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Air travel can bring out the worst in people. And if you’ve been a longtime reader of ours, you’ve likely come across the multitude of stories we’ve had involving passengers making fools of themselves.
This list is no different. Here, we have several stories from people sharing the entitled behavior they’ve witnessed on airplanes. These firsthand accounts may either infuriate you or prompt you to question the actions of your fellow humans and their apparent disregard for others.
All the negativity aside, let these anecdotes serve as a harsh reminder of how to behave as a traveler.
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#1
On a very crowded flight from San Francisco to Hawaii I noticed a family with two kids under 3. They don’t let you sit with kids that age for some sort of safety rule. So Dad was sitting in one row with a baby and Mom was in a different row with an 18 month old kid who was raising hell and didn’t want to sit or be quiet.
This was the second leg of their trip. They had already been on a plane from NY to San Francisco. Mom got up with 18 month old and was walking back to the bathroom with him stiffening up like a board so he was hard to hold. I was sitting reading in my isle seat with my 15 year old son next to me. She looked at my son and said “I’ll pay you $20 if you will hold him for 10 minutes!”. My son reached out and took him and she went off to the bathroom.
When she came back my son said not to worry and the kid could just stay with him. The 18 month old seemed perfectly happy with my son and he kept him for an hour until we had to prepare for landing. She tried to pay him but he said don’t worry about it. When we got off the plane that family was waiting for us. Families with babies get to get off first. They had a huge white lei for my son! He was happy. They were happy. Everybody was happy!
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#2
Don’t we all love it when Karma kicks in.
I love flying and always try for a window seat to watch the view outside while taking off and landing.
One day I walked to my aisle to see two ladies dressed impeccably in my seat and the middle seat leaving only the aisle seat vacant. I politely advised that they were in the wrong seats and was told “I meant to ask for a window seat”! Clearly with no intention to move.
A flight attendant asked was everything OK, to be told by the window lady that she wanted the window and was not moving. To ease the situation I told the Flight Attendant that I will simply take the aisle seat. She was very grateful.
I sat down, their scent was wonderful but across the aisle drifted the scent of a very dirty and smelly young man in his 20’s. He smelt like he had not had a shower for a week. I thought what a trip this will be !!!!
Then the young man leaned out and waved to his mate about 6 ailses forward. I still remember his name and it is at least 10 years ago..”HEY JACKO”…was the call to is mate.”
I had a rare brainwave, I asked the same flight attendant if I could swap with this gentlemans friend so they could fly together be it across an aisle. She had clearly smelt them both and said to me with a smile “That will not be a problem”. As I swapped seats with Jacko, I noticed he was at least as smelly. as I left my seat I turned to the ladies and simply said “enjoy your flight”!!!
I told the lady next to the seat where I moved about it and and I seriously thought she was going to wet herself because she laughed so hard having already experienced Jacko for just a few minutes.
#3
I was on a flight from San Francisco to New York, in a window seat, and a man in a business suit sat down in the aisle seat and then put his 3 year old son in the middle seat. As soon as we took off and we’re allowed to put our tray tables down, the man took out his laptop and told the little boy to keep quiet and not bother him or me. I said it was okay if he talked to me. The poor child had no games or toys to distract him not even any snack. It was before smart phones and before we could select individual movies. What was he supposed to do on a 4 hour flight? I played games with him, talking very softly to avoid annoying mean Dad. The man didn’t tell me to stop, so I had fun with the little guy until we deplaned. I shared a snack I’d brought with him, and I drew pictures for him on my legal pad (I was on a business trip). His father never said another word to his son. Nor did he thank me, but the sweet little boy did and gave me a hug. Some people don’t deserve children!
#4
I was settled into my aisle seat in First, and a woman tapped me on the shoulder and asked if I would swap seats with her, so she could sit beside her husband who was in the window seat beside me.
I asked what seat she was in.
“22E”. Yeah.. middle seat in the back of the plane. In exchange for my first class seat.
I immediately burst out laughing, and when I composed myself I suggested that perhaps the person beside her in 22F or D would be happy to swap with her husband and come up to first class, then they could sit with each other in row 22.
“But I want to sit in first!”. Yeah honey, so do I. But unlike you, I actually have a ticket for it.
