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!
This post may include affiliate links.
It totally looks like he is staring at someone ! As we all wear sunnies when we fly lol
You're allowed to bring frozen water through! I found this out recently.
Load More Replies...A lady in line in front of me told them she has holy water. They let her pass. My friend asked if she can bring holy Cola.
One airport took away my ice. Another let me keep it. It's all just security theatre anyway. Now I just always have ice in a ziplock to keep my snacks cold. If they take it away I'll get some more at a restaurant after security.
You can carry an empty water bottle and fill it after you get past security.
No, but the tiny plastic "airplane" bottles of vodka (or whatever) are less than 3 oz!
Load More Replies...True: https://www.tsa.gov/travel/security-screening/whatcanibring/items/ice
This is the same when I walk out of the store without buying anything, worrying that I've accidentally stolen something even though I haven't
I did accidentally steal something once. 😲 A lingerie shop in an airport (can't remember where) and a frilly item (short night slip thing) got caught up on my bag by the hanger. I was quite a way from the shop before I realised and rushed it back (it was horrible). The lady at the shop was very grateful I came back and explained that they can't use the security tags because the fabric is too delicate and would get damaged - in a way I'm glad they couldn't as at least I was clearly not deliberately stealing it. If I got stopped at the door by an alarm going off might not have been so believable - and I wouldn't want them to think I'd actually chosen it!! Shudder.
Load More Replies...Same with those questions they ask sometimes to make sure you’re you I have to prepare to answer questions about myself just so I don’t screw up and say something dumb for no reason
They have the superpower to make you rethink your whole packing process and guilt you into thinking your sunglasses are a weapon.
"what if i became an international drug lord in my sleep overnight and have 200 million worth of art in my luggage? oh f**k, i'm going to prison"
I tend to worry that the rules have suddenly changed or that there's one that I'm not aware of. That's fairly rational I feel lol, bureaucracy really do be like that sometimes
this is me..but with my brother. I swear every time we go on a trip, they check his bag and pull some sort of pocket knife out, I'm like "WTF?!"
Bored Panda talked about air travel and the changing industry to one Redditor who uploaded an incredibly popular airport meme onto Reddit’s r/funny community. The meme was so good that it got over 56,500 upvotes in just 3 days and sparked over 1,100 comments.
According to the Redditor, “nothing beats flight in terms of speed and convenience, so it is understandable that airlines do not need to cater to every need of their customers — we have barely any other travel options available.”
“However, airlines are protected by the law far better than the passengers are. For instance, the airline can downgrade or cancel someone's ticket with no repercussions whatsoever,” they explained. “I've had this happen with United in the US and Lufthansa in the EU, and found no way to be reimbursed the money that I lost on those flights.”
hardly lawless. I got stopped for running to my gate because apparently running (or rather jogging through people as it were) is seen as suspicious. maybe dont change gates last minute so people dont have to sprint to their plane
airport lawyers. they must become a thing. just like. a person. that follows you around in airports and yells "objection" everytime you see overpriced chips.
I will pass out from dehydration before I pay $4.99 for a 16 oz. bottle of water.
Yup. Stretching stiff legs. Plus I am short and I can fit under the bins.
Load More Replies...Again, 6'2 with a few knee surgeries under my belt. I'm not trying to do anything but stretch my legs.
Took me years to learn this one. I was sore one day so I stood up and the light bulb went off. So THAT'S why they do it. Plus you can get your bag out of the overhead without stalling the rest of the lineup.
Load More Replies...Stretching my f*****g legs after hours on the least comfortable seat ever.
Or people pushing in line to get on to the plane quicker. You aren't going to land any quicker than the last person on.
But maybe they still can find place to store their luggage while the last peoples will have their hand luggage checked and wait at the destination to get them back
Load More Replies...They have bad knees, like millions of people, are taller than the dwarves for which the seats were made, or had to sit for six hours with the seat in front of them fully reclined. They HAVE TO STAND UP ASAP. Yes, they already know they are not going anywhere fast, genius.
The Reddit user agreed that the quality of air travel has dropped along with the price, however, things aren’t all bad: “The quality goes down with the price, but it's not that bad. I mean, having an option to pay less, understandably, means lower quality of a service. However, when there are no options present, airlines will make you pay up even for the cheapest option. It's all supply and demand.”
According to the Redditor, there is a lot that airlines could do to make travel more comfortable for passengers. “But why would they? Low cost airlines don't really earn much on each basic passenger, so they either have to fill their planes in a sardine-like fashion, or charge more.”
