Annoying things that happen on a flight

Sky King

People who bitch about petty bull**** when they can get into an amazing machine for the price of a week's pay and fly through the air at 500MPH and arrive literally on another continent within a few hours for fk sake!

Maximus Alexander

Sky King wrote: »

People who bitch about petty bull**** when they can get into an amazing machine for the price of a week's pay and fly through the air at 500MPH and arrive literally on another continent within a few hours for fk sake!

Welcome to the 21st century. I hope your journey from the 1920s, when the above would have been in some way astonishing, was a comfortable one.

Thomas D

Snake Plisken wrote: »

Couple of things, I'm 6'4 and hate it when the person in front of me tries to recline their seats, I normally position my knees so that they can't push it back, hurts like hell on my knees but worth it.
Another thing is I usually fly Aer Lingus and pick my seat around row 7, but they then decide to load it from the back which is a pain what is also a pain some smart arse gimp in row z decides to put their hand luggage over your seat so not only do you have to wait to get on then there is no place to store your hand luggage except under the seat! I blame the stewards they shouldn't allow that to happen!

I hate people that do that. The seats are designed to recline. If I felt any pressure like that resisting I'd make sure to bull my through full incline at the expense of some knees. Sit up straight if you want some space for your knees.

Sky King

Maximus Alexander wrote: »

Welcome to the 21st century. I hope your journey from the 1920s, when the above would have been in some way astonishing, was a comfortable one.

Just because you're accustomed to it doesn't make it any less of an achievement.

Maximus Alexander

Sky King wrote: »

Just because you're accustomed to it doesn't make it any less of an achievement.

You could say the same about fire, but I'd still be annoyed if ash got in my eye.

Sky King

I wouldn't put the discovery of fire in the same category as the development of mass intercontinental jet travel, but yes, ash in the eye would be mildly irritating all right. I might even be compelled to go on an internet forum and discuss it with other similarly aggrieved persons.

Maximus Alexander

Sky King wrote: »

I wouldn't put the discovery of fire in the same category as the development of mass intercontinental jet travel

Of course you wouldn't, because you're accustomed to it. :P

Hold the Cheez Whiz

Ted_YNWA wrote: »

People who make a mad dash to the gate as soon as boarding is announced.

Plane won't take off any quicker, especially with assigned seats, your seat will be there & plane won't take off any quicker.

A lot of people rush to board because most airlines do a crap job of enforcing the carry-on rules. So you can pretty much guarantee that if you're on a full flight, the last 25% of people who board are going to have to scramble for bin space.

GreeBo

Snake Plisken wrote: »

Couple of things, I'm 6'4 and hate it when the person in front of me tries to recline their seats, I normally position my knees so that they can't push it back, hurts like hell on my knees but worth it.
Another thing is I usually fly Aer Lingus and pick my seat around row 7, but they then decide to load it from the back which is a pain what is also a pain some smart arse gimp in row z decides to put their hand luggage over your seat so not only do you have to wait to get on then there is no place to store your hand luggage except under the seat! I blame the stewards they shouldn't allow that to happen!

So to avoid your legs being uncomfortable you wedge your knees into an uncomfortable and painful position instead?

Okay.

jjbrien

This still happens on Ryanair when you board the plane people are still racing across the tarmac to get to their assigned seat pushing others out of the way like the seat wont be there when they get on the plane.

smurfjed

What do you think of this gadget???

http://www.gadgetduck.com/goods/kneedefender.html

ceadaoin.

Snake Plisken wrote: »

Couple of things, I'm 6'4 and hate it when the person in front of me tries to recline their seats, I normally position my knees so that they can't push it back, hurts like hell on my knees but worth it.
Another thing is I usually fly Aer Lingus and pick my seat around row 7, but they then decide to load it from the back which is a pain what is also a pain some smart arse gimp in row z decides to put their hand luggage over your seat so not only do you have to wait to get on then there is no place to store your hand luggage except under the seat! I blame the stewards they shouldn't allow that to happen!