#5
On an Emirates flight from Dubai, I was next to a couple and as the meal service started the guy asked me if I would “take the vegetarian option please”. A little put out, I asked why and was told that “it offends my wife and I if we watch someone else eat meat or fish”. “What about those across the aisle and on the row in front?” I asked, “We are only asking you as it is very much in our face”…… I had the beef, took my time and they went for a walk.
#6
It was a very large person who bought a ticket in economy and took up half of my seat, expecting me to accept that I paid for a whole seat and had to squish into half a seat.
It was a short flight, so I just dealt and kept my mouth shut. But I decided that in the future I will talk with the flight attendant and insist that I get the entire seat I paid for. I do not wish to be cruel to the larger person, but the larger person’s decision to buy one seat or not to buy a 1st class ticket and take 1.5 seats was her choice to begin with. This has nothing to do with fat-shaming. It has to do with my being comfortable in a very expensive seat that I paid to enjoy.
Nannychachi 2 weeks ago (edited)
If you're too fat for one seat, you should have to buy two. That's not fat-shaming. That's just stating the obvious. You don't have the right to make someone else uncomfortable.
#7
I was comfortably settled in my window seat, book in hand, anticipating the rest and relaxation my well-deserved vacation would bring. As my seat mate approached, I was struck by the six-inch rhinestone cross that hung from her neck. She began piling books atop the tray table, one of which was entitled, How to Convert Atheists.
Within a matter of minutes, the dreaded question was propounded. “Have you heard the good news?” I enthusiastically answered, “I have! The Supreme Court has ruled that same-sex marriage is legal in all fifty states. The Catholic Church is losing members faster than you can say pedophile priests and televangelists are being exposed for their fraudulent practices and extramarital affairs.” Before she could respond, I pointed to her book, looked her directly in the eye, and stated unambiguously, “Don’t even think about it.”
I returned to my book and suddenly heard, “I will pray for you.” To which I responded, “Knock yourself out, dear, just do it silently.”
#8
On a flight within Asia (where one often gets better customer service than in the West) a woman asked the flight attendant to care for her toddler because he was fussy and she needed to get some sleep. The flight attendant was, not surprisingly, temporarily at a loss for words then responded “I’m responsible for the safety and wellbeing of everyone on board, not a babysitter.” The passenger pouted and whined “What can I do then?” A fellow passenger replied that she needed to step up as a parent or travel with a nanny. The flight attendant smiled her thanks.
Lila Allen 2 weeks ago
Some people just do not get it. Customer service rep is not there to be your personal assistant. Full Stop.
#9
Last year, I was on a flight from New York to Europe, somewhere about half way over the Atlantic, a passenger came from Economy Class and sat down behind me. I was falling asleep, and I had my seat reclined. He taps me on the shoulder and then I see his head pop up, he tells me “Don’t say anything.”
There were lots of empty seats behind me, I really just wanted to sleep. So I did not answer him and just shut my eyes. I think an hour passed, and I heard commotion behind me. This man had asked for a blanket, and had several drinks. Apparently, he still was not noticed, it was only after he began complaining about bad service that they figured out he did not even belong in the seat.
He was trying to pull a fast one now, and stated his seat had been taken by me. Well, the cabin crew never even asked me, as they knew he was out of place. He refused to leave and fastened his seat belt. Backup came and they gave him two options either he comply of they would remove him by force and might get him arrested when we landed. The idea of being arrested did not change much for him.
He started yelling, and at this point we all had enough of it. Two other passengers began telling him to go back to economy as he would just end up with all kinds of issues if he did not. He now asked for another drink to “Think about it.” A burly, staff member came and then another. They gave him one last chance to get up and go back. He still did not move an inch. He began telling them, there were so many seats empty, and that he should be given one.
It seems the airline did not want to appear to be brutal in front of all of us. They gave in, and gave the man a drink and backed down. This really seemed to make a lot of people angry in the cabin. As Breakfast was served, an older man would comment to a Flight Attendant that he would do the same thing and never pay extra for Cabin Upgrades if the Airline just allowed people to sit down and make a claim.
The Flight Attendant laughed, and said “No you would not do any such thing, just wait for an hour and see.” Well, I realized that seat grabber’s bravado, was going to get him into a situation on arrival. He was laughing the whole time, and enjoying his larger seat, and was ordering drink after drink. It seems they knew quite well, that his problems were only getting worse. As now he was a drunken passenger as well. When we landed, he was the first person to disembark with escorts, It seems he had a welcoming committee waiting for him. For a couple of hours of getting his way, he lost far more than he gained.
