Airline Passenger Telling It Like It Is!!-Passenger Grumpiness!!!

[AdamSmith]

If you've ever had an airline lose your luggage, you would understand. It need only happen once, and you would be cured from ever checking baggage again.

Truth.

 

One time on an overnight to Paris, where I had business meetings scheduled starting with lunch the first day, the airline lost my luggage. This was before credible business attire could be even slightly casual, so I spent the morning running around buying shirt, slacks, jacket, tie to look halfway presentable.

 

The bag did arrive that evening. But never again will I chance that.

[+ Gar1eth]

Truth.

 

One time on an overnight to Paris, where I had business meetings scheduled starting with lunch the first day, the airline lost my luggage. This was before credible business attire could be even slightly casual, so I spent the morning running around buying shirt, slacks, jacket, tie to look halfway presentable.

 

The bag did arrive that evening. But never again will I chance that.

 

I vaguely remember my Mom's suitcase being taken by someone else when we traveled to Dallas for a funeral once. A woman had accidentally thought my Mom's suitcase was hers. And this was back in the days when Love Field had someone at baggage claim supposedly making sure you had the correct luggage before you could leave the area.

 

Gman

[AdamSmith]

And this was back in the days when Love Field had someone at baggage claim supposedly making sure you had the correct luggage before you could leave the area.

I remember when they did that, or pretended to. I think those people checked about one out of every 30 passengers, if that.

[marylander1940]

I just saw this and I had to post it...

 

[MikeyGMin]

I just saw this and I had to post it...

 

 

@Kurtis Wolfe just in case you aren't following this thread anymore. You have got to see this video. It's going to make the airline nerd in you get a chub.

[+ azdr0710]

I just saw this and I had to post it...

 

 

 

dude across the aisle at 3:46 (and again at 8:10) ain't half-bad, too.....

Edited September 22, 2016 by azdr0710

[marylander1940]

dude across the aisle at 3:46 ain't half-bad, too.....

 

He has his own room...

 

http://manporn.xxx/videos/3096492/omg-auto-pilot-mode-while-pilots-fuck/

[Guest]

I just saw this and I had to post it...

 

What kind of weirdo wears sunglasses while showering??

[marylander1940]

What kind of weirdo wears sunglasses while showering??

 

I'm sure that's not his only eccentricity... He's a teenager in this 40's.

Edited September 22, 2016 by marylander1940

[marylander1940]

@Kurtis Wolfe just in case you aren't following this thread anymore. You have got to see this video. It's going to make the airline nerd in you get a chub.

 

@Kurtis Wolfe

 

would any of yinz consider flying Air Koryo?

 

 

[jimboivyo]

emirates is good

 

etihad does one better

 

http://www.etihad.com/en-us/experience-etihad/flying-reimagined/the-residence/

[Bargara Leatherboy]

I personally love a good Singapore Airlines First Class Suite - you are guaranteed decent service, something which does not always happen on the Middle Eastern Airlines, sometimes the service is exceptional other times its woeful

[mike carey]

I can't compete with an account of service in any of the various first class cabins. I've only travelled in first class once, from Penang to Singapore (via KL) on MAS. (AA first class on a J class QF ticket doesn't count.) If I planned to travel once every two or so years I might consider flying first class, but I hope to travel more often.

 

I value a decent experience in the air, and in the lounge before departure. I flew economy SYD-DFW early this year (in an A380), the service was good and I was complimented for wearing a jacket and tie (why they would do that I have no idea). The person in front of me said that they had requested a vegetarian meal, the cabin staff were unaware but arranged for the first class chef to prepare a vegetarian meal for the passenger.

 

On my return flight I upgraded to premium economy. First class it ain't, but the leg room and the service was good. More recently I flew across Australia in business class (flat bed seats, but it was a daylight flight so who cares), and taking into account the business class lounge, I was sufficiently pampered.

 

I understand that competing first class cabins are interesting, but for me competing steps above economy are enough.