If you need more space for your legs then you should pay for the extra legroom seats. If you were on a trans Atlantic flight it's a bit unreasonable to expect someone to not recline their seat for the whole journey and it's incredibly rude to jam your knees into the back of the seat in front of you!

If you normally fly aer lingus then you should join the gold circle frequent flyer program. You get priority boarding and usually get seated at the front of the plane anyway.

Hold the Cheez Whiz

ceadaoin. wrote: »

If you need more space for your legs then you should pay for the extra legroom seats. If you were on a trans Atlantic flight it's a bit unreasonable to expect someone to not recline their seat for the whole journey and it's incredibly rude to jam your knees into the back of the seat in front of you!

If you normally fly aer lingus then you should join the gold circle frequent flyer program. You get priority boarding and usually get seated at the front of the plane anyway.

Most airlines no longer offer extra legroom in coach (in the US at least), and a business-class ticket is exponentially more expensive.

Long-haul flights are one thing - pretty much the entire plane will tilt back to sleep after meals are served - but getting on to a two-hour flight and immediately winching your seat all of the way back is just plain annoying.

Wacker The Attacker

KeithM89 wrote: »

I was once on a flight where Celine Dion bursted into song.
So ....that.

Which begs the obvious question.

Why is she still alive?

GreeBo

Hold the Cheez Whiz wrote: »

Most airlines no longer offer extra legroom in coach (in the US at least), and a business-class ticket is exponentially more expensive.

Long-haul flights are one thing - pretty much the entire plane will tilt back to sleep after meals are served - but getting on to a two-hour flight and immediately winching your seat all of the way back is just plain annoying.

What's wrong with wanting to sleep at 6am exactly?

ceadaoin.

Hold the Cheez Whiz wrote: »

Most airlines no longer offer extra legroom in coach (in the US at least), and a business-class ticket is exponentially more expensive.

Long-haul flights are one thing - pretty much the entire plane will tilt back to sleep after meals are served - but getting on to a two-hour flight and immediately winching your seat all of the way back is just plain annoying.

If a seat is in an exit row it is going to have more legroom surely? Most airlines offer these seats at an extra charge, including in the US. Delta, US airways and Virgin America definitely do anyway.

I agree there is no need to recline your seat on a short flight. Usually the planes used on these routes though have no recline or not much.

jjbrien

Wacker The Attacker wrote: »

Which begs the obvious question.

Why is she still alive?

Canada will go broke when she passes away

Some people like her im not a fan

gctest50

smurfjed wrote: »

What do you think of this gadget???

http://www.gadgetduck.com/goods/kneedefender.html

Great fun, you just wait till the coffee n tea is served, then "try" to recline your seat a few times

Birroc

I think all people get a little bit assholey in airports and on flights. Admit it. Air travel has become a real drag in recent years.

Shaun Plays Games

Babies crying has to be the worst for me.

VG31

The worst for me are:

Kids kicking the back of your seat.
Babies crying for the whole flight.
Flight attendants chatting to passengers when you want to get past to go to the toilet. (This happened to me on an Aer Lingus flight before. I was standing there for about 10 minutes).
People delaying boarding by taking ages putting there bags in the overhead lockers.

SpaceTime

Anyone else get stomach problems during longer flights?

I always get really gassy stomach and often would be pretty sick by the time I get to where I'm going. I usually need to allow a day to recover from flights over 3 hours.

Lapin

Lapin wrote: »

The chap beside you in the suit making a point of reading his newspaper during the flight safety announcement because he wants you to think he flies so often he doesn't need to listen to it anymore.

Tosser.

Hold the Cheez Whiz wrote: »

You really think that people read through those announcements because they are trying to show off to the people around them? That seems like a weirdly insecure reaction, TBH.

Yes. Ask the cabin crew. These type of passengers are the ones who piss them off the most. Its not an 'insecure reaction' at all on my part. I feel safer on a plane than I do crossing the street. Even if its being tossed around the place through turbulence. I actually love that !

Arthur Beesley wrote: »

First time flyers hanging on every announcement from the flight attendants.