#10
Not initially my reaction - but what the person did …
So I was on a plane and the guy seated next to me was in a very nice suit- right away ai am suspicious (even the CEO of my company - always in a nice suit- wears “travel clothes”).
So when the flight attendant was serving drinks, he requested more hot water in his tea- as she is pouring, he moves the cup and his hand- he got literally at most 2 tablespoons of water on his hand before she reacted and stopped pouring..
Immediately he screams out “You poured hot water on my hand and I am in pain!”
Not rehearsed, right???
My immediate thought “Oh, a scammer trying to get money from the airline.”
She immediately apologized and offered him medical attention.
“No - none of you are qualified!”
She assured him that every flight attendant must be fully trained in emergency medical care, first aid, etc.
“No! I will only accept the care of a medical doctor! No one else is allowed to touch me! And I demand you have one here taking care of my hand the moment we land!!”
The hand - the one with no blisters or even a red spot - that hand.
So she goes to arrange all of this - he looks at me and says “Give me your name - I want you as a witness.”
I said ,”Well - ok - But you know that I will testify truthfully that you refused all medical care offered.”
He immediately lost all interest in talking with me….
#11
I had a passenger offer me a drink from his flask. I was the pilot on a charter flight - just he and I. Come on - no one will know - just a sip - he kept at it, so after a while, I asked him if he could do me a favor. I wasn’t sure about the oil pressure in the number two engine (he sat right behind the engine gauges,) so if he noticed it dipping, could he give me a heads up? It worked like a charm - not a peep out of him the rest of the flight - a little cruel having him stare at a perfectly good engine gauge for the whole flight, but it left me alone to fly the airplane without having to focus on new ways to say no - and yes - technically I should have removed the flask from him - but with only he and I onboard the aircraft, I thought that would lead to more distraction.
#12
I was on a flight to Las Vegas from the UK, I think it was flying from Gatwick at the time, travelling alone. Got on the plane, sat down, said hi to the other people in the row. I was in the centre set, aisle seat. I have broad shoulders, so tend to go for aisle or window so I don’t give everyone an uncomfortable flight.
I digress. Anyway, a group of Northern Irish ‘ladies’ got on the flight, found their seats - which were not together - and almost immediately one of them seated in the row just behind me got up and started asking everyone around her if they were travelling alone. I had pre-booked my seat, and ordered a vegetarian meal option. When she got to me, my row-mates, complete strangers, saw the expression of murder on my face at this woman’s approach, and told her that we were all flying together so couldn’t move. Basically, her entire hen party had booked a flight… then not sorted their seating out and were all over the cabin. No big deal, and frankly I couldn’t care any less about it.
But she went on, and on, and on. Eventually her party were all together around her (she wasn’t even the damn bride), and this woman then sealed her status as a genuine arse-breather. You know the type of person - they must be breathing with their arse because they somehow talk without pause. For hours.
She even told a story about how she herself had refused to move to accommodate a woman that wanted to sit next to her own young child on a flight, because it wasn’t her fault the woman hadn’t checked them in on adjacent seats… She recounted this with zero sense of irony. Her sense of entitlement was absolutely staggering.
At some point another passenger complained about the racket, and a stewardess had a word - this only made her worse as she then started asking everyone around her if they had a problem with her.
She even started claiming she spoke so loud because she was hard of hearing. Absolute bullshit.
Bear in mind I have quite a deep voice, it’s not the easiest thing to hear on a plane. She got round to asking me, “Excuse me, I was just wondering if you think I’ve been noisy on this flight, I think someone complained about me.”
I replied, in my usual voice - and believe me, she heard every word - “I’ve been watching a movie with the sound turned up, and I’m wearing noise-cancelling headphones, and I have heard every word you have said during this entire flight.”
Amazingly, she then piped down for the last few hours of the flight and looked suitably embarrassed. Yay me.
#13
I was waiting to board a domestic flight when a woman began playing music loudly on her phone. She was not asked to turn it off, turn it down, or plug in her earbuds, at least not by an airport employee. If anyone complained, she ignored it. It was music I often enjoy, but not at that volume in these circumstances. I was tired, hungry, and barely there on time having rushed from a previous flight.
She did not reduce the volume after boarding the flight. I put on my ear plugs, but they barely made a difference. I’m not sure full-on noise cancelling headphones would have been enough. Then other people started playing music and podcasts and other noisemakers for everyone to hear. She destroyed the civility of the entire flight. The din was outrageous.
