Share your inconsiderate people on planes tales…

[LittleTalkingMan]

I flew today for the first time since lockdown and I think I can safely say that lockdown has definitely made people less considerate of others.

We had a kid with a slide whistle. Both parents had headphones on!!

And a father and son who kept play fighting behind us. Why do grown ass dads insist on riling up kids play fighting!

I had the total perfect hand of nightmare travellers last time I flew (it was Ryan air tbf, but that was the only option from the small rural airport nearest to our holiday accommodation.
i had the arguing couple, the screaming, filled nappy baby, the toddler watching peppa pig without earphones, and then quite sadly a lovely young lad who was leaving his mum from a different very civilised country and coming to live with his dad in the shittiest area of our local big city. Poor sod.

This child has no chance in life 🤦🏼‍♀️

I don't think you can expect people not to recline.

If it's such an issue for you then pay for an extra legroom seat or upgrade.

I’ll never forget one particular flight, wedged between one man who clearly had some quite extreme digestive issues and was farting non stop and another who spent the entire flight scrolling through porn on his phone. It was pure hell!

Unfortunately this was only a short British Airways domestic flight - the only real difference between first and economy is a little curtain and a tray in the middle seat space 🤣 Very glad to say that we weren’t the ones paying for it!

A woman sat in front of me, extra leg room, no seats in front of her, I was in a middle seat behind her sat inbetween two big guys.
The woman in front decides to recline her seat back, fine…. but she didn’t put it back up when the food came round. I was a lot younger (early 20s) & didn’t say anything at first, but eventually plucked up the courage to ask her if she could put her seat up whilst I was eating - she just gave me a dirty look , put some headphones on and ignored me.

I felt a bit embarrassed so just left it….
I did, however ‘accidentally’ bang the back of her chair a few times as well as bump the back of the headrest when I got up to use the toilet, she was sleeping at the time & it woke her up.

Petty but satisfying all the same.

The woman who contorted and clipped her toenails sat at her seat - bits flying everywhere (ages ago when nail clippers were allowed).

My 8 week old baby who farted incessantly on a 6 hour flight. Both loud and smelly. I swear everyone thought we were just cropdusting the whole plane. Horrendous and mortifying. No more broccoli while breastfeeding after that!

The two twenty somethings who sat in front of on a flight back from Italy, one of them had shit himself.
Not sure which one, they were both clearly hanging.
The smell was dreadful, a poor Italian lady was sat next to them.

I was but a country mouse of a teenager and flying London to Singapore on my own. For some nuts reason, the check in lady parked me between two adult men. They were also quite large. Fine she doesn't know their physical size.

Anyhoo, there was I, on my period, stuck in the centre seat on a night flight, too timid to go to the bathroom and wake one guy up and also panicking I was leaking through...on a 13 hour flight.

Not all men and blah blah blah, but wtf parks a teenage girl travelling solo between two men on a night flight?!

Superb😂

I had that on a flight back from Turkey with a crustie couple sat in the row behind me. The boyfriend sat in the middle seat while the girlfriend in the window seat placed her head on his lap and then propped her feet up in the gap between my head rest and the window. Her feet were disgustingly smelly and dirty and inches from my face. They were there for about three seconds.

Glad I don't fly very much reading these! WHY would you take your shoes off on the plane fgs.
We were literally taxiing to take off from Schipol on Sunday, the cbin crew had been instructed to take their seats, and some drunk bloke stood up and set off down the aisle!
The cabin crew man literally boomed 'Sir, Please take your seat. Sir, sit DOWN!"

We had something similar when we were going from JFK to Barbados. My son was at the time around 6'4" and a no8 so built like a brick outhouse, the bloke in front reclined onto DS' knees so DS shoved his knees into the back of the seat, the bloke eventually put his seat into sitting position for a bit and then reclined again so once again DS kneed the back of the chair. The bloke then turned around obviously to say something until he saw the size of DS and that was the last time he reclined.

On most planes this wouldn't have been a problem but I've never flown in such small legroom seats. My knees just about touched the seat in front.

And restaurants, too. So bloody selfish and entitled. No, I don't want to listen to Peppa Pig on repeat whilst I'm paying to eat here.

On a night flight returning to the UK from the US. Soon after take off I noticed the business man in the seat in front took off his shoes and placed them in my footwell so I couldn't stretch out properly.

I was livid so just kicked them into the aisle. By the time we landed his shoes were no where to be seen. I just glared at him!

Flight from Germany to Serbia on Ryanair. A couple changed their baby’s nappy IN THEIR SEATS. They used two tray tables as a makeshift changing table. The smell was unreal - people were choking and retching - and I have always antibacterial wiped my seat and tray table ever since.

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I think There’s nothing wrong with reclining seats when the seatbelt sign goes off especially if its long haul flight. If you are tall please booked seats with extra legroom.

I dont understand complaining about reclining seat. I am frequent ultra long haul flight. My hometown its 18 hours flight from UK and i go back home once or twice a year. Everyone recline their seat except for mealtimes. I really dont have any idea people find it annoying to recline seat. I cant imagine 18 hours flight with straight as hell airplane seats 😅

I have no idea what the issue is with reclining seats. Blame the airline for the tiny amount of room but if the seat reclines, why can't I recline it. Everyone else can also recline it. Or pay 3k in business.

Actually your DH is awful

An idiot with a heart condition who needed to take time critical medication every x amount of hours. He packed his life preserving medication in his suitcase which was put in the hold. Now I know he’d done this on purpose and not accidentally as we were staying at the same hotel with him and his wife in Tenerife, and we HEARD the conversation on the transfer bus between him and his wife whether he should keep the medication on him. After being kicked out of our rooms at 10am, sat in the hotel just waiting for the bus that was at 6pm, an almost 2 hour transfer and arriving at the airport for our flights 4 hours early, plus the 4 and a half hour flight finally landing in Manchester around 5am with a toddler and a baby. We were told we weren’t allowed off the plane as this man was having a medial episode due to not taking his medication, and we needed to keep the aisle clear for the paramedics to arrive and treat him and get him off first. I don’t even know what time we were eventually let off. Now I know he didn’t mean to have a heart attack, but he was practically asking for that to happen 🤦🏼‍♀️

I feel awful for saying this and I've never said it out loud

I was on the way back from turkey and I was wedged between two large men. One was extremely hairy and very sweaty. They lifted the arm rests up to make it more comfortable for each other so I was a sandwich.

The hairy man's arm hairs kept touching me, tickling my arm. They also smelt of body odour and day old booze and fags (if you know the smell) awful!

They were so nice that I feel guilty even writing this but that's the worst flight I have ever been on.

British Airways

Irrate middle class behaviour due to chair reclining.

I fly on 6-8 flights a year..all budget airlines from dominican republic to toronto and back. I always pay extra and book an aisle seat because of a bowel surgery that means if i need to get to the bathroom, I need it right away and do not want to disturb anyone. Last flight 7 weeks ago.. a gentleman was in the middle seat and asked If I would change with his girlfriend, only two rows away.. I asked what seat. Had it been aisle I would have changed no problem. It was window. I said no. I explained why I needed and paid to preselect aisle. He was an ass to me the rest of the trip. Uggh. Thank god for headphones.