“Do not fly airlines that treat you like cattle. Pay extra, but pay to those who acknowledge your dignity,” they added.
when i was younger and flew with my parents, my dad called people who rush onto the plane last-minute "The Crushers Of Dreams"
Load More Replies...I booked a window seat right next to the lavatory in the last row of economy, thinking no one would be crazy enough to book the aisle seat, and I was correct. After the doors are shut I'm already getting all snuggly and preparing for a 10hrs flight all by myself, lifting the armrest and making me a cozy little economy bed when... A Flight Attendant comes over and sits another passenger on my happy seat. I will not lie to you, I actually cried. I cried real tears.
holy s**t, i feel you so hard. It goes from heaven to hell in 1 second flat.
Load More Replies...I was so excited to have a window seat with two empty seats next to me last week and then the woman in the aisle seat across from me decided to move to the aisle seat in my row and piled all of her carry-on luggage in the middle seat next to me after the plane started taxiing... I was not happy.
Until that lady asks to sit there to get away from her awful unruly child
Some how they just appear out of nowhere and take the seats. Now you’re trapped for the length of the ride. Heaven to betsy you need to go to the bathroom and have to climb over the stranger. All the time praying you don’t fall in there lap.
It's actually specific duck tape for aviation and quite frequent to be used. Don't worry, just hope they didn't got the cheap version...
Your user name is my favorite thing this week.
Load More Replies...A man worth his salt can fix almost anything with just these three items : duct tape, grip, screwdriver. (Gran Torino quote :D) jokes apart, airplanes CAN be fixed this way with two policies : pressurized areas needs a special duct tape which looks just a reinforced highly sticky adesive panel, non pressurized area like the one shown above, can be fixed with home depot duct tape. Even in the worst case the cowling blowns away, no big deal. Even it causes damage, every airplane has one engine more than the needed trust to reach an airport. Four engines have 25% more, three engines 33% more, dual engines like the one shown above, 50% more. So compared to emergiences, dual engines are safer than four engines.
what no one realizes is that duct tape fixes everythinggggggggggg!!! not relationships tho, already tried that
Bloody hell, it's not a "duct tape" - it's called "speed tape" and the roll he is using there is about £700. It's a piece of engineering.
This is not duct tape.. This is high speed tape, it will rip your skin of if you would stick it there..
I was once waiting for my luggage at a small European airport when a pair of white underpants came around on the conveyor. Everyone just stared at it going around and around and nobody would claim it and admit that it was their underwear.
i would prefer that so much on the seat next to me rather than a baby
If you look out a window at the people boarding your luggage, they just chuck it in there without an ounce of care for whatever's inside. Even if you had a 3ft sign saying FRAGILE BE CAREFUL they wouldn't give a shoot.
Sometimes, however, the most annoying things you encounter on your aerial adventures are your fellow passengers, not the airlines. CNN has compiled some of the most annoying things that other fliers do that really get on our nerves. Some of them are quite obvious. Others are much rarer.
For example, most of us can get behind the idea that people who compulsively shake their legs have no place on planes, let alone any form of transportation, aside from riding on horses. You know what, I changed my mind—horses don’t deserve leg-shakers either.
I'm 175cm and travelling like this is extremely uncomfortable for me! Can't imagine what it's like for people who are closer to 2m...
Like we said in Mexico "patitas de molcajete" this is translated to "molcajete legs" lemme give you an image of what a molcajete is.... hahahaha You will understand, open the image, and you'll see the mocajete legs are really short. molcajete-...ac2f9e.jpg
that's nice, but you've made me hungry dude. that looks delicious
Load More Replies...Should also show the front view, where we don't have shoulders, either.
Airlines had the same human specs for their planes as they did in the 50s (average weight, height, etc) until a few plane crashes and some relatives of crash victims highlighted that planes were crashing and falling out of the sky because they were heavier than the calculations done by flight crew before departure (they were using the same averages as above that were outdated). This was in 2005. Let that sink in.
Next thing you know your legs get stuck one day and you cant get out
And right you are. Imagine telling your friends that you travelled on a plane and having no facebook messages to back up your story. The humiliation..... /s
Load More Replies...This is the funniest information till date. For the serious adventure check out the blog
landed at SDF in KY one time and I saw a lady posting on facebook about how slow and horrible the airport and staff were to get the plane de boarded and we had literally just pulled into the gate.