I got off the flight with a migraine and a level of internal fury that I have rarely, if ever, otherwise experienced in this life.
#14
I was on a flight from Melbourne to Bangkok and sitting next to a 50 something, married couple in the middle seats. The wife and I passed a few pleasantries, while her husband proceeded to get wasted on the free alcohol. About 2 hours into the flight, the husband starts yelling at his wife, decides to give her a backhander and because he was wearing a ring, her cuts her face and blood starts trickling down her chin and onto her clothes. All the time this is happening, he is still screaming at her.
One of the flight crew and several fellow passengers ask him to quieten down but that has little effect. Then all of a sudden she clutches her chest and says she can't breathe. The husband says, matter of factly, that she probably having a heart attack and yells “die you f---ing b**ch, die".
She manages to tell me that she has some tablets in one of the bags at her feet, at which point I ask the husband where they would be, but he's still busy yelling insults at her and refuses to help. By this time her lips have turned blue and I'm frantically rummaging through her handbag for the tablets. Finally, I find the right one, put it under her tongue and slowly her breathing returns to normal. Unbelievably, her husband is still abusing her in between trying to find one of the flight crew to order another drink.
Then two male attendants show up, handcuff him and escort him up to first class and things quieten down. After thanking me profusely, the wife falls asleep and the rest of the flight passes uneventfully. When the plane finally lands, two security guards board the plane and he is escorted into a room in customs. I suggested to the wife that she would be welcome to come with me and we could share a room, at a nearby hotel, while she sorted out what she wanted to do. She politely declined my offer and one of the saddest things I've seen, is her with a overflowing luggage trolley, patiently waiting for her husband to be released by security and allowed into Thailand.
The only upside being that one of the flight attendants gave me 2 bottles of red wine, when I was disembarking, as a thankyou for my efforts! I've often thought about her and wondered if she ever developed the courage to leave him.
DaisyBee 2 weeks ago
AS IF he wasn’t immediately dealt with as soon as he slapped his wife. The flight crew just asked him to quieten down after he assaulted his wife? No way in hell that happened. Either the flight crew or another passenger surely would have stepped in long before she had chest pains afterwards
#15
About ten years ago I boarded a full flight at the Istanbul Airport in Turkey heading back to the U.S. When I approached my assigned seat, I found a muslim woman seated in the window seat with a baby in an infant carrier placed in the aisle seat which was assigned to me. I explained to the woman that I was assigned to the seat occupied by her infant. In poor english, she explained that the infant was mistakenly assigned a seat several rows away and begged that I switch seats.
Of course I accommodated her request and all was well until another traveler approached and informed me that I was occupying their seat. I vacated the seat and again approached the muslim woman. This time she tried to explain that I must have gone to the wrong seat and pointed me towards another seat. At this point I asked to see the seat assignment ticket. She acted like she wasn’t understanding the language when a flight attendant approached to find out why I was blocking the aisle during boarding. I explained the situation to the attendant. The attendant confronted the woman and informed her that she had not purchased a seat for the infant and needed to hold the child on her lap during the flight.
The woman went into a rage loudly demanding that the airline provide a seat for her infant. She yelled about being denied a seat in first class where there were likely empty seats. She complained loudly about being discriminated against because she was muslim which made no sense because we were flying Turkish Airlines.
The flight attendant left and returned quickly with another airline attendant (probably a supervisor). The supervisor informed the woman that she either removed the child from my seat or they would both be removed from the flight.
The woman rose from her seat, brought the baby to a male traveler seated several rows away (likely her husband), dumped the child in his lap, argued with the man for a minute, stored the infant carrier in an overhead bin, and returned to her seat.
Needless to say, we didn’t talk much during the long flight.
woodswhispers 2 weeks ago
Gosh I'm tired, I skipped a section and thought it said she stored the *infant* in an overhead bin 😅
#16
Was on an Emirates flight from Jeddah to Dubai, and had checked in online, nice and early, to get an aisle seat near the front of the economy section. When I boarded, I got to my seat to find a gentleman in the window seat, a lady next to him, and then my seat.
Within ten seconds of my bum touching my seat, the flight attendant asked if I would swap with a guy who had a middle seat of the central seating section, some rows behind. I said no on the basis I don’t like middle seats and had made the effort to check in early to secure a good seat. The gentleman concerned was now standing nearby and pointing at me whilst speaking Arabic to the flight attendant. She explained he couldn't have my seat. After some louder proclamations, it was told to me that the gentleman was the middle passengers father, and didn’t want her next to me, an unknown man (window guy was her husband).
