I've been away, and won't read 24 pages here, but has their been any discussion of the psychological affects of travelling that can lead to these situations? It is amazing how quickly you can lose rational thinking after travelling for 20 hours, dealing with airports, security, lines, crappy food, etc.
I just came home from Cuba, and the woman in front of us o the plane may have just been a crusty bitch, as we had only spent 3 hours in the airport and 45 minutes on the bus, but wow. The plane was delayed 45 whole minutes. Travesty, right? Well we were also the last row to get fed, and by the time they got to her they were out of sandwiches(which is a discussion for another time-this shouldn't happen). Well this women starts going off on the poor flight attendant who has had the same disappointed passengers for 10 rows, and is offering her a free snack box(which is probably more food that the sandwich) then gets into the flight being late and missing connections in Vancouver.
Later she went after her again because they would have to pickup their bags at customs before continuing on, like somehow the flight attendant was setting border policy. I thought her head was going to explode when they announced a passenger was gravely ill and the paramedics would need to board the plane to help the poor guy off before any passengers could de-plane.
Travelling can be very stressful on some people, and I'm not psychologist, but I would guess that threatening removal by force to a stressed out person who already feels like there is nothing left to lose and they are in the right(which they are) is going to result in a stubborn response. It would be an interesting area to study, anyway. How travel stresses can turn normal individuals into irrational people.
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