It's true, in the meantime the US Army have dropped UCP for multicam. :D
Load More Replies...People who loudly talk on their smartphones are also unwanted on airplanes: there’s no reason to yell into the receiver that you’ve just landed. Relax. Take a chill pill. Call your loved ones once you’re off the magical flying sky chariot.
One other thing that annoys a lot of travelers is when their companions kick off their shoes and take off their socks; there’s a place for bare feet and it’s not on what essentially is a more aerodynamic bus. You wouldn’t walk around barefooted on a city bus, would you? Reexamine your life if you’ve answered ‘yes’ to that question.
Each 2 during the day and each 2 for the evenings and 1 extra if something happens. Especially if said person is sweating heavily.
Load More Replies...If you ever have to go some where quickly, or evacuate, take your dirty clothes hamper. That's where your real clothes are.
Has anyone else ever packed like 7 pairs of pants for a 3 day trip, like OMG what if i s**t myslef everyday?
And I couldn't possibly go on holiday for 5 days without packing every single screen I own
For someone who travels quite frequently, YOU DO NEED THOSE 5 T-SHIRTS ON YOUR TWO DAY TRIP :-)
Yes but to a better kind of c**p then the c**p you left . just like you pick your battles you gotta pick your craps
Load More Replies...But you are surrounded by hundreds of strangers who could give you s**t, and you're not able to get away from them!
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
Yet...you can't bring water with you because it may be a bomb, however they have you throw your bottle of water away at the security scanners? Hmmm...sounds like some b.s. to me!
Load More Replies...Thank goodness it was under the ounces requirement or they would have thrown it away.
Amaxon Dot Com™! ( https://www.amazon.com/Electrical-Sticker-Fake-Wall-Outlet/dp/B01AS5ZSJO )
Load More Replies...You are evil. Tell me your secrets so I may weild the power of the fake outlet.
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...
It is not who has been there before. It are those with common sense, and those without. "Oh, I am already first in line. Let me see (half a minute later)...oh, I have the small bottle of facial cream in the somewhere...wait, let me get my bag back...(half a minute later) oh, I really have to take out the jacket? (I thought the 50 people before me where all just hot right in the moment when coming to the belt.) Oh, wait, what is that? A coin in my pocket, isn't that funny? Oh, wait, I had two of these facial creams in my back...could you kindly get it back? Oh snap, where is it now..."
I was that person last time I flew... I hadn't been on a plane since before the TSA overkill protocols. I thought I did well packing, TSA did not. Bahaha I apologize to everyone there that day!! I have learned my lesson!!
Load More Replies...Also please tell me who are the people who don’t know how to fasten a seat belt?
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.
Except you can keep the weight in your bag as long as you pay extra
Load More Replies...Its not the weight. Its the weight distribution in the airframe.
This post is about the opposite, though. It's about moving things into your carry-on because your checked luggage is too heavy, not the other way around.
Load More Replies...the limits are there not to get the plane overloaded, knowing they have enough fuel for the weight carried, and for balancing the plane.
In the early teens, I took a few charters from Miami to Havana. Of course that's such a short flight that overweight wouldn't affect the plane's range, but passengers brought so much stuff on these flights (often 5-6 carts for one or two people) that the operator didn't seem concerned with weight distribution
Load More Replies...My favorite was when the passengers were weighed to get on the plane from Manila to Boracay.
The limit is there because most airlines carry commercial freight also and that gives them more room to make money. It’s also the reason luggage gets left behind because they put a priority on those.
I just pay the fee if it’s big, or else I will just put it into another bag
This is the stupidest logic I have ever encountered. In the wise words of Infinite, "What the f***k?"
You shouldn't sit in your underpants anywhere besides at home.
Load More Replies...Dudes got some serious camel toe in those shorts! I didn't know that was possible.
I had a similar experience on a bus. I sit down and take the window seat. Another younger guy sits next to me. Then I see a drunk guy stumble on, and I immediately think, "yahoo! I don't have to deal with a drunk idiot for the 7-hour bus ride!" Then... he makes the guy sitting next to me move so he can sit there. "G--DAMMIT!!" My first - and ONLY experience with Greyhound...
Why didn't you kick the drunk off the seat and her violent like I would in this situation?
Load More Replies...wait...they had that? i dont mean the food in the first picture if you were wondering...i meant the seats...
Get to the airport more than two hours before the flight they said..it’ll be fun they said....
Who in the world would say that hanging out at an airport is "fun"?