I again refused to move, and at this stage others around had become aware of the situation and were giving nods and winks of support.
Now the “You’ve gotta be kidding me” moment. The older guy suddenly lunged over me and sat half on me, and half on his daughter, and then started to try and push me off my seat. Needless to say, he didn’t succeed.
EDIT: Lots of comments and questions regarding the husband. It just wasn’t an issue for him - he refused to give up the window seat. The person with the issue was the father.
As far as I saw it, he simply hadn’t bothered checking in online, and there was no way I was giving up a decent seat to satisfy his outdated moral code.
#17
We were flying Seattle to Heathrow on British Airways. We boarded the plane, and the seats assigned to us were wet. The flight attendant called the ground crew and quickly changed the seat covers~unfortunately the backs of the seats were wet as well, but that was fine with us.
At this time the third person assigned to the row boarded, an older woman wearing a sweatshirt with a Christmas tree on it. (This was in May). She loudly announced she was not going to sit in a row with wet seats (hers was dry) and demanded an upgrade. The flights manager got on the phone and found there were no business seats available. There was a discussion with flight ops that procedure must be followed and they could not place a passenger into First Class, only Business Class, that this was not the protocol.
To our surprise instead of moving the complaining older lady the flights manager took us into the First Class cabin leaving the complaining passenger in the economy class in her dry seat next to the two wet ones. Not only did we have a marvellous flight and great conversation with the flight attendants, one took a duty free bag and gave us a bottle of champagne to take off the plane, hoping that our London trip would go well after such a rocky start. We were very grateful not to have to sit next to the lady on the flight, and so surprised at such great service.
#18
This happened years ago, before I had kids. I was on a flight, sitting in the window seat, minding my own business as people boarded. A young woman with a child sat in the middle seat next to me. I figured the child had the aisle seat, but no, someone else had that seat. Now the rules then were that a child could be a free lap-rider up until the age of 2 years, then were required to purchase a seat. This was the biggest 2 year old I have ever seen or the mother was pulling one over on the airline. Now they require a birth certificate if there is any doubt the age of the child.
Everything was fine until the plane took off. At that point the child decided they needed to see out the window and walked onto my lap to see the view. Mother didn’t even flinch. Just kept encouraging the child to see the view. She then slipped on headphones and buried her nose in a magazine.
Over the next two hours the child stomped all over me, demanded my attention, and prevented me from eating or drinking anything. The flight attendants repeatedly asked the mother to keep her child on her lap, and she would for as long as it took for the FA to walk away. The flight attendants kept mouthing ‘sorry’ to me the whole flight.
I decided to suck it up for the child and since it was a short flight to just deal with it. As I stood to disembark the plane, after the mother and child had already left, all of the flight attendants hugged me, shoved extra snacks into my hands and thanked me over and over. I ended up leaving with a big smile on my face. People like that mother are the reason the rest of us have to deal with so many rules and regulations.
Smeghead Tribble Down Under 2 weeks ago
If that were me the little feral would gone sailing out the emergency exit.
#19
A woman got on a plane in New York headed to Los Angeles. The plane was continuing on to Seattle, but she was only going to Los Angeles. After the plane got to 35,000 feet and the pilot turned off the seat belt sign, she got up, gathered up her things and moved up to 1st class. One of the flight attendants approached her and pointed out that she had an Economy ticket and needed to move back to her assigned seat.
She replied: “I’m blonde. I’m Beautiful. I deserve 1st class.” No amount of explanation could convince her to move She went back to the galley and told the lead flight attendant, who went to speak with the woman. She got the same response: “I’m blonde, and I’m beautiful. I deserve 1st class.”
The 1st officer happened to be passing the galley and heard the flight attendants discussing this woman. He said, “I’ll take care of it”.
He went to the woman and whispered something in her ear. She looked at him and asked, “Really”? and he replied, “Yes, Ma’am”.
She got up, gathered things and returned to her seat in economy.
The flight attendants asked the 1st officer, “ What did you say to her?”
He replied,” I told her that 1st class did not stop in LA.”
