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Should airlines start including etiquette brochures next to the safety cards in seat?
Last year Expedia did a travel etiquite survey to find what annoys the flying public in regards to thier seat mates. The suggestions is there are other things more annoying that the carry-on sherpas and that airlines need to have a set of etiquite rules to make your flight more enjoyable.
Below is a sample of the responses Expedia got.
What are yours?
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1. Seat kickers. About 67% of respondents said the people who surprise-wallop from behind are the most obnoxious of all ill-mannered passengers.
2. Inattentive parents. The kids are screaming, the parents are on Ambien. In 2013, checked-out guardians took the top spot on this list.
3. “Aromatic” passengers. A tight space is no place for body odor.
4. The audio insensitive. Headphones on, self-awareness off.
I was on a red eye flight coming back to Calgary in the fall. Fat old guy and his fat old wife behind me. They each had to pee about 12 times in the span of 4 1/2 hours. Each time they got up the fat old guy would grab my seat (aisle) to hoist himself to stand up. Sometimes from the side, sometimes from the head rest. My seat would go back in a jolt each time he pulled his lard up.
Couldn't believe it.
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I am definitely number 5. I am scared ####less of flying, so I need to get at least 5 drinks into me before I get onto the plane, though I am no means a rowdy drunk on the plane, I just sit there quietly, watching movies on my laptop and my headphones on. Just feel bad though for people sitting beside me if its a long flight because I too also need to sit in the window seat (weird I know), because I have to see what is going on outside of the plane so once the seal is broken... Well, you can expect me to get up a few more times than normal.
I think one of the most arrogant things you can do on a plane is recline your seat. So many people have done it to me and it's incredibly annoying. I'm over 6 ft tall so I I'm likely more sensitive about it, especially when they are much shorter.
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I think one of the most arrogant things you can do on a plane is recline your seat. So many people have done it to me and it's incredibly annoying. I'm over 6 ft tall so I I'm likely more sensitive about it, especially when they are much shorter.
I would like the airlines to remove the reclining features on seats.
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A women seated next to me munched on some type of garlic Caesar salad for over One hour on a flight I was on. I don't know why she ate it so slowly, it just extended the stink time for everyone. It was like a punch to face. No respect for anyone else around her.
- Feet on the arm rest in front of you is disgusting. My elbow should never touch your feet.
- Clipping your toenails in flight should be punishable by death.
- Going to the lav without shoes is gross (admittingly, us guys miss the toilet at the best of times, imagine how often it happens in turbulence) Sadly, many people don't comprehend this.
- People who don't clean up after their kids. Especially vomit, and double especially if its vomit in the non mesh seat pocket. (more of a crew member rant, but it's nasty, and it happens)
- People who don't realize that he who sits in the middle is entitled to both arm rests.
- Grabbing the seat in front of you, like MMF said, is a horrible one too and many people just don't realize how ignorant it is.
- I know most airports have a Subway for a food option. If you get it, awesome. But skip the freaking onions! They make the entire plane smell like BO
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- Feet on the arm rest in front of you is disgusting. My elbow should never touch your feet.
- Clipping your toenails in flight should be punishable by death.
- Going to the lav without shoes is gross (admittingly, us guys miss the toilet at the best of times, imagine how often it happens in turbulence) Sadly, many people don't comprehend this.
- People who don't clean up after their kids. Especially vomit, and double especially if its vomit in the non mesh seat pocket. (more of a crew member rant, but it's nasty, and it happens) - People who don't realize that he who sits in the middle is entitled to both arm rests.
- Grabbing the seat in front of you, like MMF said, is a horrible one too and many people just don't realize how ignorant it is.
- I know most airports have a Subway for a food option. If you get it, awesome. But skip the freaking onions! They make the entire plane smell like BO
I don't agree with that at all, in fact I was just going to post that the thing that annoys me the most are people who refuse to share arm rests. I mean, its pretty simple, one person takes the back half the other the front half. People who refuse to share make me very angry and usually result in me having an arm rest war with that person for the remainder of the flight.
Just because someone was too lazy/cheap to book a seat in advance and/or likes the middle and/or has chosen to sit there to sit beside a partner/friend, does not mean they deserve twice as many arm rests as the other passengers, IMO.
