Annoying people in the airport/plane

[PolkaDotMankini]

I bloody hate early flights. I don't have the patience to deal with people that early in the morning. This morning's experience included:

• People walking really slowly in groups through the airport, so no one else could get round them, stopping dead every so often to consult with each other about where to get breakfast
• The people sitting behind me on the plane talking the entire way, including through the safety briefing
• The person playing crappy music on their phone speaker
• The person whistling on the plane. Whistling FFS

Only an hour-long flight and I can get off now, thank goodness.

It was the person doing disgusting farts in front of me on a long haul flight that really pissed me off. And they were giggling about it.

Add to the list
The toddler kicking the back of your seat for the duration of the flight despite you giving the Paddington Bear stare/asking them to stop. Making you feel like your next step would be to grab their feet, lift them upside down and hand them to a stewardess for disposal.

Kicking children get a polite telling off from me.

Today there was also the man sat in my seat because, and I quote, he couldn't be bothered to look at his boarding pass so had just guessed from memory. Piss off.

Wheely luggage grrrr!!!

Sorry but I'm at entitled man too important to use his eyes! What did you say to him?

Worst flight I was ever one was the one when I looked down at dd 5 months and saw spots literally appearing before my eyes.. Got home and dc had chicken pox...mil hadn't wanted to tell us and spoil our trip..
I kept a blanket over her until we got out of the airport!

The man with the seriously stinky feet who was sitting behind me on a recent 14hr flight from Singapore!

I hate people in airports and on planes, I can empathise OP. Seen people drunk, husbands and wives arguing, people that haven’t pre-booked their seats refusing to sit down asking people to move etc.

I know reclining is controversial, but I could have murdered the woman in front of me who reclined the entire 8 hour flight despite already having extra leg room as she was by the door.

I got a terrible headache as the tv screen was then so close to my face. It was awful.

The only thing worse than early flights is flights later in the day. So I generally grit my teeth and do the 4am wake-up thing because going later is invariably worse.

I’m always fascinated by the airport-specific permissioning that goes on. No other time is it acceptable to get on the lagers at six in the morning. Except when you’re going on holiday.

I smiled in an irritated way while he moved to the row infront to irritate the next person.

I wouldn't have put up with any of those. A simple 'excuse me' would suffice.
Or call over air-stewardess, during safety.

" talking all through ( the 1 hour ) flight".
Hilarious picky of you.

I know, but they were loud and I was tired and I actually do listen to the safety briefing, even though I'm a frequent flyer.

People who hold everybody else up when boarding, while they so-fussily stow all their wretched pieces of hand baggage.

People who take forever in the loo when there’s a queue with its legs crossed halfway up the cabin.

People who allow their horrible children to endlessly kick the back of your seat, after you’ve asked them (nicely) more than once, to please stop it.

Was on a late night 5 hour flight.
Morbidly obese man in front of me reclined his seat for the duration while I breathed in the stench of his manky scalp.

Woman in my seat refusing to move because she wanted to sit next to her adult son. Yes, I wanted to sit next to my adult daughter too which is why I pre booked the seats.

People who spend forever faffing about putting their carry on in the overhead lockers, then invariably want to get something out of their bag thirty seconds later.

Adults who have no idea how airports work are irritating amateurs. I fly most months and their aimless milling around makes me want to scream.

I've been lucky to have had many wonderful holidays abroad pre pandemic, and I'm not in any hurry to go on any more because from the sounds of it in the last few years people have become more rude and entitled than ever!

Agree about slow walkers, when they are able bodied.

I’m going to add the bellend who thumped his seat into recline during food service so DH ended up wearing his dinner and a glass of wine. No apology, just ignored us when we asked what the hell he thought he was doing.

We had the kicking kids plus the weak whinny mother trying to bribe darling kK with extra muffin if he will please stop kicking our seat for the four hour flight. And then we got the same family on the return journey behind us

The only thing worse than early flights is flights later in the day. So I generally grit my teeth and do the 4am wake-up thing because going later is invariably worse.

@Knullrufs Is that true? If so, I'll cut my husband some slack. We always have to get the earliest flight because he hates missing out on any part of the first day. He gets it from his mum. He won't admit that though.

He lies and says all the other flights were taken. I could book the flights myself but it's not worth the sighing about all the things we could be doing at our destination especially since I guess that if there are any delays, the later flights are going to suffer worse from the knock-on effects and I couldn't take that whining.

We frequently find the room isn't ready, which he huffs about and again, it's not worth mentioning that he knew check-in was at midday and it's only just 11am. So we kill some time with an early lunch, which is nice but it would be nicer to get changed out of the clothes you've been travelling in, which might be too warm for the place you've travelled to, and put a bit of make up on and eat in a restaurant that's pleasantly busy rather than one where you're waiting for the staff to open the door and finish laying the tables.

What I do is wash before I go to bed - the only time I'd ever do that, because at 4am I can't function enough to get in the shower - put my clothes on and leave in 15 minutes. The pact is that he does everything so I can just stumble out of the door. He's okay with this because he is a control freak and loves arranging transport to the airport, check-in, security, boarding etc. I always lie when they ask: "Could anyone have put anything in your case without your knowledge." Of course he did. While I'm sleeping he thinks of loads of stuff we should take just in case. But it's not a bad lie because I know he won't have put a bomb or half a kilo of heroin in there.

I have to say in his defence that he is extremely well-behaved and impeccably organised at the airport so he will definitely not annoy anyone.

@limitedperiodonly I think so, yeah. Insufferable though airports generally are, they’re slightly better with fewer people in.

Later-in-the-day flights are more liable to be cancelled or massively delayed (in my experience anyway).

And getting through security is generally easier.

Oh the poor man. I hope you let him have your seat and immediately got him a coffee

People behind you who haul themselves out of their seat by grabbing your headrest and your hair while you are trying to sleep. The woman from Rome who complained to the flight attendant that I had the last strawberry yogurt and she had to make do with raspberry. I gave it to her. The man next to me when I was travelling solo to Los Angeles who assumed he was in, because well, it's a woman travelling alone and sitting next to him and what else is there to do?