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Plane Rant

322 replies

LucyDontLockIt · 29/08/2018 03:27

Why do "special diet" people get all their food about an hour earlier than everyone ekse??

Why don't people think to put their chairs back upright at meal times??

Why do people wait until the passengers finally get moving off the plane before they start getting their shit together in the fucking aisle so nobody can get passed??

Does flying bring out the megabitch in anyone else? I spend hours boiling over with fury on a flight, surely I can't be the only one

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LoniceraJaponica · 31/08/2018 19:00

takeittakeit paying for extra legroom seats isn't ridiculous. Can't you do that? OH always does.

SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 31/08/2018 19:01

I believe that there used to be a direct train from Penzance to Glasgow, that took somewhere approaching 11 hours, though it appears that direct connection is not possible at the moment.

takeittakeit · 31/08/2018 19:03

Long haul flights usually have that little bit of extra leg room which can make all the difference to the lanky legged humans.

Yesterday, flew home, short flight - BA have decreased their seat pitch on some of their newer planes - as reliably told to me by the BA manager sitting beside me!

Woman in front started getting arsey about not being able to recline her seat to her husband. He stood up looked over - saw my knees jammed - ( talking red marks they were that tight and angled because my femora did not fit!!) and turned to his wife and said tough her legs are not going to fit anywhere else - smiled at me and said it really is tight isn't it!!

C'est la vie - it was only 2.5 hrs and a few extra turns in the hold.

takeittakeit · 31/08/2018 19:04

when we can we pay - when the seats are taken - you jsut have to go with the flow!

OliviaStabler · 31/08/2018 19:07

On a flight a few years ago, the chief steward made the standard announcement that no one should get out of their seat until the plane had completely stopped after landing. As soon as the wheels touched the tarmac, one passenger undid his belt and got up and went to open his overheard locker. The booming 'Sit down' that came over the tannoy was enough to make your hair go white. The guy quick sat down Grin

LoniceraJaponica · 31/08/2018 19:08

Unless you have disabilities or are unwell, why would you need to recline a plane seat during a daytime shorthaul flight?

MarthasGinYard · 31/08/2018 19:14

'The booming 'Sit down' that came over the tannoy was enough to make your hair go white. The guy quick sat down '

Always a heads up for pilots to 'test brakes' tooSmile

MisterT373 · 31/08/2018 19:15

BA are currently converting most of their 777 fleet to 3-4-3 which means there will be less width. Their 787 has a 3-3-3 config which has been roundly criticised. JAL fly the 787 in a 2-4-2 config which is much better.

Basically if we want cheap flights we are going to have to get used to being squeezed in.

5000KallaxHoles · 31/08/2018 19:29

I'm sorry but no one can beat the horror of the flight back we've just had (and I hate flying and hate airports at the best of times - I always get randomly picked out for the patdown and explosives swabs of lurve whatever I do/wear/remove and we were flying out of Luton in August which is just the armpit of hell anyway )

Surrounded by an under 11 football team on tour, who'd had a nice plane delay meaning they were sat around waiting with their remaining Euros right beside the sweet and fizzy drink vending machines. Overtired, overbored, on the sugar high to end all sugar high 11 year olds behind, beside, in front being hyped up by the men in charge of their group. Then delayed at the other end by being short on ground staff as well. Nice discussion going on during take off (where I've usually got my eyes closed praying not to die anyway) about plane crashes and how much of a splatter mark we'd all make if it happened as well.

Not blaming the kids - they were kids, on a big trip and on a sugar rush - but bloody hell flight from hell.

Incidentally for the non-seat booker rage dispute threads - we were asked very politely by one of the lads if we'd swap across from the aisle to the window seats so he could sit with his mates - unfortunately this put me right next to the window which makes me flying even worse as I like to be in totally oblivious denial that we're stupid thousand feet up in the air, not "oooh look at the ickle houses" awe and wonder!

takeittakeit · 31/08/2018 19:39

plane rage thread is almost as good as a parking thread!

Who can come up with the most outrageous behaviour story!!!

My elderly mother did her first long haul flight a few years ago - she is fairly liberal and very with it. However, she did point out that the two lovely gentlemen sitting next to her spent more time under the blankets, wanking each other than they did above them.