Load More Replies...I'm that person (not to that extreme, but I want to be at the airport 2 hours before departure for sure) and I'm not ashamed of it. My partner and I fought about it when leaving for our last trip (I wanted to run to catch a bus to the airport and not wait 15 minutes for another, he did not). Turns out I was right, there was a huge queue at the baggage claim and we were glad we had those extra 15 minutes. I apologize to my future children in advance.
I'm very tired so if I'm about to ask a dumb question, apologies, but if you are in departures why are you also dealing with a queue at baggage claim? I've not had a holiday for a few years (bah!) so I think I've forgotten what it's like!
Load More Replies...Actually with my family it's "Flight departure at 3pm" and we're leaving our house for the 3 hour drive to the airport at 2:59pm
I'm a get to airport early type person. Get all the anxiety out of the way, minimise anything going wrong, and then wait 3 hours in and around my gate drinking $9 airport coffee and watching planes take off and land. Reduces anxiety and panic (other than the excessive prices) and helps me prepare myself for the flight
The airport IS fun, plus you need the time to stock up on toblerones!!!
EVERY. SINGLE. TIME... and yes... of course - they don't get the 3pm flight... they get the 9AM flight - and they wonder why my brother and I were NOT happy waking up at 4am...
I bought lime green luggage before my trip to Vegas, mostly because it’s one of my favorite colors but also because EVERYONE has black luggage. Isn’t picked my ex up at the airport enough times, checked 20 black bags to see if they were his or not, I didn’t want to dig through looking for mine! So at the luggage claim, I stand back and watch: black bag, black bag, black bag, DING!! Lime green!! I’m ready!!
You don’t put a picture of yourself on anything when you look like that 🤢
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.)
Ah, I wish I had your compassion on this. If a baby starts screaming near me I would lose my s**t. Travelling is difficult enough without putting screaming babies into the equation. There should be a partitioned baby section.
Load More Replies...You know what's worse than a crying baby? Loud obnoxious grown a*s adults.
My ad nauseum comment: I fly twice weekly. I’m on planes a LOT. I’ll say adults losing their shît or bîtching about their expectations are a regular, practically guaranteed occurrence. Every single flight there’s some drama or tantrum. Babies rarely are crying loud or consistently enough to disturb my sleep or entertainment. And when they do, parents are almost always apologetic and trying to remedy the situation. Which is usually sinus and ear pressure pain, so most people are empathetic.
Load More Replies...Probably changes too much per flight - some with several, some with none. Otherwise it makes perfect sense. Poor babies ! It's not like they do it deliberately. People being noisy, smelly morons on flights? Now they can help it!
Load More Replies...Many yrs ago I had to take my teething baby on the Concorde red-eye flight and was dreading it so much but everyone, staff as well as passengers, were absolutely brilliant. We got moved to a seat close to the bathroom with lots of legroom and I received lots of sympathetic smiles as I walked up and down the aisle for ages soothing her. I did my best to be considerate, the baby did her best despite her pain and everyone else clearly empathised which meant the world.
Better to share a plane with a baby than bunch of noisy grown ups who think they are super funny with yelling stupid jokes over the whole plane because everybody needs to know they are on holiday and plan to be drunk as f@ck.
i'd rather a plane full of babies than 1 single drunk.
Load More Replies...Let's be honest the problem is not the baby - it's the noise, any noise from anyone or anything. It's just more likely to come from a baby.
I wouldn't be looking like that. I'd be backing away cuz that's coming back up any second.
So... who else is going to put some ice tea in shampoo bottle just for this joke?
Definitely me. Or water in a bottle of vodka. Hahaha, okay, now I'm actually anxious to my next trip.
Load More Replies...I was gonna say that it's a weird joke 'cause I know a company that sells beer shampoos and then I realized that it's probably not a common thing outside the Czech Republic...
Load More Replies...fill a shampoo bottle with yogurt. chug it in airport security. profit.
They took my lipstick, mascara and roll on tiny perfume. Pretty sure shampoo is off limits. I'm still salty about it though.
Someday I will do this, but of course with water in the bottle :D I wanna see their faces
Oh, yes. Certainly had that happen! Why do I never get gorgeous passengers in front of me like this one?
Load More Replies..."Kick the back of my seat one more time, and I'm telling the crew I smelled cocaine in your luggage..."
Now wouldn't that be a great spot especially if you had some doggie treats!
Aw. I'd give him any snacks he wanted. How could one resist? Especially if he's a service dog. They deserve first class!
