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Plane Rant

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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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Westworldmaeve · 29/08/2018 08:18

And yes, people who don't sort their liquids before they get to security and hold everyone up.

Most of my hand luggage is my liquid insulin that I have to take by hand luggage. If I go to australia for two months then it isn't just one little bag but a bit more for me to sort out at security. I also have to declare it seperately from other stuff. I also have to declare my electronics in a seperate tray, and I need a third tray for the rest of my hand luggage and sometimes they want my jacket and shoes seperately on a fourth tray. It annoys me as well but I didn't ask for all these security measures. I tend to hold up the line but I try to work as fast as I can.

You do realise that the plane still takes off at the same time? You don't get an earlier plane if you get through security quicker.

OneStepSideways · 29/08/2018 08:18

Oh and seat reclining on a short daytime flight is very rude! Someone tried to do it to me last week, so I jammed my knees against his seat to prevent it reclining. He called the air hostess thinking it was broken and she told him to keep it upright 😂

Westworldmaeve · 29/08/2018 08:20

But what if the seat recliner came from the other side of the world? It isn't a daytime flight for everyone.

Westworldmaeve · 29/08/2018 08:22

I feel that if you fly shorthaul you should just suck it up. Any flight under seven hours is super short anyway. Try a canada-new zealand flight, or a london- australia. You might understand where people are coming from.

Westworldmaeve · 29/08/2018 08:24

I also feel that anti- seat recliners should just pay extra for an energency seat. You are within your tights to recline a seat, you know tgat peopke will do that so why not pay the little bit extra? Dh and I are big people, we also tend to not book the cheapest flight but choose companies that have wider seats.

Gersemi · 29/08/2018 08:24

Why do people sit chatting until the queue starts moving, then jump up and stop it?

Because they've had the sense to realise that there is literally no point in getting up and standing in a queue until the doors are actually open?

OneStepSideways · 29/08/2018 08:25

The fuck faces who repack al their shit after security on the belt rather than moving to a table, and THEN leave their tray rather than putting it in the tray collection spot really fuck me off

Oops I did that last week! But I had 3 sets of handluggage, a buggy, a car seat and a toddler clinging to my leg (DH had been taken off to a different queue as he'd failed the first metal detector). There was no way I could move 7 trays by myself, so I repacked them on the belt.

Pinkyyy · 29/08/2018 08:27

Oh and seat reclining on a short daytime flight is very rude! Someone tried to do it to me last week, so I jammed my knees against his seat to prevent it reclining

How rude of you, you could have simply reclined your own seat. Why should someone suffer extra discomfort purely because you wanted to be awkward.

OneStepSideways · 29/08/2018 08:28

But what if the seat recliner came from the other side of the world? It isn't a daytime flight for everyone

Nap sitting up? I've done it on daytime flights. Just because it's night time for you doesn't make it ok to crush the person behind you (who is trying to read/eat/watch a film). I wouldn't dare recline on a day flight even if I was exhausted!

MimiSunshine · 29/08/2018 08:30

Being on a plane just brings out the most selfish side of a lot of people.

I was once on a connecting long haul flight. A delay in taking off meant we were at risk of missing our connection home, the cabin crew made an announcement for us just as we came in to land to say there were a couple of passengers with a connection out of the country to make and could everyone completing their journey here please remain seated.

Well, I swear to god that may as well have been a ‘ready, set, GO’. The entire plane load of passengers unbuckled at the exact same second and jumped out of their seats to stand in the aisle.

I could have cried and we were still stuck on the plane (at the back of the cabin) when we saw our next flight leave without us.

OneStepSideways · 29/08/2018 08:32

How rude of you, you could have simply reclined your own seat. Why should someone suffer extra discomfort purely because you wanted to be awkward

Because it was a daytime short haul flight! Even the air hostess told him to put it upright, as if it's frowned upon. On a long haul flight you have more legroom and on night flights everyone reclines when the lights dim, so nobody gets claustrophobic or squashed.

ChardonnaysPrettySister · 29/08/2018 08:33

Whoever designed those reclining seats deserves their own in hell.

