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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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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.”
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.
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Lilian Della Rose 6 years ago
when i was younger and flew with my parents, my dad called people who rush onto the plane last-minute "The Crushers Of Dreams"
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Beatrice Alighieri 6 years ago (edited)
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.
Valerie Lessard 6 years ago
holy s**t, i feel you so hard. It goes from heaven to hell in 1 second flat.
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redheadwahine 6 years ago
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.
Terence Michael 6 years ago
Until that lady asks to sit there to get away from her awful unruly child
Magic lady 6 years ago
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.
Tim Bijlsma 6 years ago
Had it last time with just my gf next to me and with extra leg room. Felt like heaven.
Donna Reynolds 6 years ago
Or the old 5 in the middle seat flights when all were empty and you could sleep reclined.
Erla Zwingle 2 years ago
This will remain a dream. This is 2023. Those seats will never be empty again.
Alatheia Eunomia 6 years ago
Flight attendants of major carriers don’t close aircraft doors. Gate agents do.
MammaG 6 years ago
Nobody cares as long as someone closes it. Nobody. Cares.
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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.
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.
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Kaisu 6 years ago
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
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Human #1,232,867 6 years ago
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...
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Nagawa (Cofa) Kishiki 6 years ago
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.
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Pamela24 6 years ago
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.)
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tuzdayschild 6 years ago
I wouldn't be looking like that. I'd be backing away cuz that's coming back up any second.
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Lenka Smetanová 6 years ago
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
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Randi Roble 6 years ago
To be fair, there were zero passengers and they gutted the seats to lower the weight on board.
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EpicFangirl 6 years ago
duck: ''please let me in.... ive seen what happened to the others in the engine....''
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Katinka Min 6 years ago
I've done something similar when travelling with handluggage only and there was a really severe weight limit. Hurray for big coat pockets!
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wisdom evee 6 years ago
i would love to see this. every single turn the plane makes and everyone's just like sliding uncontrollably
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tuzdayschild 6 years ago
You can take food. Not juicy stuff like soup, but a sandwich is cool.
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Kevin Donegan 6 years ago
Want to cure racism? Require everyone to travel to a foreign country.
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Wil Vanderheijden 6 years ago
I heard they are planning on skipping that because passengers are opening doors to get some fresh air during flight.
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Mike Skeats 6 years ago
In the event of crashlanding in water, please accept the flotation device with our compliments.
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Human #1,232,867 6 years ago
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...
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wisdom evee 6 years ago
i love radially blurred images cuz they're f*****g hilarious for no reason whatsoever
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Human #1,232,867 6 years ago
Dont' go to China; they are opening the luggage rack when the plane is still taxing..
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Final score:
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Alex Travous 6 years ago
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.
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Lucas 6 years ago
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???
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CrunChewy McSandybutt 6 years ago
Mine is always a tram ride and a quarter-mile jog away from where I am.
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Wil Vanderheijden 6 years ago
Just let them go ahead and join the people standing in the aisle while you sit back down and enjoy a nap.
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European other 6 years ago
Don't complain about drunk passengers if that's what you have given them
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Wil Vanderheijden 6 years ago
No, but if you are the idiot that payed it you are pretty F$#&$# suspicious to me.
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Marcellus the Third 6 years ago
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!
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Alexandru Bucur 6 years ago
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.
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EpicFangirl 6 years ago
* shoots every water droplet* GET EM BOYS- *gets rained on and starts screaming*
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EpicFangirl 6 years ago (edited)
just a little disturbing to see the crash, but i get the joke
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Kaisu 6 years ago
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
Liam Walsh 6 years ago
What does she do? Does she have to constantly explain? Must be really tough for her.
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Felicia Dale 6 years ago
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. :(
tuzdayschild 6 years ago
I used to work for TSA and we didn't care about musical instruments or string unless it was detonator.
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DE Ray 6 years ago
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.
Liam Walsh 6 years ago
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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AzKhaleesi 6 years ago
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.
Kim Lee 6 years ago
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.
Tiari 6 years ago
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.
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Kaisu 6 years ago
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
Liam Walsh 6 years ago
What does she do? Does she have to constantly explain? Must be really tough for her.
Load More Replies... Felicia Dale 6 years ago
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. :(
tuzdayschild 6 years ago
I used to work for TSA and we didn't care about musical instruments or string unless it was detonator.
Load More Replies... DE Ray 6 years ago
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.
Liam Walsh 6 years ago
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... AzKhaleesi 6 years ago
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.
Kim Lee 6 years ago
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.
Tiari 6 years ago
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.
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