#20
The woman sitting next to me had a peanut allergy. She demanded that the entire flight be declared peanut free. The flight attendants informed her that 6 rows in front of her and 6 rows behind her would be peanut free. That wasn't satisfactory to her. She didn't merely make a scene… her tantrum was an epic! She was informed that they were not even offering peanuts for a snack. She wanted all passengers searched for contraband peanuts.
They continually quoted their airline's policy, but she insisted that other airlines catered to her needs. Now, i was on a tight schedule once we touched ground in Boston, and we've now been sitting at the terminal for over an hour because of her tantrum. I excused myself out of my seat. Opend the overhead bin .grabbed my bag and begged them to let me off of the plane. I arrived in Boston 45 minutes before my original flight. Hard to imagine that one person can s***w up so many people's day because of their personal needs. What a Nut job! 😉
#21
True story.
I was flying from London to Minnesota. It was a long flight and I was stuck in a middle seat. I was on my ipad, working on some math problem I can’t even remember. Also, I couldn't sleep. Two hours in the air, this girl sitting next to me on my left, strikes a Conversation. After a quick chit chat, she leaned in for a kiss and I leaned backwards. "I have a girlfriend," I sighed. After an awkward pause, she went back to pretending to watch a movie without saying a word. Two minutes later, she asked me to switch seats with her and I did. Fast forward another hour and that same girl was kissing the passenger on the window seat. By the way, this passenger in the window seat was also a woman.
What? Yes.
After a brief ”You’ve gotta be kidding me” moment, I went back to doing the math problem I can't even remember.
#22
Flight from Canada to the UK, guy sat down next to me and I gagged.
So what? I hear you cry. Well I’m a plumber’s son. I’ve worked farming and domestic spillages and ruptured pipes, I have literally worked knee deep in human poop to get a job done and the smell of this guy made me gag.
So I went and asked the harried looking attendant if I could switch seats and she just spat out “full flight” “no seats” and shooed me away.
So I went back to my seat but I couldn’t do it. I couldn’t sit next to this guy who smelled like a homeless guy who had shat himself to death in the Florida sun three days ago.
So I went to try the attendants again and, again, I got the brush off.
Back I went to my seat and I had a little think. And I started pushing my call bell. A LOT.
Grumpy attendant came to see me to shut me up.
Grumpy attendant leaned in close to tell me off.
Grumpy attendant took a big deep breath in so she could give me a proper scolding.
Grumpy attendant nearly puked in my lap.
Shortly there after my happy arse was a looooong way away from where I had been and now-apologetic attendant fed me business class food and wine to say sorry.
In all of my long decades on this silly little flying marble we call home that man was, by far, the worst thing I’ve ever smelled.
Brian Droste 2 weeks ago
The airlines need to come up with some type of smell o meter. You go through it like a metal detector. If it goes off, you are not allowed on the flight.
#23
This was on an Icelandair flight that was headed from Reykjavik, Iceland, to Kennedy Airport in New York City.
This 46-year-old man in the picture had so much to drink to the point where he had alcohol poisoning.
A while after having a couple of drinks, he started spitting on the other passengers.
He also grabbed women, choked other passengers, screamed that the plane was going to crash.
He became aggressive and started to hurt other passengers.
One of the passengers on board had some duct tape in his carry-on bag — so they taped his mouth shut, and taped his body to the airplane seat for everyone’s safety.
After the plane landed, he was taken by police in an ambulance to get treated for his alcohol poisoning.
The federal authorities decided not to prosecute the drunk man.
#24
I had a flight from Delhi to Frankfurt, and there was a lady with a kid. The kid must be a year old and as the flight took off the kid started to cry probably because of air pressure. She did nothing to make her baby stop crying , just kept sitting !!
We were just waiting for her to pick the baby up so that he stops crying, after 20 mins of him crying, she picked the baby up and figured out that he is crying because he had peed. She took off his clothes and his underwear which had become wet, instead of keeping it inside, she put the wet underwear near the vent on top of her head which was half on my side !!
And I was sitting just behind her , The wet underwear right under the vent above my head drying !!! I was like , what is she even upto ??? I got up from my seat and asked her to stop doing what she is doing and she said, just one more min , let it dry so she can make the baby wear it again.
