Pet airport lounge hates

[Denali]

People taking or making phone calls in the toilet is gross.
I have always wanted to simply grab their phone from their hand and flush it down the toilet. I've never been brave enough to do it.

Well, you know where their hands have been.....

 

[jb747]

Business class just isn't all it's cracked up to be.

 

[flyer89]

Business class just isn't all it's cracked up to be.

Mrs. JB take this just before you were about to be seated?

 

[kongteh]

Ban using handphone without headset. Some passengers seems very keen to share their personal life details with total strangers by conducting loud conversation

 

[agentgerko]

1. Dress regs - no thongs, boardies, singlets, high-viz work clothes.
2. No phones on speaker
3. No music or recordings without headphones
4. Lounges should be predominantly adult-only, with a separate room for families.
5. DON'T take the window seats with the wonderful tarmac views and then sit there reading the paper or working on your laptop. If you aren't interested in the aircraft then leave those seats for those who are.

 

[Forg]

Ban using handphone without headset. Some passengers seems very keen to share their personal life details with total strangers by conducting loud conversation

That’s a problem EVERYWHERE!
Why on earth do so many people put their ‘phones on speaker & then scream into it?
Surely if you’ve got a problem hearing it, or the person on the other end has a problem hearing you, then NOT having it on speaker-phone would make a big difference! Or are these people really stupid enough to think it’s better on speaker even though they’ve had years‘ of proof that it’s not?

 

[jb747]

That’s a problem EVERYWHERE!
Why on earth do so many people put their ‘phones on speaker & then scream into it?

It's nothing to do with hearing, but it's all about "look at me".

 

[Forg]

It's nothing to do with hearing, but it's all about "look at me".

But when everybody, even your 75yo mum, is carrying a ‘phone ... what’s to notice? It just makes no sense!

 

[TomVexille]

1. Dress regs - no thongs, boardies, singlets, high-viz work clothes.

Lol, the poor behavior I've seen in lounges is 95% from people wearing "business" attire.

 

[jb747]

Lol, the poor behavior I've seen in lounges is 95% from people wearing "business" attire.

Yes, I recall a bloke who was so dressed sitting in business class on the aircraft. He simply threw everything he was finished with on the aisle floor. I was paxing, so I picked it up and returned it to him.

 

[onemore]

Ban using handphone without headset. Some passengers seems very keen to share their personal life details with total strangers by conducting loud conversation

Funny that, as I am the person sitting there with the headphones and the boom microphone to conduct a conversation that will not interfere with other people and the looks I get, well some people must thing I am weird. The only thing stopping me from saying something to the very important people that want everyone to know their business is that they could/might say something to someone at the front desk and I might get evicted, or worse they call the Federal police on me and I might miss my flight. This is way Australia has become.

 

[Philjbod101]

Ban using handphone without headset. Some passengers seems very keen to share their personal life details with total strangers by conducting loud conversation

Join in. If it’s not private, then there’s no reason that you can’t participate and if it is private, then it would be conducted... ‘privately’. As I have explained twice to irate loud talkers, once in a hotel dining room and once sitting next to me on a plane.

 

[onemore]

Join in. If it’s not private, then there’s no reason that you can’t participate and if it is private, then it would be conducted... ‘privately’. As I have explained twice to irate loud talkers, once in a hotel dining room and once sitting next to me on a plane.

What was their reaction?

 

[mrsterryn]

A few years ago I was in Walmart (love to visit when in USA ) and I was on the phone to my mother back here in Aust . I had to speak rather loudly.
Now it was Thursday in USA and Friday back home .
Telling mum it was friday I had quite a few people tap me and mouth 'it is Thursday ' soooo commenting on other people's calls is common wherever you are lol

 

[Denali]

Funny that, as I am the person sitting there with the headphones and the boom microphone to conduct a conversation that will not interfere with other people and the looks I get, well some people must thing I am weird. The only thing stopping me from saying something to the very important people that want everyone to know their business is that they could/might say something to someone at the front desk and I might get evicted, or worse they call the Federal police on me and I might miss my flight. This is way Australia has become.

What gets me is that people discuss some high level stuff with little concern. Ive... well lets be honest, Im listening on purpose because Im a people watcher, to conversations about sackings, police involvement, govt enquiries, construction bids & underbidding due to inside info and investigations. I recall a CBA team at an airport still in their yellow ties being very loud about why they travelled and how good the result was going to be for them plus what they thought about some of their leadership team/naming names.

 

[Julesmac]

What gets me is that people discuss some high level stuff with little concern. Ive... well lets be honest, Im listening on purpose because Im a people watcher, to conversations about sackings, police involvement, govt enquiries, construction bids & underbidding due to inside info and investigations. I recall a CBA team at an airport still in their yellow ties being very loud about why they travelled and how good the result was going to be for them plus what they thought about some of their leadership team/naming names.

....and that's why we have The Rumour File on breakfast radio, folks! I do think people think they have the audio equivalent of an invisibility cloak on when they yak away loudly. I've often thought of getting a business card printed with "No one is interested in listening to your loud boring phone conversation". Inside voice, indeed.

 

[Denali]

....and that's why we have The Rumour File on breakfast radio, folks! I do think people think they have the audio equivalent of an invisibility cloak on when they yak away loudly. I've often thought of getting a business card printed with "No one is interested in listening to your loud boring phone conversation". Inside voice, indeed.

Better, a card that reads "Thanks for the inside info for me to tell my national news editor"

 

[Philjbod101]

neither was happy but my logic, my smile and my size gives them little recourse. And as has been pointed out elsewhere, sometimes people will discuss very sensitive things, loudly, on a mobile phone in public, I’m pretty sure the guy on the plane discussing, wedging a seller on a property deal, got pretty short shrift from his boss once his boss realised where he was or at least, that he wasn’t alone. Actually that reminds me, someone else brought up, people that talk on the phone in toilet cubicles. I’ve also joined in there, asking loudly from outside the door, “doesn’t the person on the other end of the phone object to you talking to them from a public toilet while you’re taking a dump? “ (Sorry, but the actual word was even more vulgar) They just stopped talking (presumably hung up) immediately.

 

[kongteh]

It's nothing to do with hearing, but it's all about "look at me".

I suppose this sums up the mentality of these people. They're everywhere - on the train, at the gym, in cinemas, on golf course, at driving range - and yes quite often they're trying to impress the person they're talking to (hey, guess what I'm at the QANTAS Business Lounge), or other around them (Look, I've given you my BAFO offer and I can't go any lower without getting my Chairman involved; OMG, guess when I went for dinner yesterday). I once have a guy talking loudly on the phone on a 60 minutes bus trip. Common sense and civic mindedness have all gone out of the window!!

 

[onemore]

Common sense is dead and buried.