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I don't agree with that at all, in fact I was just going to post that the thing that annoys me the most are people who refuse to share arm rests. I mean, its pretty simple, one person takes the back half the other the front half. People who refuse to share make me very angry and usually result in me having an arm rest war with that person for the remainder of the flight.
Just because someone was too lazy/cheap to book a seat in advance and/or likes the middle and/or has chosen to sit there to sit beside a partner/friend, does not mean they deserve twice as many arm rests as the other passengers, IMO.
I agree with the op. Guy in the middle has nowhere to go, he should get the arm rests. The other two can lean to the other armrests.
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I agree with the op. Guy in the middle has nowhere to go, he should get the arm rests. The other two can lean to the other armrests.
I know this is dickish, but I honestly couldn't care less. "Share your arm rest with me or I will take the entire thing" is my basic philosophy when flying.
Edit: To clarify, I'm saying I couldn't care less about the person having nowhere to go, not your opinion.
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I usually don't shower for a week before my flight and stuff my face with onions. That way I can lay across all three seats and sleep in my boxers, cause no one will sit with me.
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Was just on a flight down to Vegas on Allegiant. Seats didn't seem to recline from what I could tell.
Anyways, kid behind me lowered his tray table and used it to rest his head and arms on while he slept. Every fricken time he moved (which was about every 4 or 5 seconds) it felt like someone kicking the back of my seat.
I don't agree with that at all, in fact I was just going to post that the thing that annoys me the most are people who refuse to share arm rests. I mean, its pretty simple, one person takes the back half the other the front half. People who refuse to share make me very angry and usually result in me having an arm rest war with that person for the remainder of the flight.
Just because someone was too lazy/cheap to book a seat in advance and/or likes the middle and/or has chosen to sit there to sit beside a partner/friend, does not mean they deserve twice as many arm rests as the other passengers, IMO.
Unlike the passengers in the aisle or window seats, whoever's in the middle seat has no room to stretch their feet or rest their head.
In our opinion, it's only fair to yield them both of the armrests. In 2011, the Wall Street Journal asked a panel of six experts to weigh in: five agreed with our take.
Who Gets the Armrest on the Plane?
The fact is, those armrests are so narrow they're barely enough for one person. In a row with three seats across, the passenger in the middle seat has it tough enough, so let that person have both and just keep one for yourself.
Was just on a flight down to Vegas on Allegiant. Seats didn't seem to recline from what I could tell.
Anyways, kid behind me lowered his tray table and used it to rest his head and arms on while he slept. Every fricken time he moved (which was about every 4 or 5 seconds) it felt like someone kicking the back of my seat.
Thank goodness it was just a short 2 hour flight.
God damn that's like 1400 times, how did you not powerbomb the kid?
I was on a red eye flight coming back to Calgary in the fall. Fat old guy and his fat old wife behind me. They each had to pee about 12 times in the span of 4 1/2 hours. Each time they got up the fat old guy would grab my seat (aisle) to hoist himself to stand up. Sometimes from the side, sometimes from the head rest. My seat would go back in a jolt each time he pulled his lard up.
Couldn't believe it.
This drives me nuts. I truly believe people don't really need to pee, they just want to go into the bathroom for something to do. I piss before I get on the plane, and unless it's a 6 hour or longer flight, I cannot recall the last time I have used an airplane washroom. Maybe twice in my life.
I had a scenario like this on a flight to Maui. I always take the aisle, because my knee is ultra gibbled, and after 5 hours, if I can't straighten it every 20 minutes or so, it locks up. So the aisle lets me do that without having to get up and stretch therefore pissing off whoever I am sitting next to. Anyway, window seat dude, is on his fourth trip to the can and we aren't even halfway there. I have to get up, listen to his fat faced heavy breathing, and inhale his old man stench each time. I finally ask him if he wants the aisle, and I'll take the window, even though the window seat means I won't be able to walk properly for an hour after the flight. He says "Is it so hard to have the common courtesy to get up and let me use the washroom?"
I wanted to punch him in that stupid, red, bulbous, old man alcoholic nose so bad. I am offering this idiot a courtesy by giving him the aisle seat so he doesn't have to keep crawling over everyone, and he turns it around like I am the selfish dick, when it is going to cause me the discomfort by taking the window.
Should airlines start including etiquette brochures next to the safety cards in seat?
