Travel etiquette

[drewbles]

I would also add "Don't have wheeled carry-on luggage." These things are the bane of my life and I think passengers should require a doctor's certificate to be allowed to use them. Also, I thought this was an Australian website. When did we change from queue to line?

I think i'd sign a petition for wheel-on *only* (and all one sized). The amount of times i've been sconned in the head or knees by people with huge duffle bags or oversized handbags as people sling them over their shoulder and just barge down the aisle towards their seat without regard for who they're hitting, i've lost count of!

 

[SpudOz]

Agreed. I am very much white and blonde (naturally) and I get pulled up for an explosives check probably 8 or 9 times out of 10. Even when they have been busy testing someone else, I've been called to stop and wait - only at PER international though. Which makes me wonder if they have a certain quota to meet each day?

I, too, am very much white, with freckles; and blonde (by way of a bottle) and I have constantly been selected for the random explosives check at PER domestic and international. I am glad I am not the only one!

 

[Ewing]

I think i'd sign a petition for wheel-on *only* (and all one sized). The amount of times i've been sconned in the head or knees by people with huge duffle bags or oversized handbags as people sling them over their shoulder and just barge down the aisle towards their seat without regard for who they're hitting, i've lost count of!

Yes!

Handbags are the worst.

I actually travel with a small backpack sometimes as opposed to a rollaboard, but carry it by the handle when I'm walking down the aisle - it doesn't get slung over my back.

 

[smit0847]

Just as there are priority lines for premium classes and status pax, I wish there were lines designated for people 'requiring extra time/assistance' (i.e. families and old people) especially at security points. I try and avoid lining up behind these people who don't understand why you can't take a mobile phone through a metal detector or have a child who is 'scared' to go through it but sometimes they are in every line (ADL is notorious for this). This idea would benefit both those who need extra time as they wouldn't have anyone trying to hurry them, and those who can go through quickly as they wouldn't be held up by anyone else.

It reminds me of the scene in Up In The Air where Bingham advised which is the fastest Security line (he avoids families and the elderly and picks lines with Asian businessman).

 

[justin23]

I'm the opposite. its always the roll ons that hit me. Especially people just pulling them down the aisle and they bang either side of the aisle because its behind them and they are not watching. Luckily i'm strong enough to help if needed, but yeah i've never had issues with any kind of bag that doesn't have wheels. Its usually people trying to bring a weeks trip worth of clothes as carry on, worried it will get lost.

Yes!

Handbags are the worst.

I actually travel with a small backpack sometimes as opposed to a rollaboard, but carry it by the handle when I'm walking down the aisle - it doesn't get slung over my back.

 

[spudseamus]

I think i'd sign a petition for wheel-on *only* (and all one sized). The amount of times i've been sconned in the head or knees by people with huge duffle bags or oversized handbags as people sling them over their shoulder and just barge down the aisle towards their seat without regard for who they're hitting, i've lost count of!

Ohh my my pet hate ! Having had blood drawn by a backpack wearer ( on her back) turning quickly because she realised she had gone past her allotted seat the said backpack ,with a metal wear strip on the corner , hit me in the temple and cut me ! I have no reticence in asking any pax in front of me doing the same thing to take the backpack and hold it in front of them where they can see what it might hit !!!!
did I get an apology ? No! Was any F/A interested ? No! Lol! Ohhhh did I say it is my pet hate !!! Ha ha !

 

[AIRwin]

I actually travel with a small backpack sometimes as opposed to a rollaboard, but carry it by the handle when I'm walking down the aisle - it doesn't get slung over my back.

You carry a backpack to your weddings?

 

[Clivem]

From a male perspective ....... Errrrrr wheels ......???? ........... really ?

Its hard to go past some of the gems from Walker Lamond's work 'Rules For My Unborn Son' Eg ........ "Never pack more than you can carry yourself, and ........ a man’s luggage doesn’t roll.”

 

[drron]

I also have never had a problem with wheeled carry ons.Always a back pack that wacks into me as people really have no idea of whats around them-and don't care.

Funny avoiding the elderly in security queues-I try to avoid the ones with younger people.But that is in the premium lines where us dinosaurs are used to air travel and experienced.

 

[drewbles]

From a male perspective ....... Errrrrr wheels ......???? ........... really ?

Its hard to go past some of the gems from Walker Lamond's work 'Rules For My Unborn Son' Eg ........ "Never pack more than you can carry yourself, and ........ a man’s luggage doesn’t roll.”