I've flown hundreds of times and always pay attention to the safety announcements as they vary from airline to airline and between different aircraft types with the same airline. Even with airlines using one aircraft type like Ryanair, simple little things like the location of life jackets can vary from one plane to another.

It doesn't cost anything other than two minutes of time to give it some attention, (not 'hang on every word'), just just to listen. Its only cop on and a bit of manners too.

Aidric wrote: »

All regular fliers feel like this.

As a regular flier myself, I disagree.

beks101

Thomas D wrote: »

The seats are designed to recline.

I think this is an excellent judge of character and tells me all I need to know about a person.

Have you had the experience of having someone recline their seat to within an inch of your face, while you're squashed into a decidedly tight space with limited capacity for movement or comfort for several hours, just because they can?

guppy

mikemac1 wrote: »

When the little brat sitting behind you is kicking your seat

It's worse when it's an adult who should know the repercussions of their actions. I speak condescingly to those people and call them sweetie, cos I assume they're "special" people.

suicide_circus

beks101 wrote: »

I think this is an excellent judge of character and tells me all I need to know about a person.

Have you had the experience of having someone recline their seat to within an inch of your face, while you're squashed into a decidedly tight space with limited capacity for movement or comfort for several hours, just because they can?

Agree. An excellent litmus test for a persons character. My arse is designed to fart but that doesn't mean I should do it in a lift.

Thomas D

beks101 wrote: »

I think this is an excellent judge of character and tells me all I need to know about a person.

Have you had the experience of having someone recline their seat to within an inch of your face, while you're squashed into a decidedly tight space with limited capacity for movement or comfort for several hours, just because they can?

You have the exact same amount of space if you recline, just at a different angle. It's stupidity to think they'd design economy class seats which could recline right into another persons body.

AulBiddy

When the seatbelt sign has been activated and two announcements have come on to tell passengers to remain seated and the toilets will be out of use momentarily, and suddenly every Tom Dick and Harry decide to stand up and fiddle with their bags and coats and ask the air hostesses to open the bathroom door because they need to use the toilet.

???!!!??!!!?!

EoghanIRL

Smokers . Strong smell of fags of someone for 9 hours . Especially when you despise smoking.

Secondly , fat people . Enough said . They should at least go first class for the sake of other people . I mean the people who take up more than one chair which when flying to and from America seems to be quite common .

5uspect

Thomas D wrote: »

I hate people that do that. The seats are designed to recline. If I felt any pressure like that resisting I'd make sure to bull my through full incline at the expense of some knees. Sit up straight if you want some space for your knees.

I appreciate that people are entitled to recline their seats, I just wish they would do it at a pace that I can react to. Some people just slap them back without warning.

Arbiter of Good Taste

Snake Plisken wrote: »

Couple of things, I'm 6'4 and hate it when the person in front of me tries to recline their seats, I normally position my knees so that they can't push it back, hurts like hell on my knees but worth it.
Another thing is I usually fly Aer Lingus and pick my seat around row 7, but they then decide to load it from the back which is a pain what is also a pain some smart arse gimp in row z decides to put their hand luggage over your seat so not only do you have to wait to get on then there is no place to store your hand luggage except under the seat! I blame the stewards they shouldn't allow that to happen!

So you act like a d1ck because someone does something that they are perfectly entitled to do? Classy

If it's such a problem for you, get to the airport early and get them to change your seat to an exit row. Aer Lingus are generally pretty good about doing that.

eddhorse

Arbiter of Good Taste wrote: »

So you act like a d1ck because someone does something that they are perfectly entitled to do? Classy

If it's such a problem for you, get to the airport early and get them to change your seat to an exit row. Aer Lingus are generally pretty good about doing that.

I'm 6ft 2" and I agree that all reclining should be stopped. It's cramped enough without the chair in front crunching your legs.

I was also on a flight from San Francisco to Dublin a few weeks ago. A woman put a car seat in the seat beside me with her 2 year old in it wailing all the way to Dublin.

And also I don't like when there are snakes on the plane....

Reiketsu

SpaceTime wrote: »

Anyone else get stomach problems during longer flights?

