps show up!! Ugh!!!
Hahaha now that would annoy me too! Mine is always off and I stay ready with the aisle armrest up to let people in quicker and easier. I don’t rush them so they don’t feel the need to jump over me 😂
I experienced the opposite yesterday where the aisle person shifted slightly to let me into the row. I am a big guy, so I said to her. Ma'am you're going to need to standup, I won't fit. 🤣
😂 that is too funny. You were almost cheek to cheek with her.
I’m just grateful the plane got up and the plane landed safely. I just close my eyes and let people be people. I know in advance it’s not going to be a picnic, so why bother
Putting personal items in the overhead bins
People who don’t zipper when deplaning. Like, I thought we all know how this works?!
Toilet paper quality- so thin and rough! My poor parts!
My top 3 are the people who are either oblivious to the people around them or simply don’t care about others for example standing in the middle of a moving walkway with a backlog of people behind them or the people who randomly stop or change directions in the middle of a busy concourse expecting everyone else to go around them. The 2nd would be the people who put their bags in the forward most overhead bin then go sit in the back making those that actually are sitting toward the front have to put their bags behind them making them “swim upstream” during the deplaning process. 3rd would be not giving the armrests to the middle seat, “man spreading” to the point where their legs are in your space or even having their upper body crossing over to your seat.
Everyone standing as soon as we get to the gate. I fly in and out of Fargo a good bit- those folks sit in their seats until their row is ready to exit. No ass in face. It’s marvelous
I get annoyed with this as well. Everyone’s waiting the same time for the jet-bridge. What’s worse is when people are making tight connections and others who don’t have tight connections get up before the belt sign is off and take their time while others are worrying if they’ll make their next flight.
Idiots going through security with a ton of jewelry then taking it off one piece at a time and trying again. Morons with backpacks or huge purses banging into people sitting in the aisles. I see them coming and stiff arm them.
People that say "I'll never fly this airline again" All domestic airlines are mostly the same and you only have like three or four choices, if you fly long enough they will all piss you off at some point.
People who stand in on the escalator or moving walkway with their roller bag next to them, blocking everyone else from passing them.
Everything that happens past row 17 on a 737. Otherwise the service du jour of the 1st class flight attendants. There is no set way of service. There are at least 7 unique method of carrying out the same task.
When the plane lands and when u start deplaning and when it’s a person turn to get off the plane that’s when they decide they need to rearrange their bags, coats, whatever. Meanwhile they’re completely oblivious there’s an entire plane full of people waiting to get off while u take ur sweet ass time. Just grab ur stuff and go!
Speakerphone
People with big backpacks walking down aisle turning around and leveling everyone in aisle seats!
No headphones as they doomscroll
At TSA...people who put themselves back together on the other side of the conveyor belt. Take your tray, walk a few feet to the benches. Don't let other trays start piling up behind yours, and don't remain in the way.
"Child on lap." I got stuck next to a solo parent who had a toddler in her lap in the middle seat. Not 30 seconds after sitting down, the kid was grabbing me, kicking me, squealing when mom wouldn't let her eat a chip that fell on the floor...". I've been told that I can't hold my little purse on my lap during takeoff, but a 20 lb human is apparently a non issue. I get that kids sometimes have to travel, but they should be required to have a seat.
When someone asks me to switch seats so they can sit with their companion/ family. No way - I chose this seat for a reason and probably paid to upgrade. If you want to sit together, PLAN AHEAD.
I remember when there weren't groups. People just got on.
How does that work? Ok, ready? Board in 3….2….1….GO!!!!! Then everyone battles to the death?
No, the plane sat there for probably 30 minutes and people got on when they were ready. 1962
And than went to the back of the plane and lit up a cigarette.
🤯
Lol I would be the passenger sitting on the ground with a broken leg crying "but I'm Platinum Pro! 😭" while the crowd melees its way into the jet bridge.
This should be a scene in a movie now.
Eh. Thinking back to the 90's, I feel like it was still some ordered process. Boarding rows X to Y... boarding rows Y to Z. "Groups" in their own way. Maybe it was different before then but at the ripe old age of 39 I don't think back that far 😅
In 1962 took my first flight from San Diego to Sacramento. Dropped our luggage at a cart by the gate. Walked out the gate through a chain link fence, up the ramp and into the plane. We dressed up.