#25
Coming back from a trip to Thailand, my wife and I went to our assigned seats only to see a young couple sitting there. We showed them our tickets and told them they must have made a mistake. They wouldn’t leave, telling us “The Lady” said they could sit there. I didn’t even bother with getting angry, just called a flight attendant over and showed her our tickets, explaining the situation. The flight attendant told the young couple they had to move, that they couldn’t just sit in seats that someone else paid for. They just kept repeating “The Lady” told them they could sit there. Flight attendant asks them what lady and to please show her their tickets so she could show them to their actual seats. The young couple couldn’t supply either. Amused, I just started putting our carry-ons into the upper bin. The young woman had the nerve to look at me incredulously like, “How could he just start putting his bags away over our seats?” I don’t know what happened to them after that. I just shook my head as they were being led away.
#26
I am African-American, and was flying from Dallas, TX to Los Angeles, with my daughter who was 11 months old at the time back in 1968, to spend Christmas with my parents. My daughter was a beautiful baby with very long eyelashes; (she is still a beautiful grown lady with long eyelashes).
During the flight as she was sleeping in my arms, one of the white female flight attendants complimented and commented on how pretty she was and how long her lashes were. I smiled at her and said thank you. She then asked me if my baby's eyelashes were real! I looked at her in disbelief and shock...while proclaiming that they were indeed natural...and what mother in her right mind would glue false eyelashes on her baby! To my utmost surprise, she then proceeded to reach down, grabbing my baby's eyelashes to see if they would come off!
Before I could stop myself... I felt this rage and anger...and I cold-cocked her with a right hook as hard as I could, knocking her across the aisle way! Of course that woke my baby up who started crying...probably because I was very verbal in my protest!
If that had happened today...I probably would've been arrested for a*****t! I am so glad my husband was flying to LA later that week and not on that flight with us!
The white man sitting next to me who saw the whole thing, immediately called out for an attendant while pushing the overhead button for assistance! He was very indignant as well. As it turned out, the supervising (male) attendant was very, very, very apologetic...and suspended her services for the rest of the flight, by having her sit in the back where the attendants secure themselves during take -offs and landings. I was seated toward the front of the passenger section, and couldn't and didn't want to see her, so I don't know what happened to her after that. The flight landed...and I was glad to get off!
The airlines did give me a voucher to reimburse me for the money we spent on my ticket to LA; and they comped our return tickets back home to Dallas. The white man sitting next to me was very nice and soooooo embarrassed and apologetic as well. He helped me carry my bags/diaper bag, etc. to curb side.
#27
On a business flight to Indianapolis, our plane was moving down the tarmac towards the runway. We were probably five minutes from taking off when this young woman (probably 20 or so) starting screaming that she forgot her medication at home and we had to turn around. The flight attendant tried to talk to her to see if someone could mail the meds to her or if she could just go to a pharmacy once we landed, and she insisted she needed it now and was screaming and crying hysterically. We ended up turning around and letting her off the plane. Of course the entire plane had to be emptied and cleared by security before we could leave again, so we ended up about two hours late. I hope she got her meds but if it was that important, she probably should have been a little more careful.
Boo 2 weeks ago (edited)
I have a few meds I have to take and those are the first things that get packed in my carry on. I don't understand how people forget something so important. The next thing is my passport and my bio visa (not so much now, as its all electronic, but back in the day if I wanted to get back in the UK, I had to show it at immigration control).
#28
A woman sat next to me on a 5 hour flight to Mexico City. She sneezed at least 50, maybe 100 times. I never got sick. I had a bad feeling because she looked like she belonged in a hospital bed. I was 36 hours into a 7 day trip when I became ill. I’m walking around in 80 degree weather freezing while getting weaker with every step. The next day I could barely walk. I couldn’t breathe, and my temperature was 104.5 degrees. I was never that sick in my life. I had a doctor come and give me medication. If I wasn’t better by my departure I was going to be hospitalized. I arrived home weakened and 15 pounds lighter than when I went. That was hell. It was the only time I wished I had someone to look after me.
Littlemiss 2 weeks ago
I had that my very first flight. Woman across from me was really ill. I got sick mid flight. I spent the first week of my holiday as sick as ever. It was a nightmare and just got worse. The flight crew were amazing. My parents were nasty as, blamed me for ruining the holiday as if I'd gotten ill on purpose. I often wonder if the crew saw what my mother did to me on the flight and made up for it by being caring.
#29
Back in the ‘90s my (now ex-) wife and I were flying out of Amsterdam with our 3 year old daughter on the New York leg of what would eventually be 16 hours in the air. The flight was crowded, and before we’d even left the ground, the woman behind my wife put her nasty, dirty bare foot on my wife’s arm rest. The woman appeared to be some flavor of middle eastern (judging by the way she was dressed) and didn’t respond to our requests to move it.