Worst if the cart has already passed, you know she wont comeback any soon
one poor lonely fry...... at least it has a leaf to keep it company *eats leaf and leaves fry*
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
OMG this happened to me too. Decided for some reason to use a purse I hadn't used in like 5 years. Happened to have a TINY pocket knife in a hidden pocket. When I say tiny I mean like the blade was maybe half the length of a pinky. I didn't even know it was in there. Didn't even remember the pocket. Holy s**t you would've thought I had a bomb strapped to my chest the way they reacted. When they finally found it they were like do you want to mail this home? I'm like ummmm I haven't left "home" no I'm not paying 15 dollars to send this thing that I forgot about 15 miles away. Lol.
Load More Replies...I traveled recently and used a bag that I had taken to the range. No gun, but there were a few stray rounds that had accidently been left behind. Security pulled the bag, asked me why I had them, I explained. Inquired if I was in trouble and going to miss the flight "Oh no, we only pull you from the flight if you have 50 rounds or more." Yikes.
About 10 years ago I bought a letter opener at an Egyptian airport. It was clear that the security guards wanted money to allow me onto the plane but I didn't have any, so they waved me through. I often think about the time I had a 12 inch blade on a flight when I'm waiting to see if they let me onto a plane with my 120ml bottle of makeup.
My aunt works at an airport renting cars and is required to carry a gun at work. Because she works at the airport, she gets one free flight every month. Coming home one month, she goes through airpost securityafter work, forgetting that she had a gun in her purse... Imagine how that went down.
About like a fellow employee was coming back and his high school aged son said what would happen if there was bomb. He spent hours convincing them his son was stupid. He had to play every card, including he was a retired AF colonial.
Load More Replies...This summer on the way to London, England, we had a layover in Germany and I forgot to take my scissors out of my art bag before we left home. Long story short they just threw them away. However, the part about this that scares me is that they didn't catch it during the security in the US. :o
My husband accidentally left his dive knife in his carry-on. He refuses to put his dive gear anywhere but carry-on. Thank goodness they let him go back and put it with our checked luggage.
They took my nail clippers away on one trip. Were they afraid I would clip everyone's nails?
Or as in my case—a well hidden unknown pocket knife in my backpack. Thought sure I was headed to a more intrusive search, jail, and the No Fly list.
I usually have a different purse I take with me to travel, so I can fit a lot in. Was promptly stopped when my purse on the conveyor scanned. They told me I have a "grain" in my purse and requested me to remove it. Wtf is a grain, I pulled out my bag and to my horror inside was a fired bullet an army friend gave me as memorabilia. Well, since I was heading to Moscow I refused to take it with me as an "item of importance" to me bc how the hell would I explain that to the border control in Moscow... Bonus: that wasn't the end of my endeavours that trip. My pack of cigarettes (ex-smoker now) beeped going through the metal detector at Kremlin. Not lighter, cig pack. To this day I've no idea how that happened. Entering the GUM, I beeped again because of a wrapped gift I had received from a jewelry store for purchasing from them. I had to explain to the security guard that I had *no clue* what was in the wrapped packet on me, God knows how he let me pass. It was a jewelry box...
That top photo was taken when flying was only a luxury with the very wealthy. Today lot of normal people can afford it but you're lucky if you even get those pretzels. From my experience Spirit and Frontier doesn't supply those. I've only got them on American.
Delta generally offers biscoff cookies, granola bars (Kind brand even!), almonds, or cheez-its.. Not a terrible selection.
Load More Replies...This depends on the length of the flight. I've had some good food on long flights and had almost none on other short flights. This was before low-budget flights, I think they don't even give out anything
The only planes I could afford probably require a credit card swipe for a life jacket during a water landing.
I always fly economy. Once with Easy Jet there was water leaking from the air con above people's seats. I told an attendant and she looked at me like I was an idiot, 'It happens sometimes.' She said. My best experience was with Thai Airways. It must have been economy but they treat you like royalty and it felt like business class.
Just came back from the USA. On the flights in the USA (NYC - SFO) we had normal (airplane) meals and snacks and drinks, for free. If you wanted booze you had to pay. On the flights from and to Europe we had meals and snacks and drinks and booze etc as much as you wanted. And this was Delta Economy.
Wow, I haven't gotten a meal on a US domestic flight in well over a decade...
