Traveling by plane can be a real adventure. Or it can be a real pain in the behind. Your perspective probably depends on a lot of things that you can’t control, from the staff to the weather. If you need a laugh amidst this reality, a good vacation meme might lighten the mood and offer a humorous perspective on the situation. But most people can agree on one thing: that flying can be a good source of inspiration for jokes, memes, and comical incidents.
Here at Bored Panda, we love soaring through the clouds in our Panda Plane and we love all the memes that get created by people who fly. So we made this list for anyone and everyone who’s ever soared through the heavens on an airplane and has been to an airport at least once in their lives.
Get your scrolling wheel ready for takeoff, upvote your favorite memes, and be sure to share them with your friends who either love or loathe airports. And if you’ve got any funny or horrible airport and airplane stories, we’d love to hear them, so share them with everyone somewhere in the comments!
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You need to do this so you'll have taken all your liquids out of your luggage and the security people can see what's in them, as opposed to having them rolling around in your luggage and the security people having to open your luggage and rummage through it to find your nasal spray. Saves time for everyone
In Shenzhen, China; They have a line for first class, a line for late passengers, a line for women only and a line for people without laptop...
The limit is not there because the plane can't carry it. The limit is there so that the one who pack your case into cargo won't break their back.
As long as I feel like the guardian of the child is doing whatever they can to keep the child calm I'm fine with that. We were all babies once, some people just have to travel with them, let's be compassionate. (When the adults let the children run around without supervision and bother people that clearly don't want to be bothered - then I see an issue.)
I wouldn't be looking like that. I'd be backing away cuz that's coming back up any second.
My first travel by plane as a young girl.... I had a bag with realy, realy many pockets... In one of them was scissors. My mom and the security spent several minutes until they found one secret pocket in the bottom of the bag, where that scissors was. :D :D
To be fair, there were zero passengers and they gutted the seats to lower the weight on board.
duck: ''please let me in.... ive seen what happened to the others in the engine....''
I've done something similar when travelling with handluggage only and there was a really severe weight limit. Hurray for big coat pockets!
i would love to see this. every single turn the plane makes and everyone's just like sliding uncontrollably
You can take food. Not juicy stuff like soup, but a sandwich is cool.
Want to cure racism? Require everyone to travel to a foreign country.
I heard they are planning on skipping that because passengers are opening doors to get some fresh air during flight.
In the event of crashlanding in water, please accept the flotation device with our compliments.
Happens once when landing in extremely poor weather conditions in Genova (Windy, Snow by night) But when the plane is taxing; the pilot announced... "We are happy to get autopilot on this kind of weather." So true...
i love radially blurred images cuz they're f*****g hilarious for no reason whatsoever
Dont' go to China; they are opening the luggage rack when the plane is still taxing..
TSA doesn't use this machine anymore. The one they use now uses millimeter wave technology and does not expose your private areas but displays an avatar instead.
Had a great convo with a cabin crew staff member once. Me pointing to screen playing a film: I can't see the film as it's pixelating. Her response was 'but it's playing'. Me: Screen is faulty, I can't see the image 'but it's playing'. Me: Yes, but it's not a clear image. 'but it's playing'. I tried many ways of saying it but it was bouncing off the side of her skull. Had to get a senior member of staff just so they could give me a DVD player as my screen was faulty. How can someone not understand that???
Mine is always a tram ride and a quarter-mile jog away from where I am.
Just let them go ahead and join the people standing in the aisle while you sit back down and enjoy a nap.
Don't complain about drunk passengers if that's what you have given them
No, but if you are the idiot that payed it you are pretty F$#&$# suspicious to me.
Travelling mostly for conferences, there's few lounges or flights without a handful of people that I know... Kind of the opposite: Sometimes there's dozens on my plane --- so if it goes down, there will be a sudden (shortlived, natch) lack of some specialists!
Well, the tray thing is to stop you getting your ribs broken if the landing is a bit rough, but if you like to live dangerously, I say go right ahead... Don't mind if I film and put it on youtube as a cautionary tale though.
* shoots every water droplet* GET EM BOYS- *gets rained on and starts screaming*
just a little disturbing to see the crash, but i get the joke
I have a friend who has tourettes syndrome and whenever we're at the airport one of her tics is to yell "I have a bomb" or just "bomb" and that's sometimes really awkward to explain
What does she do? Does she have to constantly explain? Must be really tough for her.
Load More Replies...My husband and I used to like flying. Then 9/11 happened. We came back from the UK where everyone was so sympathetic and kind... and it was all camo-is-the-new-black, open carry, and WTF ARE YOU DOING CARRYING MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS. NO, YOU CAN'T HAVE USED STRINGS IN YOUR BACKPACK YOU COULD STRANGLE SOMEONE WITH THEM. It's only gotten worse and worse and worse. We avoid it at all costs now. :(
I used to work for TSA and we didn't care about musical instruments or string unless it was detonator.
Load More Replies...I have an old friend who hates commercial flying so much, and has to travel for his work so frequently, that he put together a report showing that it would be cheaper for the company to buy an airplane and him fly it himself. And they did.
Yikes. I would not want to learn to fly. The ones that I don't get (meaning I'm not aiming this at you DE Ray or your old friend) are the people constantly travelling for work just to have conversations in different countries. Use video conferencing - it's exceptionally effective and much, much cheaper. Plus, ahem, the environment.
Load More Replies...I have a friend who has tourettes syndrome and whenever we're at the airport one of her tics is to yell "I have a bomb" or just "bomb" and that's sometimes really awkward to explain
What does she do? Does she have to constantly explain? Must be really tough for her.
Load More Replies...My husband and I used to like flying. Then 9/11 happened. We came back from the UK where everyone was so sympathetic and kind... and it was all camo-is-the-new-black, open carry, and WTF ARE YOU DOING CARRYING MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS. NO, YOU CAN'T HAVE USED STRINGS IN YOUR BACKPACK YOU COULD STRANGLE SOMEONE WITH THEM. It's only gotten worse and worse and worse. We avoid it at all costs now. :(
I used to work for TSA and we didn't care about musical instruments or string unless it was detonator.
Load More Replies...I have an old friend who hates commercial flying so much, and has to travel for his work so frequently, that he put together a report showing that it would be cheaper for the company to buy an airplane and him fly it himself. And they did.
Yikes. I would not want to learn to fly. The ones that I don't get (meaning I'm not aiming this at you DE Ray or your old friend) are the people constantly travelling for work just to have conversations in different countries. Use video conferencing - it's exceptionally effective and much, much cheaper. Plus, ahem, the environment.
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