I always get really gassy stomach and often would be pretty sick by the time I get to where I'm going. I usually need to allow a day to recover from flights over 3 hours.

I get pretty nauseous during take off for some reason but once I'm up in the air I'm grand.

Reiketsu

SpaceTime wrote: »

Anyone else get stomach problems during longer flights?

I always get really gassy stomach and often would be pretty sick by the time I get to where I'm going. I usually need to allow a day to recover from flights over 3 hours.

I get pretty nauseous during take off for some reason but once I'm up in the air I'm grand.

Waking up to this wouldn't be ideal.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SN0U8_mIVwc

Larry Wildman

There is such a thing as "reclining etiquette". The "I'll do it because I can" people are the type of degenerate that O'Leary and Ryanair sadly emancipated with low fares for all. Simple things like manners that differentiate decent people from the apes that we're all seen on flights.

dellas1979

When the person beside you is a dickhead.

Had a 3 flight journey last year. I knew at check in something wasnt right down there. I was unable to tell if I needed to pee or not and in pain. So, asked them if I could have an aisle seat on each leg of the journey.

Flight 1: No probs - had an aisle seat. Up and down like a yoyo. But coped with that.

Stop over in next airport for 7 hours, where down below was getting worse.

Flight 2: Exhausted and in pain, turns out, Id the middle seat. So, I very nicely said to the girl (of about the same ages as me) "I know you've the aisle seat, and no probs, I did ask at check in, but Ive a little problem which requires me to loo hop the whole (7 hour) flight." She blankly says "no". Grand nothing I can do. About 10mins into the flight, I need a tinkel, badly. I turn and politely ask "hey-ive to go to the loo-need to get up". She ignores me. I try again. She ignores me. So, I ever so slightly touch her arm to alert her to the fact am about to explode. She starts screaming at me. She screams at me "why are you touching meeeeeeee"..."I heard you the first time!!!!" To which I reply, "Well, why didnt you f'ing move then!!". She eventually moves her lard ass. Coming back from the loo, she huffs and puffs that shes to move again.

About 20 mins later, while she is watching a film horsing jellies and pringles in to her, it happens again (remember I aint got no control over this at this stage). Again, "I need to go please". She refuses to move. So, in language I would rarely use, I said "There are a few options here. Either you move. Or I will piss in this seat. Or I will have to climb over you". They are your options. She wasnt long moving.

Everytime after that then, she moved. The fact if she'd just been a helpful human being and let me have the aisle seat would have solved everything.

Lapin

Larry Wildman wrote: »

There is such a thing as "reclining etiquette". The "I'll do it because I can" people are the type of degenerate that O'Leary and Ryanair sadly emancipated with low fares for all. Simple things like manners that differentiate decent people from the apes that we're all seen on flights.

Ryanair seats don't recline and they have more legroom on average than most other airlines.

O'Leary is a national hero and I want to see the spike in Dublin's O'Connell demolished and replaced with a 189 metre tall statue to him.

Lapin

cisk wrote: »

Waking up to this wouldn't be ideal.

Allah would have to repair his broken jaw if that prick woke me up and did that next to me.

doolox

Passengers should not have the option to steal someone elses seat space for their own selfish ends and this is nicely avoided by Ryanairs non reclining seats.

Also kids who kick or shake your seat should be dealt with very severely.

Larry Wildman

dellas1979 wrote: »

When the person beside you is a dickhead.

Had a 3 flight journey last year. I knew at check in something wasnt right down there. I was unable to tell if I needed to pee or not and in pain. So, asked them if I could have an aisle seat on each leg of the journey.

Flight 1: No probs - had an aisle seat. Up and down like a yoyo. But coped with that.

Stop over in next airport for 7 hours, where down below was getting worse.

