Comments on: 10 Constants of Air Travel

By: stacysaw

stacysaw — Thu, 05 May 2011 20:15:02 +0000

how can we leave out the drunk guy? he comes in all ages and sizes, but the constant is the loud then louder talking, hitting on the flight attendants (nice and mean,) and yelling out little one-liners he thinks everyone’s going to laugh at. you just pray they pass out, then they turn into the snorer.

By: ReAnna

ReAnna — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 23:29:12 +0000

On the longest leg back to the U.S. from Brazil I had to sit next to a “stinker”. He smelled like he had dirtied his shorts, the entire ten hour flight!!!!!!!!!!!

By: Steven

Steven — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 15:53:05 +0000

I fly on average about 25 times a year. And I don’t really think these are issues other than the seat hogger and the babies crying.

By: s. shankar

s. shankar — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 05:49:11 +0000

I remember several of those. And what about the stinker? People who sit next to you with an unwashed shirt that stinks to high heaven, or the chap with the trainers who takes them off the moment he sits at his seat, filling the entire cabin with the foul odour of smelly socks? Eeeew!

By: Katie

Katie — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 19:51:28 +0000

Sadly, I am the bizarre neighbor. I am really scared of flying so I always try to talk to the person next to me in an attempt to calm down. I don’t divulge too much information about myself but I am sure I am really annoying. I will use this reply as my blanket apology for all past and future airplane neighbors!

By: Maya

Maya — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 00:02:20 +0000

This goes with ‘The Bathroom Hogger’ but that person who decides to pass gas. And if you’re really lucky, they’re sitting in front of you so you get the full impact. I just don’t understand why people can’t wait to get to the flipping bathroom. But I think I prefer the Nasty Flight Attendant to the Overly Nice one because at least you have good stories to tell.

By: asalvesen

asalvesen — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 23:29:35 +0000

I dislike the curtains they pull between Economy and Economy Premium. It’s also unbelievably annoying how they flick on the lights to wake you after a transatlantic flight; it reminds me of being at camp when I was a kid, only now I’m paying for the torture, not my parents.
Oh one more thing – passengers who vomit are my least favorite, especially if they are sitting right next to me and don’t use a bag – or worse throw up on me. That actually happened to the poor kid sitting in front of me on the flight from Copenhagen to Kristiansand a couple days ago.

By: Lydia

Lydia — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 17:12:11 +0000

This makes me sad, actually! Maybe someone should do a list of the 10 positives of air travel instead of just the 10 negatives. These are cliches and I usually find only one or two of them on any given flight, especially the four times I flew between Japan and the US on 13 hour trips. Maybe this should be entitled “The 10 Constants of Air Travel in the US.”

By: somchai

somchai — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 21:36:41 +0000

I offer to hold the crying babies. Sometimes a stranger is a suprise and they forget whatever it was that had them upset. Usually they’re just having a hard time getting to sleep and if I sing “Rockabye Baby” a couple of times it does the trick. Love the smell of young babies. But then I’m usually in Asia and people think nothing of handing off babies to strangers.

By: Nikki

Nikki — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 00:26:11 +0000

I’m probably one of those “annoying neighbors”. You know an eight hour flight by yourself does get boring even if you do bring a book. Why can’t people be nice and have an interesting conversation once in awhile!? What’s so weird about that?