Most annoying habits of airline passengers

[shortyj 0]

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Based on your profile are you Delta out of IND?

I am based in IND I fly both Delta and United

Playtime is essential.

[OHCHUTE 0]

No one jumped up to get off. The lady was on her cell, fumbling wiith her purse, and the big bag of mostly eaten food while trying to get her bag. YES HELP THE LADY NOT BY GETTING HER BAG DOWN BUT ADVISE THE LADY TO PUT MORE HANDS TO THE TASK BY HANGING UP the PHONE AND PUTTING ANOTHER HAND ON THE BAG.

I"m not too fond of baby shit on my seat either left there by the single parent with 3 kids, Fortunately they got off that we didn't have to listen and smell that mess either as I moved many rows of seats away.

Did I SAY PRIVATE JET....

[airtwardo 7]

As a pax on an international flight, I went into the 1st class lav once to find a little round mirror with a couple of lines of white powder on it next to the sink...

hmmm it was prob powdered sugar

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I doubt it...

~when the guy behind me sneezed I said, "There goes 40 bucks" and he got REAL paranoid!

~ If you choke a Smurf, what color does it turn? ~

[champu 1]

I travel regularly, but not a ton, and almost all of my air travel complaints are "passenger vs passenger" in nature.

Many are related to passengers who don't listen to airline staff like putting coats and purses in the overhead instead of under the seat in front of you, putting roll aboard bags in the overhead sideways, pretending you simply don't know how numbers work when boarding, or when the flight attendant asks nicely on a flight that was running late for people without connecting flights to stay seated on arrival and 90% of the plane gets up and starts shoving anyway.

I encountered a somewhat new one on a flight a couple days ago though...

Usually, and especially on long flights, I try to get a window seat because my way of dealing with air travel is to pass out, slump over against the side of the plane, not be bothered by people with smaller bladders than me, and generally do my best impersonation of cargo. Unfortunately on this flight there were very few seats available and I ended up in an aisle seat. On five occasions, in as many hours, as I was trying to sleep I had people that were walking down the aisle to get to the bathroom lean with all their weight on my headrest and then let it go as they moved past, spring-boarding my head forward.

Not once did I wake up to an elderly person who had been taken by surprise by some turbulence, nor once to an apology. Does this happen to anyone else?

[ChrisD 0]

Nevermind the passangers I just took a trip with Delta and WHAT THE F$%^&$ is up with the flat screen tv's that you can't turn off the adds ten inches from your face!!!

I mean this has gone to far... no sleep, tired, back hurts, and this flashing ad for gigo and an escallade jamming my brain like some kind of episode from the "Prisioner" tv show!

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total bull shit!

But what do I know, "I only have one tandem jump."

[airtwardo 7]

Try tapping 'menu' 3 times?

~ If you choke a Smurf, what color does it turn? ~

[ChrisD 0]

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Try tapping 'menu' 3 times?

Thanks for the heads up,...finally had to get the "flight attendants" to stick a card in the thing to shut it off...two of the attendants expressed their concern and indicated they had "had it" as well, but they wish to keep their jobs...has anyone else had this expeirience???

thanks airtwardo travelling Delta in feb...

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But what do I know, "I only have one tandem jump."

[DougH 270]

Will never fly Delta again. They tried to charge me 300 bucks to switch to a flight that had 60% of the seats empty. The CSR manager then told me that airline passengers were unreasonable assholes that want everything for free.

Fuck them!

"The restraining order says you're only allowed to touch me in freefall"
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[Remster 30]

I have bad news for you.... They all suck.

Remster

[champu 1]

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I have bad news for you.... They all suck.

It really depends on your travel habits. Unfortunately most airlines have dropped the motto, "the customer is always right" in favor of, "the customer with ____ level status and above is always right, to everyone else we're disposable, so they're disposable to us too."

The idea of promoting customer loyalty with perks makes good sense, but allowing you to check bags, have a seat other than a middle seat in the very back, change your flight, or get on anywhere but boarding group 7 (i.e. have access to overhead bin space) don't really seem like "perks" to me in the same way that, say, a priority security line, getting bumped to first if seats are available, or a nice lounge in the terminal are.

[airtwardo 7]

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I have bad news for you.... They all suck.

