Annoying things that people do when travelling

[ozmille]

I don't know who invented the idea of the games on the touch screens but when the person behind you has been hitting the sreen for a while it tends to become annoying...


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[hvb]

I got one of these on Saturday. Spotted them returning from the toilet for about the 3rd time. Sat so I wasn't leaning on the seat, crossed arms and push the recline button. Seat snapped back and then forward. They got up like a normal person from then on. 20 something so not an old disabled person.

I so like the way you are thinking......

hvb

 

[LAH]

People sitting just behind business class who quickly and surreptitiously (as surreptitious as one can get) put their carry on baggage in business class overhead lockers as they pass through!

 

[ozmille]

People sitting just behind business class who quickly and surreptitiously (as surreptitious as one can get) put their carry on baggage in business class overhead lockers as they pass through!

Don't get me started on those! Usually a quick word with the cabin crew can get that fixed...

 

[Fantic125]

Have you ever travelled in India? The only approach there is to find a luggage trolley and park it right against the carousel so no-one else at all can access the carousel.

I've had 14 flights in India so far this year, and have another 6 scheduled within the next month! That is exactly the place I was thinking of when I wrote it!

 

[scottpilot10]

Not so much annoying as breathtakingly inconsiderate. I'm in Y on long haul to LAX with QF. Sitting just behind J cabin. I had noticed a woman behind me with two boisterous children obviously with her hands full but generally coping. Some time into the flight a man emerges from J, turns out to be husband/father. No "its your turn now to relax have a glass of wine while I take care of the kids" : he basically says hello then off he goes to relax in comfort. That was the last I saw of him. I can't imagine doing that to my partner. Does anyone else travel like that?

 

[QF WP]

I did that on my recent European trip, but in reverse - 2 long haul sectors in F for wife and daughter, whilst my son and I slummed it in J. It was a birthday present..

Otherwise I might do it next year when off to the USA (Y+ and J).

Hard to know what their situation was (was he travelling with work colleagues and his family was coming for holiday, expat travel policy meant having to pay for wife/kids)? Hard to judge without the full facts...

 

[scottpilot10]

I did that on my recent European trip, but in reverse - 2 long haul sectors in F for wife and daughter, whilst my son and I slummed it in J. It was a birthday present..

Otherwise I might do it next year when off to the USA (Y+ and J).

Hard to know what their situation was (was he travelling with work colleagues and his family was coming for holiday, expat travel policy meant having to pay for wife/kids)? Hard to judge without the full facts...

Slumming it in J? I know that there are a lot of circumstances where only one comfortable seat is available. All he needed to do was to provide some respite for his wife while he looked after the children if only for an hour or so. It is difficult to imagine circumstances that would prevent him from doing this. Fair game for older kids to be up the back while their parents are up the front. I know that the poor woman concerned had a terrible flight.

 

[QF WP]

Slumming it by comparison to my wife and daughter - they had individual seats in F, I had to share my J seat with my 21 month old. Not always easy to do on long haul flights (QF 30 LHR/HKG and then 2 days later HKG/MEL).

I agree with you that it appears to be bad form by the husband and I know not something my wife would willingly agree to on any of our future long hauls. We share the kids across cabins, not stick one adult in the same cabin as the kids...

 

[briggsy81]

I flew BNE-LAX in March this year, in front row Y (40C); there was a man with his pre-teen daughter across the aisle from me and the FAs seemed to know him, often stopping for a chat and brought them Y+ headsets. A little way into the flight, his wife emerged from the front to say hello to him and their daughter, bringing a little snack for her. I got to chatting to the husband a bit later and he told me they were both ex-FAs but could only get 1 J upgrade through the employee booking centre. Was a good flight, but shame about the 2 burly chaps one of the FAs brought down from the back to sit in 40A and B just before take off

Regarding being asked to move to accommodate couples, last weekend I flew Virgin Australia for the first time in a year (took advantage of the status match to Velocity Gold) and although I booked a flexi Y fare, when I did my web check-in I had been moved to 2F! Then while boarding was happening, the FA asked to see my BP and took it away. I had a horrible fear I would be realised an impostor and moved to the back somewhere, but she asked me if I would mind terribly moving forward one row! I understand there was a couple and the wife had also been booked into my seat, with him in the aisle (2-2 737 config). At least they moved me forward! Nice tactic to lure me back, Virgin!

My pet peeve is people who cannot understand social cues and continue to try and chat with me while I have made it clear I am not interested in conversation. I had a particularly unpleasant experience on a BNE-SYD flight of a guy (probably only a few years older than me) trying chat me up. He even moved to the empty middle seat between us (and then proceeded to fall asleep and snore, trapping me in the window seat). I was a pretty naive and inexperienced traveller to know how to respond but next time I will ask the FA to move me if possible, especially if it's longhaul.