Load More Replies...Frontier has tray tables the size of a large smartphone and they charge $3.50 for a bottle of water. Their seats don't recline. I could just about accept this if their prices were as low as RyanAir, but they are not
Or you forgot that you left your spare phone was in your registrarted luggage....
Yet our military aircraft have gigawatt plus EMP shielding. But a commercial plane can be crippled by milliwatt transmissions while being hit with all the other frequencies transmitted around the airport. On the off chance you flatulence is the right frequency you could bring down planes for miles. Amazing the weaknesses and risks we take everyday.
The explosion will wipe out the evidence (hopefully) and no one will finds out... I guess...
Dihydrogen monoxide is worse. Did you know every single person who consumes it will DIE?
Load More Replies...Reminds me of that one April Fool’s prank where two DJs were arrested for telling people that that "dihydrogen monoxide" was coming out of their taps. Fun fact! Dihydrogen monoxide is water.
I raise you a Carl Gustaf. Happened in Texas. For those unfamiliar, it is a recoilless rifle. Think of a fancy bazooka In it original.military case. And it is on the.larger side.definitely not a carryon approved size.
h-how do you... bring a german tank... on a plane... i would like to know for future refrence
To be fair, there were zero passengers and they gutted the seats to lower the weight on board.
It's a nasa cargoplane. No seats were gutted since there were none to begin with.
Load More Replies...I would think the weight requirements are for a couple of reasons. Not only for maximum weight on a flight but also the poor workers. Can you imagine someone trying to toss around bags weighing 75 or 100 pounds?
The final piggy back shuttle flight of the last shuttle to its retirement included a low flyover in Tucson AZ. Tucson got this honor thanks to Mark Kelly, astronaut and husband of Gabby Gifford's- the Representative who survived an assassination attempt while holding a meet and greet event in Tucson , her home town. It's a small city, and Everyone I know had personal connections to one or more of the people who were victims of that deranged gunman. The Shuttle fly over was a healing moment for us all- I stood on my front step and watched it's arc across the town. So close you couldn't believe it. It's Something I'll never forget.
If your luggage is overweight and you pay the extra fee, does it make your luggage weigh less?
Airlines need to make money. More weight=more fuel needed=more cost for the airline=you should pay for that.
While that shuttle is close to 500.000 pounds in weight, a 747 fully loaded with passenger, cargo and fuel loaded can lift up to 975.000 pounds. So this comparison is c**p.
Was about to say this plane is a custom made one, but yeah... gutted seats etc xDD
Load More Replies...the heavier it is, the more fuel it takes to travel. Also that fee is there so that boyfriends/husbands doesn't need to carry a 50kg baggage for their girlfriend / wife. I'm just kidding.
Is that a stripped down old-timey cutlery box? Because it sure ain't a suitcase...
Considering that I really have did exactly that on a trip to Sudan 4 years ago.. Yes.. I will pack a pair for every single day plus 10 more for good measure.
Dear Lort! I have hives from seeing how neatly that suitcase is packed.
Because I'm travelling to a place where underwear is an unknown concept so there are no shops to buy them?
We take away undies that are getting on in age so dispose of them when on holiday, leaving them behind in a bin. Like a gross treasure hunt
duck: ''please let me in.... ive seen what happened to the others in the engine....''
people who doesn't get this website should leave. it's like people read the onion and take it seriously :-)
I've done something similar when travelling with handluggage only and there was a really severe weight limit. Hurray for big coat pockets!
I told my sister to do that. and she could pack everything back after she pass check-in.
i would love to see this. every single turn the plane makes and everyone's just like sliding uncontrollably
It’s been stripped to use as a freighter but you see the tracks to replace all the seats
R*** is almost charging for people use the toilets so, I would not be surprised if this come true one day.
As someone who was a kid once, its not the parents OR babies fault their crying. It's not like there is an off switch you can press! The baby is probably just scared, imagine you were being taken into a metal tube and had no way to express yourself except wailing for it to stop, and it can't. Remember you were a baby who did this too.
I once had a plane trip where these kids were screaming "I WANT WATER!" and sounded like they were dying.
You can take food. Not juicy stuff like soup, but a sandwich is cool.
Me: You aren't the boss of me. I can have a s****y day if I want to!
Depending on the flight length is how I select a seat. A few hours, a window seat. An eight hour flight to India, an aisle seat. I hate asking people to get up to let me out.
I think in the scenario, they ARE the passenger in the window seat...
Load More Replies...Want to cure racism? Require everyone to travel to a foreign country.
You would think so, but then you hear the stories of Americans especially who expect people to speak English in every country...
Load More Replies...And they stand so close to other people that were one to clinch their butt cheeks you'd end up pulling them with you!
Load More Replies...And the amusing thing is they did some some serious research on this and the "now boarding zone one" thing is one of the SLOWEST methods, behind even boarding completely at random: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAHbLRjF0vo
Its not about speed, it is about making money. People will pay to be first on the plane because somehow it makes them feel superior.
Load More Replies...I hate the boarding process ... you've got to push your way through the crowd that's taken over the boarding gate who are Priority #5 and they're loading Priority #1.
I heard they are planning on skipping that because passengers are opening doors to get some fresh air during flight.
The 4th one would be my brother, who was at his gate with plenty of time eating airport food for dinner, and still managed to miss his flight somehow.
I'm type 9: get put in a wheelchair assistance area for several hours where they forget about me through a shift change then someone comes running 9 minutes before take off and acts like I'VE been delaying THEM this whole time. Yes you, NCL airport
I do 1 and then happen 3. Never, ever kill me first if I do number 2
I can easily push the boundaries. When I walk into an airport, my only response to the airline staff is, "Okay", "Thank you", "Yes, I will" or some other positive affirmation statement. No matter how upset I am, I'm always on my best behavior in the airport. For a fun time, watch "Crazy people in the airport" videos on youtube.
In the event of crashlanding in water, please accept the flotation device with our compliments.
Haha! I seriously doubt that. I'm sure they'll add it to your hospital bill. ;P
Load More Replies...just be calm and float while the sharks may or may be already circling around you... oh wait nvm! WE'RE NOT EVEN NEAR WATER :D
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 was flying from San Francisco to Atlanta in 2004. During Hurricane Ivan. When we got to Atlanta the pilot announced that we were in a holding pattern due to the extreme weather. So, after about 30 minutes of circling , we finally were able to alnd. The entire plane erupted in applause.
I've yet to be on a flight where that happened. To my recollection anyway.
i love radially blurred images cuz they're f*****g hilarious for no reason whatsoever
I always make sure I've eaten something before I go to the airport. Not only do I want to pay $19.99 for a bagel, it's hard to find healthy choices.
Dont' go to China; they are opening the luggage rack when the plane is still taxing..
not rly from my experience living in China, but I could be wrong
Load More Replies...That was my thinking too - soulmates aren't going to do something you are absolutely opposed to. Or exist even... cue screams of horror from all the romantics.
Load More Replies...There will be no foolish wand waving, or silly incantations in first class!
i panic when they read them out cuz im like 'oh my gawd will this happen on my flight' then when they read them in a diff language i can relax
People who recline their seats on public transport when there's someone sitting behind them are the worst
It depends... bullet trains in Japan have plenty of space~
Load More Replies...She's done nothing wrong, the seat reclines, therefore it is an option and one I'll take just because it's there AND as far back as I can go!!!!!! But in my defense ...... BITE ME!
I'm 6ft5 so not many airline seats are comfortable to me anyways. If the person in front of my reclines I just shrug it off. They have the right to be comfortable, they paid for their ticket. We should just be thankful that air travel exists, anyone who complains about people reclining on aeroplanes really are suffering with first world problems.
So you wake her up and tell her she has to sit upright or you'll be going to sing 9999999 bottles of beer and your singing voice sounds likes a dentist's drill.
This is actually a religious tradition of certain jews. They believe that if the airplane flies over graveyards they will get spiritually contaminated by the dead souls below them. Somehow plastic protects them from the contaminated souls.
Load More Replies...I once sat next to a woman who threw a blanket over herself for the entire trip. I thought, "Had she not been a woman, I might think a guy would be watching porn under that blanket." I had no idea what she was doing but she wasn't sleeping.
Women also look porn, you know... Well... My friend do... Or I read somewhere... At least according to what people say...
Load More Replies...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.
How do people manage to get their bag stolen? I keep a constant eye on mine or I'll keep it constantly touching my body. If I need to sleep then I'll sleep on top of it
It can happen on the conveyer belt for checked-in luggage. Someone at the front can just grab any case and go. Since many cases look alike, i'm guessing there are also a fair amount of accidental swaps.
Load More Replies...Well, that’s one effective way to deter people from wanting to steal your luggage
I once had to sit in the plane on the tarmac for almost 2 hours after landing until the police arrived to arrest the guy who'd started smoking, stubbed out his cigarette on the carpet, which then caught fire. Everyone gave him filthy looks as we finally got off, and I'm sure somebody probably booed.
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???
Considering the amount of flight time remaining( 08:04), they won't able to watch any genre
Mine is always a tram ride and a quarter-mile jog away from where I am.
You must travel through all the big airport hubs. Try the airport on Niue, South Pacific.
Shhh, don't say that! They'll take them away from you and give you plastic instead!
I cut my finger pretty badly with a butter knife last week...
Load More Replies...Just let them go ahead and join the people standing in the aisle while you sit back down and enjoy a nap.
The meme format actually is to go dumber and dumber the further down (it's like a sarcastic meme). Like, thanking the flight attendant would be smartest, but the dumbest would be bringing fireworks, but they just inverted it to make it funny.
Load More Replies...All flight attendants up til now wished me a nice stay, pleasant holidays or something similar. Ir would just be rude to not thank them, wouldn't it?
I think so - though if you're hearing 'thanks very much' hundreds of times a day it must start to mean a lot less! I would still do it though.
Load More Replies...Don't complain about drunk passengers if that's what you have given them
Or allow them to drink loads of alcohol before boarding the plane.
Load More Replies...The steward(ess) should have to go through re-training. If the flight ended up having a conflict with this guy, they were the ones to blame.
I don't think many cabin crew would do this surely?
Load More Replies...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!
The joke is how some passengers will give workers all the wrong information and totally ignore instructions
Load More Replies...I would clap for you if you did. At the end of the flight, of course.
Load More Replies...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.
more like the plane when that one person 'doesn't put their phone on airplane mode'
hey it wouldn't be the WORST thing Thor did in an airport
Load More Replies...If you have to explain the picture, it's not really going well.
Be a bit odd to actually stay in the airport though.
Load More Replies...What is Fortnite even about? What's with the donkey pinata thing? Is it alive or just there?
* 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
Well, duh. The image is from a computer recreation of American Airlines Flight 191 crash, back in 1979, using a flight simulator: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMIpXD46_eU There are a few photographs, but no video of the catastrophe.
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.
Load More Replies...Best check in story: Flying from west coast to east coast. Wearing Jeans and a hoodie. Jeans had these TINY little crystal bead things on back pockets. Get patted down, and by patted down I mean this chick still owes me dinner by the way she was. Tells me later that she thought "I might be smuggling diamonds" My response? B***h they're not even an 1/8th of a carat if that were true and there's like 5 on each pocket, please tell me how in any life that would be true? AND you owe me dinner for that feel you just copped." Lmao.
For those that were curious, the airlines do indeed weight passengers: "The Federal Aviation Administration sets an average weight per traveler and carry-on luggage to estimate how much weight planes will carry. According to "The New York Times," the average weight assigned to each passenger by the FAA is 200 pounds for men, 179 pounds for women and 76 pounds for children under 13. These estimates include 16 pounds per person of carry-on luggage and averages in the weight of winter and summer clothing." This change came in 2005, after a few fatal crashes that resulted in pilots and airlines using outdated weights and measurements from the 50s.
Not completely true. In Frankfurt, biggest airport in Germany, you have high security and full body scanners. Patdowns and taking things off though are only demanded if the scanner shows something. Similar to most big european airports, afaik.
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.
Load More Replies...Best check in story: Flying from west coast to east coast. Wearing Jeans and a hoodie. Jeans had these TINY little crystal bead things on back pockets. Get patted down, and by patted down I mean this chick still owes me dinner by the way she was. Tells me later that she thought "I might be smuggling diamonds" My response? B***h they're not even an 1/8th of a carat if that were true and there's like 5 on each pocket, please tell me how in any life that would be true? AND you owe me dinner for that feel you just copped." Lmao.
For those that were curious, the airlines do indeed weight passengers: "The Federal Aviation Administration sets an average weight per traveler and carry-on luggage to estimate how much weight planes will carry. According to "The New York Times," the average weight assigned to each passenger by the FAA is 200 pounds for men, 179 pounds for women and 76 pounds for children under 13. These estimates include 16 pounds per person of carry-on luggage and averages in the weight of winter and summer clothing." This change came in 2005, after a few fatal crashes that resulted in pilots and airlines using outdated weights and measurements from the 50s.
Not completely true. In Frankfurt, biggest airport in Germany, you have high security and full body scanners. Patdowns and taking things off though are only demanded if the scanner shows something. Similar to most big european airports, afaik.
Load More Replies...