Pinkyyy · 29/08/2018 08:34

I think it's selfish to purposely go out of your way to cause someone discomfort. I recline on any and all flights and will not cause myself even more back pain because someone thinks it's 'frowned upon'

Igneococcus · 29/08/2018 08:34

I'm a pretty relaxed flyer usually but Edinburgh airport security since the refurbishement gives me the rage just thinking of it. Who designed that, and were they trying to make it as awkward as possible? But even worse than the design, on a flight in July, the woman I was sitting next to on the plane, her husband had his asthma inhaler taken off him. What an absolutely shitty thing to do.

SerenDippitty · 29/08/2018 08:36

We never travel hand luggage only and are quite happy to sit and wait for the aisles to clear a bit before we get up.

OneStepSideways · 29/08/2018 08:37

Because they've had the sense to realise that there is literally no point in getting up and standing in a queue until the doors are actually open?

But they're effectively pushing into the queue when it's moving and holding it up! If you sit down instead of getting up and getting your stuff out, you wait until all the people standing have got off. If you don't want to wait, get up and gather your stuff before the doors open. Lots of people will be rushing to make connecting flights (we usually travel with just hand luggage to save waiting at the carousel).

whoaskedyou · 29/08/2018 08:37

I recall a mad scramble to get off a flight in Moscow. I was wondering why everyone was in such a rush but I realised when we got to passport control. It was a bunfight and the sensible ones were at the front of the queue avoiding the scrum. Fists flew - literally.

SerenDippitty · 29/08/2018 08:39

MimiSunshine that’s awful. What is wrong with people?

BluthsFrozenBananas · 29/08/2018 08:41

If you want to eat first there’s nothing stopping you ordering a vegan/kosher/gluten free meal before you leave.

colditz · 29/08/2018 08:42

The simple issue is that we're all territorial mammals forced too close together.

OneStepSideways · 29/08/2018 08:44

I think it's selfish to purposely go out of your way to cause someone discomfort. I recline on any and all flights and will not cause myself even more back pain because someone thinks it's 'frowned upon'

But you're purposely causing pain and discomfort to the person behind you! It's horribly painful to have someone's seat jammed against your knees, especially when they wriggle or keep shifting position.
It's actually quite easy to stop them reclining, if you refuse to move your knees and push back against their seat it can't go anywhere.

Westworldmaeve · 29/08/2018 08:44

Nap sitting up?

I can't. And after a 30 hour travel I don't want to. I am within my rights to recline a reclinable seat.

Igneococcus · 29/08/2018 08:46

Lots of people will be rushing to make connecting flights

I've had this on a recent flight. The flight was delayed and some people had very tight connections because of it, in the evening too, so some people might have got stuck overnight. I wonder why the captain didn't ask for those people to be let off first. There were people pushing through the packed aisle. Would have been so much easier if everybody whose trip ended there would have stayed in their seat for a few minutes.

AglassOfWine · 29/08/2018 08:46

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

Not sure, would be nice to get food all at the same time, but I guess there's a reason.

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

Maybe there are sleeping kids, maybe the chair isn't working properly, maybe they have other things on their mind

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??

Because they new to wait until people have moved so they can reach their bags from the overhead lockers without bonking people on the head!!!

Does flying bring out the megabitch in anyone else?

Not me! I love flying! With 2 small DC we tend to wait til everyone if off the plane before we faff about getting our bags etc.. then we enjoy our stroll out to customs etc... no rush. I always allow loads of time at each end to make sure we don't feel rushed and stressed!

I spend hours boiling over with fury on a flight

Why? Chill! Just ignore everyone else! Be last to get on the plane, last to get off, allow yourself lots of time so you don't feel rushed. Bring some books and CDs/DVDs to keep you occupied and prevent ruminating on everyone else..

surely I can't be the only one

Probably not

Pinkyyy · 29/08/2018 08:48

If it caused so much pain and discomfort then the seats wouldn't be able to recline. The fact that you think it's fine to jam your knees into a seat in a bid toprevent causing yourself pain is actually laughable. I don't wriggle around, I recline and sleep for most of the flight.

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