Then her son (I assume, aged about 8) started kicking the back of my seat. I grabbed his legs and turned around and gave him a nasty look. He thought it was a great game and kept it up. The stewardess got her to take her feet off the armrest long enough to take off, but as soon as we were in the air, back they went. Our polite request to the stewardess to change seats if possible was unnecessarily rudely rebuffed, so were were stuck with the situation. Eventually the stewardess came back and told us there was one empty seat at the back of the plane, so for the balance of the flight we switched off getting a few moments of peace before having to go back to the nightmare. Longest flight ever.
#30
I didn’t initially feel that way when she sat down, but by mid-flight I was certainly thinking that way.
I was working in Kansas City in the early 1990’s and commuting pretty frequently back and forth to Chicago, where I had lived and where my company was based. The flights from ORD to K.C. are short- about an hour in total. On this particular day I had a window seat in the first row of coach, right on the bulkhead. Sitting next to me in the middle “E” seat was this non-descript white woman who I guess was probably in her mid 40’s or so.
She seemed agitated and fidgeted from the moment she sat down. I did my best to ignore her and either looked out the window, read, or tried to sleep while she’s shifting back and forth in her seat.
Midway through the flight the drink cart comes down and she orders TWO doubles - that is four of those little bottles of booze. I don’t think you can order that many on a short flight these days, but that’s what she did. She throws down both drinks in less than a minute, while I’m sitting there holding my diet Coke with my mouth agape, watching this.
After she downs her drinks and commences to fidget, she jumps up out of her seat and heads to the front of the aircraft to use the lavatory. Again, that is not something they let you get away with anymore on planes, using the first-class lavatory, but back then it was acceptable. Seven minutes later she comes back and sits down and she is REEKING of cigarette smoke! The passenger in the aisle seat and I both turn and stare at her, but she just looks at her lap and says nothing. Not a minute later, the PILOT comes out of the cockpit and walks over and leans across the seat towards her and he said: “Ma’am, were you smoking in the lavatory??” She mumbles a stuttering ‘N-no’, and the captain glares are her for another moment or two and then he turns back to the cockpit.
Now we’re just minutes from landing and the FA are on the intercom with their usual ‘we’re beginning our initial descent into Kansas City’ nonsense, and while this is going on the crazed woman has an unlit cigarette in her hand. She’s twirling it around, lifting it to her lips, taking it out of her mouth, twirling it again - it was unbelievable. So now we’re less than a minute from the airport, the plane is just few dozen feet from the runway, and then just as the tires hit the runway and makes that noise that they make when they hit “Errrt!’ or whatever, the woman unbuckles her seat belt and races to stand in front of the door to get out! The front tire hasn’t even touched down yet, the plane is racing at 180 mph, and this woman is standing with her face six inches from the exit door. At this same time, both FA’s who are buckled up in their jump seats are SCREAMING to her: “Ma’am, get back to your seat, GET BACK TO YOUR SEAT!!” in unison. Reluctantly the woman returns, but as soon as we get to the gate she leapfrogs over the woman in the aisle seat and sprints to gain her spot as the first person to get off of the plane.
I have known a lot of heavy smokers, but never knew of anyone who couldn’t even ride in a plane for an hour without smoking. Had this event happened today, the airport police would be the first ones to greet her when she exited the plane.
Lyoness 2 weeks ago
I guess she'd never heard of the patch or gum. I used to fly internationally all the time back then (worked for an airline) and was a heavy smoker (18 years smoke free now!) I'd slap a patch on an hour before a flight and yank it off as soon as I could have a smoke. A*******n is real but there's no reason to endanger everyone else for your habit.
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DaisyBee 2 weeks ago
Half of these are so painfully made up that it clearly highlights the lack of quality in some of BP’s writers
Kohl_Keene 2 weeks ago
A passenger in front of me had his arm stretched out behind him so that his hand covered my ipad. My husband asked him to remove it and he never apologized. Argh
DaisyBee 2 weeks ago
Half of these are so painfully made up that it clearly highlights the lack of quality in some of BP’s writers
Kohl_Keene 2 weeks ago
A passenger in front of me had his arm stretched out behind him so that his hand covered my ipad. My husband asked him to remove it and he never apologized. Argh
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