 

[LAH]

My pet peeve is people who cannot understand social cues and continue to try and chat with me while I have made it clear I am not interested in conversation. I had a particularly unpleasant experience on a BNE-SYD flight of a guy (probably only a few years older than me) trying chat me up. He even moved to the empty middle seat between us (and then proceeded to fall asleep and snore, trapping me in the window seat). I was a pretty naive and inexperienced traveller to know how to respond but next time I will ask the FA to move me if possible, especially if it's longhaul.

I burst into laughter when I read this. I am a solitary traveller - except, to be truthful, on the very odd occasion. I try everything and one time I brought out my book, and was staring into space as I was very preoccupied - seemingly reading, but not really even looking at it. I had deliberately brought out the book to make it clear that I didn't want to talk. The chap next to me suddenly said "excuse me" and the look I gave him .......... well, he then went on to say "did you know your book is upside down?" That broke the ice!

 

[LAH]

OT - sorry, i can't resist. Dare I tell this story? In a similar vein to my post above. Very tired, and I had a stopover in AKL coming from australia to South America. Bought a pair of binoculars and wandered up to the lounge. Thought I'd have a play with my new toy. Nothing - not working and my flight was called. The chap from the reception desk was watching me and could see my frustration. He came up to me and said "it might help if you take the caps off the lens"!

 

[scottpilot10]

I'm in J cabin on yet another QF long haul middle row airbus. A couple opposite summons the FA pointing out that one had dropped something under the seat: he reading a book, she likewise. Making no attempt whatsoever to assist i.e. by getting out of the way so that the FA could get access to the seat, they continued reading. The poor FA in a most undignified posture (head down backside up) fossicks around under the legs of the still reading passengers. No luck. Another FA comes to assist. She lies on the floor under the legs of the passengers (who had still not made any attempt to assist) with a torch and claims to have located the dropped item (a pair of glasses). Now: how to retrieve the glasses. FA's confer. The good old coat hanger comes to the rescue. Again, lying on the floor spreadeagled between the immobile passengers, after much effort the FA retrieves the glasses and returns them to the reading passenger (who evidently can still read without glasses). We applaud, but absolutely no acknowledgement or thanks from the passengers concerned. Such rudeness and inconsideration really annoys me. What pleased me though (and the equally curious bloke sitting next to me) was that the QF FAs went that extra mile to help out, were genuinely pleased when they solved the problem, and coped cheerfully with the lack of recognition from the passengers that they helped. We had a good chat about it later in the flight: goes with the job I suppose.

 

[LAH]

Appalling behaviour. That really upsets me too.

 

[rechoboam]

Having done a very low-status job as a student I learnt you could judge people's character by how well they treated people with lower "status". I ended up working with some of the bigwigs later at their same level, different department, and the people who had taken the time to say hello in my former life were invariably the best people to work with later on. I think some of these snobs are basically pretty insecure deep down.

 

[cityflyer369]

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Most of those don't bother me, though I agree some are inconsiderate. My peeves:

• People who climb over you to get to the aisle or their seat, instead of indicating that they'd like to get out and giving you a moment to get up and let them past.

I have to admit that I am one of these people, but I actually do this just to be a nice fellow traveller. Why should someone have to move out of their seat for me if I can get to my seat without bothering them?

 

[ozmille]

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I have to admit that I am one of these people, but I actually do this just to be a nice fellow traveller. Why should someone have to move out of their seat for me if I can get to my seat without bothering them?

I had someone fall on my when they were trying to climb over me whilst I was asleep and it was not an enjoyable situation.

 

[LAH]

I had someone fall on my when they were trying to climb over me whilst I was asleep and it was not an enjoyable situation.

I am sorry that that happened to you - but I can't help but laugh - sorry!

 

[briggsy81]

I flew QF 29/30 in J in August, in upper deck with the 2-2 config skybeds, and I was on the aisle seat. On the way over, I did partially wake up while in flatbed mode when the man in the window seat was carefully stepping over me to get to the lav. I wasn't annoyed at all though, I actually felt bad for being a hindrance. But I guess that's the "problem" with skybeds in that configuration, if you are lying flat then there is nowhere for people to go but over!

On the way home, I was in exactly the same seat, but I didn't notice the man next to me get up at all while it was sleep time (It's like kindy but with the bonus of alcohol: they give us pj's then turn down the lights and we all go to sleep for a while ). I remember him telling me about his huge last night in Europe so I am guessing he was catching up on some much needed zzzz's!

 

[TiredOldFlyer]

No 11.

People who book F and their children in Economy (with the nanny !) and the children spend their time running up and down the a/c to see mum and dad.:evil: