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To think people should think before they get on a plane

218 replies

AndSpinAround · 07/08/2018 09:08

Yeah yeah I know some people are scared of flying, but right now I have no sympathy.

Yesterday DH was on a 7pm flight from London to Barcelona. We live in the outskirts of Barcelona.

Everyone got on the flight then one woman decided she didn't want to fly after all. She got off the plane. This means that everyones hand baggage has to be rechecked. Then just as they are about to go. Another woman decides she is scared and wants her and her family off the plane. The second woman had hold baggage so that had to be taken off, then all hand baggage checked again. Because of this the runway slot had been missed so they had to wait again.
The plane landed after midnight.

The last train for DH to get home leave Barcelona centre at 11.55. The flight was due to get in at 10.20, no problem. Because of these two he had to get a taxi to another part of Barcelona, then a night bus. He got home just after 2.30am.

He's knackered and can't work today.

These two woman should have thought before they got on the fucking plane.

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ProfessorMoody · 07/08/2018 13:11

Anxiety seems to be a fairly new thing

Ah. One of them.

Bombardier25966 · 07/08/2018 13:11

And for those saying people prone to anxiety should not fly, does that include the OP? Their anxiety is so severe that on occasion her husband has had to call an ambulance.

Is she in fact moaning about people just like herself?

PolkerrisBeach · 07/08/2018 13:15

Are people really saying that people with anxiety shouldn't fly? Or more likely, that people with anxiety should be self-aware, recognise that they have issues and take steps to address those issues BEFORE boarding a plane and inconveniencing 200 other people?

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JoanneMumsnet · 07/08/2018 13:21

Hi there,

As you can see, we've deleted quite a few posts on this thread which we felt were disablist and therefore breaking our Talk Guidelines.

There's plenty of information on the Mind website about anxiety and panic attacks and the impact they can have on people's lives.

We'd be really grateful if people could take a look and bear this in mind when posting.

Many thanks.

Motherhood101Fail · 07/08/2018 13:23

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ProfessorMoody · 07/08/2018 13:37

And my main beef with flying anxiety sufferers is their lack of logical deduction or attention to statistics. It's overwhelmingly likely that all will be fine

Well bloody hell. If only I'd known this before spending two years of my life being too terrified to set foot out of my bed in case I died. Where were you, Motherhood101, to tell my messed up brain chemicals that I would be FINE? I could have easily "just buggered on" if all the specialist clinical psychologists and mental health teams had told me I would be fine! I could have saved thousands of pounds of private therapy!

Are you also getting ready to tell cancer patients that there is no need for chemo, as they'll be FINE?

PurpleDaisies · 07/08/2018 13:44

And my main beef with flying anxiety sufferers is their lack of logical deduction or attention to statistics.

hits head against a wall.

You do know anxiety isn’t a rational, logical thing? Biscuit

PurpleDaisies · 07/08/2018 13:45

I have flown on planes with bullet holes, scores of Aeroflot flights (hairy!), multiple flights with airlines that are not permitted to land in Europe, planes with bits that fell off in flight (inside and out), planes on which one engine failed (once!), planes on which oxygen masks dropped (twice!) and somehow I am still buggering on.

What do you want, a medal?

SugarIsAmazing · 07/08/2018 13:50

But to delay several hundred of people and fuck with an airline operations because you can't sort your shit out... is totally unreasonable.

Maybe airlines should start collating the names of people who disrupt flights and insist they are insured to cover the cost of future disruptions.

You call ambulances for your anxiety attacks - despite it being entirely medically unnecessary and a completely inappropriate misuse of resources - but berate these women for inconveniencing your lazy husband? Oh my.

All of these ^

PurpleDaisies · 07/08/2018 13:54

But to delay several hundred of people and fuck with an airline operations because you can't sort your shit out... is totally unreasonable.

Having an anxiety attack is the same as “not being able to sort your shot out”? Hmm

SugarIsAmazing · 07/08/2018 13:54

@ProfessorMoody

How the actual fuck can you compare someone panicking on a plane to a person battling Cancer??? Angry
What about if someone on the plane was visiting a dying relative with Cancer or had Cancer themselves and could do without the stress of delays, but they have to suck it up because obviously the person with Anxiety Hmm has more important issues!

Mookatron · 07/08/2018 14:00

This thread is HIDEOUS. It's like a chunky stream of hate-vomit. Will you listen to yourselves. You're taking about real people with debilitating conditions.

ProfessorMoody · 07/08/2018 14:00

How the actual fuck can you compare someone panicking on a plane to a person battling Cancer

Didn't really compare them though, did I? Didn't strike up similarities between the two. Merely used one as an example of a physical illness, the same as I used epilepsy and a heart condition.

Both cancer and mental illness are illnesses, though. They're both debilitating and both may lead to death. Both require treatment. Both are very hard to live with. One is taken seriously and one isn't. There's your comparison.

MarthaArthur · 07/08/2018 14:06

I have flown on planes with bullet holes, scores of Aeroflot flights (hairy!), multiple flights with airlines that are not permitted to land in Europe, planes with bits that fell off in flight (inside and out), planes on which one engine failed (once!), planes on which oxygen masks dropped (twice!) and somehow I am still buggering on.

If I wasnt scared of flying before then I damn well am niw. Fuck it i would ground a flight to get off.

sadsac1 · 07/08/2018 14:21

I have left a plane due to an anxiety attack. No one had their hand baggage rechecked. I know for a fact as I left family
On there and they confirmed they just got going after I got off!

FlatPackFurnitureCompAnyone · 07/08/2018 16:06

And my main beef with flying anxiety sufferers is their lack of logical deduction or attention to statistics. It's overwhelmingly likely that all will be fine.

GrinGrin TBH I find this incredibly amusing as it shows your complete and utter ignorance of anxiety disorders (not to mention the phenomenon of terrorism and why it is effective).

I have social anxiety (under control thanks to effective treatment), I was well aware that there was no realistic logical basis for it which is exactly why I went to the fucking
GP when it started to make my life really unhappy. Talking to people never killed anyone as far as I am aware, but I couldn’t just logic myself out of it. Because it’s a fucking psychological problem Hmm

taratill · 07/08/2018 16:17

this thread is hideous, it hightlights entirely how little understanding many people have of mental health disorders and how debilitating they can be.

I actually can't believe that someone has suggested that reading statistics might be the answer Shock

Selfcentredbigot · 07/08/2018 17:41

Tbf that particular comment was from the self styled Bear Grylls Of The Open Skies so perhaps best not to expect a considered/intelligent response.

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