Flight 2: Exhausted and in pain, turns out, Id the middle seat. So, I very nicely said to the girl (of about the same ages as me) "I know you've the aisle seat, and no probs, I did ask at check in, but Ive a little problem which requires me to loo hop the whole (7 hour) flight." She blankly says "no". Grand nothing I can do. About 10mins into the flight, I need a tinkel, badly. I turn and politely ask "hey-ive to go to the loo-need to get up". She ignores me. I try again. She ignores me. So, I ever so slightly touch her arm to alert her to the fact am about to explode. She starts screaming at me. She screams at me "why are you touching meeeeeeee"..."I heard you the first time!!!!" To which I reply, "Well, why didnt you f'ing move then!!". She eventually moves her lard ass. Coming back from the loo, she huffs and puffs that shes to move again.

About 20 mins later, while she is watching a film horsing jellies and pringles in to her, it happens again (remember I aint got no control over this at this stage). Again, "I need to go please". She refuses to move. So, in language I would rarely use, I said "There are a few options here. Either you move. Or I will piss in this seat. Or I will have to climb over you". They are your options. She wasnt long moving.

Everytime after that then, she moved. The fact if she'd just been a helpful human being and let me have the aisle seat would have solved everything.

Her behaviour was appalling.

However, I wouldn't swap my aisle seat for one in the middle...I'm organised and book and pay for aisle seats / exit rows way in advance. In your scenario, I'd be happy to let you out as many times as you need but I wouldn't give you my seat.

Eutow

Larry Wildman wrote: »

Her behaviour was appalling.

However, I wouldn't swap my aisle seat for one in the middle...I'm organised and book and pay for aisle seats / exit rows way in advance. In your scenario, I'd be happy to let you out as many times as you need but I wouldn't give you my seat.

In this case why wouldn't you make an exception? It would make life easier for both of you. How was the person you quoted supposed to know they would be experiencing bladder problems the day they took their flight?

dellas1979

Larry Wildman wrote: »

Her behaviour was appalling.

However, I wouldn't swap my aisle seat for one in the middle...I'm organised and book and pay for aisle seats / exit rows way in advance. In your scenario, I'd be happy to let you out as many times as you need but I wouldn't give you my seat.

It sure was! I'd the whole plane/air hostesses looking at me like I was after seriously abusing her. Some people even stood up and see what was going on and air hostess ran to see what had happened *err Ive to pee-I cant get out*

I understand it wasnt essentially her problem to deal with, nor did she have to give me her seat to HELP me, but at that stage I was so withered by pain and her lack of compassion and understanding, to a fellow human being, I was ready to go full force on that seat.

Thomas D

You shouldn't have flown if you had such a medical problem.

Larry Wildman

Eutow wrote: »

In this case why wouldn't you make an exception? It would make life easier for both of you. How was the person you quoted supposed to know they would be experiencing bladder problems the day they took their flight?

Because having to let the person out reasonably regularly wouldn't bother me.

dellas1979

Thomas D wrote: »

You shouldn't have flown if you had such a medical problem.

Oh yes, I would have flown. I was fit to fly. With the exception I need a loo. I wasnt stewen across seats screaming in agony or having a puke fest. Was quite happily sitting there until Id to go. And then the fun started.

Flight 3: I sat beside a lovely Irish man, who was as bad as me. Because he had diabetes, he had to go frequently. Should he not fly too because he has to go to the loo more frequently?

Larry Wildman

dellas1979 wrote: »

Oh yes, I would have flown. I was fit to fly. With the exception I need a loo.

Flight 3: I sat beside a lovely Irish man, who was as bad as me. Because he had diabetes, he had to go frequently. Should he not fly too because he has to go to the loo more frequently?

He should book aisle seats to be fair.

dellas1979

Larry Wildman wrote: »

He should book aisle seats to be fair.

He did.
If I had magically known in advance that Id have needed a loo as frequently as someone with chronic diabetes, Id have done the same!

groucho marx

People that push the head rest right back and their manky greasy hair is uncomfortably close and the tiny space you had has now become unbearable.

Stojkovic

All the above, basically people who think THEY are the only person on the flight.

Generally I get on the plane (window seat), pull a hoody over my head and go asleep. Whether its a 1 hour flight or an 11 hour flight.

I dont annoy anyone and no-one annoys me.