When was that written? The 1920's? No way am I doing the amount of travel I do with a carry only bag

Try doing a tight connection in ORD arriving at Gate G13 or so on an AA Eagle flight, and connecting to a mainline at say gate K12 or so. I've done it a few times, and there's no way i'm running with a 7-10kg carry on

 

[TomVexille]

I think i'd sign a petition for wheel-on *only* (and all one sized). The amount of times i've been sconned in the head or knees by people with huge duffle bags or oversized handbags as people sling them over their shoulder and just barge down the aisle towards their seat without regard for who they're hitting, i've lost count of!

Ohh my my pet hate ! Having had blood drawn by a backpack wearer ( on her back) turning quickly because she realised she had gone past her allotted seat the said backpack ,with a metal wear strip on the corner , hit me in the temple and cut me ! I have no reticence in asking any pax in front of me doing the same thing to take the backpack and hold it in front of them where they can see what it might hit !!!!
did I get an apology ? No! Was any F/A interested ? No! Lol! Ohhhh did I say it is my pet hate !!! Ha ha !

I pretty much always travel with a duffle bag, bit it always is carried in front of me while boarding or disembarking an aircraft.

 

[drewbles]

I pretty much always travel with a duffle bag, bit it always is carried in front of me while boarding or disembarking an aircraft.

I do actually have a small Crumpler duffle bag (carry on size) I use for overnight trips sometimes (like a w/end in SYD). I too, do exactly this. Walk with it longways pointing forwards, in front. Never a problem then (and it's not at head height then either).

 

[TomVexille]

I do actually have a small Crumpler duffle bag (carry on size) I use for overnight trips sometimes (like a w/end in SYD). I too, do exactly this. Walk with it longways pointing forwards, in front. Never a problem then (and it's not at head height then either).

It's just about having a little awareness of your surroundings. Unfortunately most people are clueless.

 

[drewbles]

It's just about having a little awareness of your surroundings. Unfortunately most people are clueless.

Chivalry is dead, along with common courtesy, around 99% of the time I fear.

The same can be said about people in shopping centres/crowded environments, when they just stop walking to answer a text/brain fart or similar, and not be aware that someone walking right behind them is about to crash into them. I've been a long proponent of traffic-esque lanes with lights, round-abouts and express lanes in shopping centres, but I digress

 

[kew]

I think it would be a good decision if those who needed to go to the toilet frequently during a flight choose an aisle seat and generally, one does not normally get to use both arm rests for themselves.

 

[BadgerBoi]

It bothers me that 'don't touch the seat in front of you' is becoming accepted etiquette.

It's not so much "don't touch" as it is "don't pull it back with all the strength that you can summon". It's generally just not necessary particularly when the seat is not reclined. A light hold to steady yourself is not going to offend a reasonable person.

On a related issue, there is no need to pull back on every seat when wandering down the aisle to go to the loo. Nor is there a need to do your stretching exercises that involve shoving your cough right in my face - there are other ways to avoid DVT.
(I realise that I used the word "you" - this is not directed at Lynnelanne, just the stretch-fabric clad ladies and their trackie-dacked male companions who are guilty of this behaviour).

 

[TomVexille]

Chivalry is dead, along with common courtesy, around 99% of the time I fear.

The same can be said about people in shopping centres/crowded environments, when they just stop walking to answer a text/brain fart or similar, and not be aware that someone walking right behind them is about to crash into them. I've been a long proponent of traffic-esque lanes with lights, round-abouts and express lanes in shopping centres, but I digress

You forgot common sense...

 

[drron]

Chivalry is dead, along with common courtesy, around 99% of the time I fear.

The same can be said about people in shopping centres/crowded environments, when they just stop walking to answer a text/brain fart or similar, and not be aware that someone walking right behind them is about to crash into them. I've been a long proponent of traffic-esque lanes with lights, round-abouts and express lanes in shopping centres, but I digress

I totally digress with you.

 

[DC3]

.. It bothers me that 'don't touch the seat in front of you' is becoming accepted etiquette ...

Yes, but the seat in front of you is for someone else. It may have your meal tray attached at the rear, but the seat is theirs.

Similarly, your seat is not a play-thing or prop for the person behind you, yanking on it and trying to launch you into the upper cabin area in the process, until you get upset. What if you end up in a bulkhead seat? There's no seat in front to yank on or a handle to grab to haul yourself up.

This is not a personal attack, however, I'm ready to snap when someone behind me thinks that my seat is there for whatever goes.

 

[DC3]

... Nor is there a need to do your stretching exercises that involve shoving your cough right in my face ...

That brings back memories. Returning from CBR to SYD, a woman across from me stood up in the aisle and proceeded to touch her toes with her stretch lycra rear end in my face. The horrible woofiness of it all nearly floored me.