[MikeyGMin]

emirates is good

 

etihad does one better

 

http://www.etihad.com/en-us/experience-etihad/flying-reimagined/the-residence/

 

For the plebians among us. Does turbulence never dare to shake that first class cabin or is there some kind of restraint on that double bed?

[+ azdr0710]

For the plebians among us. Does turbulence never dare to shake that first class cabin or is there some kind of restraint on that double bed?

 

turbulence?......what is this......this turbulence you speak of??

 

http://www.emirates.com/english/images/Private%20Suites_media%20player_3_tcm233-684936.jpg

[bigvalboy]

dude across the aisle at 3:46 (and again at 8:10) ain't half-bad, too.....

Ha...good catch azdro710

[marylander1940]

Commercial airline travel has become a joke.

 

Friends and I call it the "Greyhound of the Sky".

 

Don't ever fly private though.....you'll like it too much to ever give it up!

 

Here's another choice for low budget fliers.

 

[Samfoslom]

Last time i flew back into vegas from a trip i had one guy over filling his seat and into half of mine. was okay because he was muscular lol.. mr olympia in vegas

but most of the time its someone you would rather NOT touch. if they want to fill up my seat, they can buy my ticket too.

 

I feel this way whenever a full size SUV pulls in next to my compact in the parking lot.

[Bargara Leatherboy]

The thing with all the top Mid Eastern Airlines - Emirates, Etihad, Qatar and Gulf - is that when the crew gel together and the crew are in a good mood - its heaven on a stick BUT when they are unhappy (and they often are as life in the Mid East is often not that good for the crew) they do only as much as they have to - and thats it. So it can be either a great or a mediocre experience

 

SQ is always the same - if a little robotic - and it takes a while to get them to come out of there shell and indulge in some chat

[marylander1940]

I love this thread about how annoying flying is...

 

Now let's talk about other annoying passengers:

 

 

[RandyC]

turbulence?......what is this......this turbulence you speak of??

 

I am not sure exactly what turbulence is but I did hear a British Airways pilot use the term once. My flight was about an hour or so from landing at Heathrow and I was in First Class enjoying a leisurely breakfast when the captain announced that due to "turbulence" they would not be serving breakfast. My guess is turbulence must be some sort of malfunction in the microwave they use to heat up coach meals.

[samhexum]

https://nypost.com/2018/01/04/luckiest-passenger-ever-gets-entire-plane-to-herself/

 

By Lauren Steussy January 4, 2018

Luckiest passenger ever gets entire plane to herself

 

 

Amid countless holiday-travel horror stories, one traveler provides a beacon of hope.

 

Beth VerSteeg got an entire plane to herself this week after accidentally scoring a seat on a flight intended solely for airline staff, according to Mashable.

 

VerSteeg provided a tell-all look via Reddit at the lonely, beautiful flight, which only had one flight attendant — who, yes, still gave the safety spiel for her audience of one.

 

The happy mistake happened earlier this week, after VerSteeg’s original flight from Rochester, NY, to Washington, DC, was canceled and she and several other passengers were rebooked on a later flight.

 

Airline staff quickly realized they had mistakenly booked the DC-bound passengers on a crew-only flight and managed to squeeze them onto an earlier flight. VerSteeg, however, missed the memo — and only realized something was off when she found herself alone in the waiting area 45 minutes before takeoff.

 

“One of the airport agents came over while I was waiting and asked if that was the flight I was waiting for, then said, ‘I knew this would happen,’ ” VerSteeg wrote in the thread. Happily, they agreed to take her anyway.

 

Once she’d boarded, VerSteeg chose a seat in the third row (there was no first-class section on the small plane). On her Reddit thread, she recalls making “awkward eye contact” with the lone flight attendant on board and spreading out over two seats.

 

“My top half had the window seat and the bottom half had the aisle,” she writes.

 

https://nypost.com/2018/01/04/luckiest-passenger-ever-gets-entire-plane-to-herself/

 

By Lauren Steussy January 4, 2018