It really depends on your travel habits. Unfortunately most airlines have dropped the motto, "the customer is always right" in favor of, "the customer with ____ level status and above is always right, to everyone else we're disposable, so they're disposable to us too."

The idea of promoting customer loyalty with perks makes good sense, but allowing you to check bags, have a seat other than a middle seat in the very back, change your flight, or get on anywhere but boarding group 7 (i.e. have access to overhead bin space) don't really seem like "perks" to me in the same way that, say, a priority security line, getting bumped to first if seats are available, or a nice lounge in the terminal are.

Quit making sense, you're gonna screw it up for everybody!

~ If you choke a Smurf, what color does it turn? ~

[DougH 270]

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I have bad news for you.... They all suck.

No doubt. But not unlike comparing your first girlfriend to some hardcore porn star they all suck in varying degrees, across different categories.

Delta is the toothless crack head prostitute of customer service!

"The restraining order says you're only allowed to touch me in freefall"
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[JohnMitchell 16]

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Will never fly Delta again. T

One of my daughters lives in Sault Ste. Marie, MI. To fly anywhere out of there it's a Delta Link flight, two per day, down to MSP, then wherever you want to go. Last summer she bought tickets to come to a family reunion in SLC.

Flight out - Mechanical delay first leg, missed her early afternoon flight from MSP to SLC. Evening flight out of MSP - mechanical delay, almost canceled. Got into SLC at 2:30 am. Fine, at least that tired girl made it to the party.

Flight home - SLC to MSP actually launched on time. But while we're road tripping back to Seattle in the minivan we get a call from her in MSP. The flight up to Sault Ste. Marie is a mechanical cancellation and this is the 2nd day it hasn't even gone! There are 3 flights worth of people waiting to get on the plane, according to my daughter.

At this point, she called her fiancee to make the 12 hour round trip drive to come get her. She said the airline wouldn't refund her ticket. I told her not to worry about that, just to get a hotel voucher and wait for her guy there.

To finish the story, I got on the phone with Delta and gave them pissed-off-middle-aged-man until they refunded that leg of her ticket and gave her a $250 voucher. But she and her now husband say they'll drive up to Canada before they'll fly Delta Skylink out of S. Ste. Marie again.

This was not her only flight out of there that was screwed up, just the best example.

Beware of airlines with aging fleets.

[airdvr 210]

Just spent all day yesterday chasing planes.

My bitch is more with the airports...

Find some way to expedite check-in. It's 2013 for fuck's sake. We can do better

ALthough not common people spent 4 hours in lines yesterday trying to get through the disaster that leaving Aruba has become. Everyone knows 3 hours minimum on that tiny island. US Customs, do your work in the states, not on a small island where you don't have the proper facilities.

Airlines, leave when you say you're going to leave. Stop rewarding people for being idiots. Exception...15 minutes if there is an arriving flight with passengers connecting.

Update your pre-flight mantra. We all know how a seatbelt works.

Please don't dent the planet.

Destinations by Roxanne

[JohnMitchell 16]

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J US Customs, do your work in the states, not on a small island where you don't have the proper facilities.

No kiddning? That sucks.

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Update your pre-flight mantra. We all know how a seatbelt works.

I'm not sure, but I bet the FAA requires them to brief the seatbelt. I even mention in my tandem briefings that we'll wear seatbelts for takeoff.

[Stumpy 284]

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I have bad news for you.... They all suck.

Actually - Air New Zealand is awesome.

Never try to eat more than you can lift

[Remster 30]

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I have bad news for you.... They all suck.

Actually - Air New Zealand is awesome.

Fair enough... I was really thinking on American lines...

Remster

[Krip 2]

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Will never fly Delta again. They tried to charge me 300 bucks to switch to a flight that had 60% of the seats empty. The CSR manager then told me that airline passengers were unreasonable assholes that want everything for free.

Fuck them!

Hi Et Al

Delta

The head shed is looking into this one also.

http://www.stripes.com/news/veterans/delta-airlines-we-failed-double-amputee-marine-on-recent-flight-1.200810

Very poor customer service to a young double amputee marine.

In spite of the Delta's PR depts best efforts this senor FA may have raised the bar on "poor customer service". It's the new normal.

I'm calling BS on pointing the finger at the FAA reg's as a excuse.

R.