You are, as the kids say, an OG.
Overweight people who don't buy 2 seats ahd are in mine. Couples who buy d and f and talk over you in E the whole flight. People who put their coats in overhead in June. People who put multiple shopping bags in overhead. People who act like martyrs when they have to get up so you can get in the middle then immediately try to claim armrest
How about this: When D and F try to talk over you in E, join in on the conversation. After all, they are necessarily looking at you while they are talking. If they reach over you to pass something to each other, accept it yourself and say “thank you.”
It's when they start passing shit like snacks. I have also been asked if I mind if they talk as they didn't expect anyone in middle. I have politely asked if either wants to switch but oh no.
That is what I mean, if they pass snacks, act like they are giving it to you, and just take it
lol
People who wear short shorts. Just gross. Nobody wants to see your legs and hello, you are sitting on fabric loaded with sweat and bacteria.
Always having smelly farters sitting somewhere. near me. Every. Single. Flight. I dramatically look around, turn the air nozzle towards the stench. It doesn’t work. Le sigh.
Deplaning. There’s them that have *no idea where their bag is!?* and look slowly from one overhead bin to the next while blocking the aisle.
Right?! Also the people who put their bags in bins wayyy before their seat and then rush to cut everyone off
People that aren’t Group 1 that board with Group 1. You aren’t special but you can be with a $50 upgrade on the app.
When people don’t deplane in a timely matter. Get up and get your stuff ready ahead of time. Especially if you are in the aisle seat. Who wants to spend extra time sitting on the plane.
I have a lot, too, but I think my biggest is people using my seatback/headrest as a way to get into/out of their seat! My other is people walking down the aisle with a duffle bag or backpack, oblivious that they are hitting everyone sitting in aisle seats with it!
People in boarding group 8 standing in front of the walk way when pre boarding starts.
People who wait IMMEDIATELY at the outlet of the baggage X-ray and start to reorganize themselves while the rest of the bags pile up behind them. Also, people that don’t stack their bins.
I stopped being nice about having to maneuver through dozens of people in boarding zone 362 standing in front of the gates while boarding zone 5. If you get bumped as I make a path for my wife and kid, it's your own fault.
TSA check should be like a game show about how fast you can do it, can’t stand watching people take forever it slowly kills me inside
I'd have to say people not checking their luggage, and attempting to bring everything on board. I have one briefcase, basically filled with stuff they don't want you to check ( laptop, tablet, medications, precious docs, etc.). If everyone actually bothered to check their damn luggage, and only brought on board that which needed to be brought on board, all the overhead bin issues would be gone overnight!
People not waiting to de plane. I understand if you have a tight connection, otherwise I wish folks would wait their turn!
19-1/2” shoulders and 17” wide seats
I fly a lot of RJ-900s and RJ-700s. So, I need to drop off and pick up my roller board on the jet bridge. People who don't follow the rules on how to line up on the jet bridge drive me nuts. There is an order! You get off the plane and wait in line along the left side of the jet bridge. You do not line up on the right side of the jet bridge where the luggage is set. Just as important, if you are in the back of the plane, you get in the back of the line. You don't go from Row 27 to first in line. This drives me absolutely crazy.
People that take off their shoes ….nobody wants to smell your god damn feet.
People who stand on the moving walkways and take up the entire belt instead of keeping to the right..and then refuse to let people pass!!!!! Happens to me all the time at DTW. Also, people who don’t move through TSA with purpose, even with pre-check. Irks my nerves.
Some low level credit card holder acting like a Karen who thinks they own the airline because they have the card.
The lack of carry-on etiquette. No your backpack does not go in the overhead bin next to your roller. If it’s too big to fit under your seat, then you need to check one of your pieces.
Lines
People who jab me in the ribs while seated next to me. As a result, my flanks have become the most sensitive part of my anatomy.
- crowding the boarding lanes - people who stand up as soon as the plane lands and grab their bag and then just stand in the aisle - people who push ahead from rows in the back to get off the plane faster (not trying to catch a connection) - people who clap when the plane lands - crowding the baggage claim carousel
As someone with a dog allergy, all the “service” animals that aren’t actually service animals. It amazes me how on international flights, suddenly the service animals aren’t valuable enough to go through the process of importing them to another country. Almost like… they were never medically necessary to begin with.