No amount of insistence from any of us that it was not as it was, when telling us, was going to change her mind. She finally said - spunk and sex smell like spunk and sex what ever age you are - and at 78 I sure as hell know when wanking is going on!!!

DontCallMeCharlotte · 31/08/2018 20:40

I flew Air Portugal (TAP) earlier this year and, as it is considered a budget airline, I was expecting the usual squash and paying a fortune for a cuppa etc. I was not expecting plenty of legroom, free food and wine. It was like the olden days (although not quite Pan Am in the 70s). Pity they only fly to Portugal from London.

Incidentally I don't recline even if the person in front does because (and I guess I'm in the minority here) I actually find it less comfortable.

Andro · 31/08/2018 21:15

takeittakeit - don't hold your breath waiting for ncool to explain what to do with your femurs, I asked her earlier in the thread (my DH has the same issue) and their only suggestion was that he not fly!

Angelil · 31/08/2018 21:19

I have never understood those who leap out of their seats before the seatbelt sign has been switched off at the end of the flight; have you not seen enough Air Crash Investigation to know how incredibly dangerous it is?!

LoniceraJaponica · 31/08/2018 21:21

"I flew Air Portugal (TAP) earlier this year and, as it is considered a budget airline"

Is it?
Isn't it Portugal's national airline, like BA is ours?

KnotsInMay · 31/08/2018 21:53

I did an overnight 11 hour flight recently and everyone reclined their seats. No one caused a scene. The stewards breezily came through the cabin at breakfast and asked people to put their seats up for the meal. But if course the vast majority of people already had. As they had common sense.

scrappydappydoo · 31/08/2018 22:48

We've been on 4 flights where people in the same row have taken my kids meals having not ordered meals for their kids but when the mistake is realised they have already opened the meal and kids scoffed it leaving my (picky eater) kids with an adult meal. I might have forgiven them if they apologized but nope so I made loud and pointed comments Blush

KnotsInMay · 31/08/2018 22:58

Actually the thing that really irritates me on planes is ‘Boxer Chips’ . Is it Easy Jet that sells them? I don’t buy their horrible looking over-priced snacks anyway, but I am so irritated by the name that I wouldn’t be able to bring myself to ask for them.

Is it meant to sound like ‘box of chips ‘? Anyway they are crisps.

onetimeposter · 31/08/2018 23:00

Pmsl knots, such a pedantic rage, ive been like that about stuff you made me howl!

nocoolnamesleft · 31/08/2018 23:06

Andro

I only suggested not flying because it had been suggested I not fly because my disability means I need to use the standard functionality of the seats. If I had what is in most circumstances the advantage of being tall, I would book extra legroom. On the occasion there was none left, an aisle seat. With the disadvantage of constant pain and impaired mobility, there is no scope to book a seat "that will not have someone shoving their knees in my back" I wish there were. And do not try to tell me that the airline would do anything other than tell me that the seats are all intended to recline if I called up in advance to tell them that my seat would have to recline.

I would rejoice at only having to pay "increased legroom space" amount for a "guaranteed to be able to recline to the normally permitted amount" seat.

LoniceraJaponica · 31/08/2018 23:21

nocool can you book seats that are just in front of the emergency exits? That way you wouldn"t have anyone behind you.

partdeux · 31/08/2018 23:27

I'm actually wishing this was my problem when flying!! I would happily have an annoying seat recliner in front, crying babies all around, slow coaches everywhere etc etc if only I could get rid of my fear of flying in exchange!
Any takers?Hmm

KnotsInMay · 31/08/2018 23:29

onetime Grin

DontCallMeCharlotte · 31/08/2018 23:38

Isn't it Portugal's national airline, like BA is ours?

Yes. And like Aer Lingus is Ireland's and Icelandair is, er, Iceland's but Aer Lingus and Icelandair class themselves as no frills now and BA is going that way too - for short haul anyway. So as TAP was very well priced, I was expecting much the same but was very pleasantly surprised. Much much better than BA these days.

nocoolnamesleft · 31/08/2018 23:57

Lonicera

Good idea. Next time, I'll look. Last two flights the bulk head was annoyingly in front of the ones that were clearly labelled on the seat booking plan.

OliviaStabler · 01/09/2018 06:40

SeatGuru is a good website for choosing which seat would suit you best. They tell you which seats to avoid, which have more legroom etc.