Aunty Acid by Ged Backland for January 23, 2025

Amen

Agreed. They are willfully disobeying the flight attendants.

They didn’t do what the flight attendants toad them to.

My most memorable was from Miami to Houston. There was an elderly lady sitting next to me driving the flight attendants crazy. When serving breakfast she asks the attendant about a special meal. The attendant asked did she had reserved one she responded that she told she didn’t have to. She then asked me if she could have my roll which I gave her. The grand finale was during final descent she decides she needs to go to the loo. An attendant put her in an empty seat and while approaching the gate was given a lecture and then asked me if I was with her where I promptly said “no”. The attendant reported her to the captain who might deny her to continue to San Fransisco with them but would make sure other arrangements could be made.

With the stories in the news this would be the least of my worries.

Did you hear about the plane that took off with the tow bar still attached to the landing gear? Upon landing, it really pole vaulted the pilot’s career. In a negative way.

The airline industry could use a lot of help. In their quest for profits they overlook their customers. Unless you are a hobbit, you do not fit in the seat. My son is 6 ft 5 inches tall. The distance from his hip to his knee is less than that on an airline seat.

Then there is the 120% overbooking so someone always has to get bumped. God forbid that the aircraft take off with a single empty seat. The exception is when they bump 2/3 of the passengers to take on cargo. You have flexible plans, the cargo doesn’t.

So they fly you to a nearby city where you can rent a car at your own expense to get to your original destination.

These are the corporate policies made by the CEO and the directors of the airline. The gate attendants and flight crews do not make these policies.

CEOs of airlines should be required to fly coach once a quarter.

The guy who stands up first is ALWAYS a yuppie who wears a three piece suit and then demands that he leave the plane first because he has “an important meeting that cannot start til I get there.”

I must be missing a nuance here, but isn’t when the plane lands when you are supposed to stand up? I mean, are they supposed to carry you off the plane? ☺

As annoying as they can be, I do understand the anxiety of getting to your next plane on time that is at the OPPOSITE end of the airport..

Electric shock mite work!!!!!

Also persona non grata are those who mid-flight demand shoo-fly pie.

These immediate standers are generally the same dolts who then block the end of my aisle while they try to wrestle down their heavy bag(s) from the overhead bin directly over me.

Let them join the stampede, I can wait.

when I used to fly, I’d wait in my seat til everyone was on their way out, and then pull up the rear… no pushing and shoving like first graders in a lunch line… nice, calm, relaxed….. Everyone would have to wait at the baggage claim area anyway for their luggage to show up, so why rush?

There is a video of a Chinese airline whose pilot acknowledged the commands of the tower yet still could not follow directions eventually sitting on the main runway instead of to the side until his turn to get on to take off. The tower in frustration cleared him for take off after making the other planes wait. Good riddance. I was in Beijing International Airport a few years ago for a connecting flight and NOBODY spoke any English. I was just as frustrated as that control tower. Flying on a CCP airline? Don’t.

Outstanding!

They are annoying, but getting up when the plane is about to take off is worse. I’ve had that happen on a flight and we were delayed for two hours because of it.

the radio station I was listening to n the way to work today had a bit about plane etiquette and this was number one. they said studies have proven you get off quicker if people go in order. I’ve never flown so I wouldn’t know.

What we need is seatbelt latches controlled by the flight crew.

Wait until it stops rolling may be?

I assume she means, “people who stand up and get into the aisle when the Fasten Seat Belt sign is turn off when the plane is at the gate.” I suppose you’ve never had to make an O’Hare Dash? Meanwhile, the people in the row in front of you who waited are the ones that have the bags that test the limits of “carry-on” in the overhead bins, and Of Course it takes them forever to try to get them out without having them fall to the floor.

I agree this is one of my pet peeves

I always sit until the aisle clears, why stand in line until you get off.

I’m that person sometimes. After sitting for so long, I just need to stand.

I have a suggestion, but it will never be adopted since it will cut into the airlines’ profits.

You have all the seats open in the terminal and you can walk directly up to your seat from either side and sit down. The seats are on a pallet, and the pallet is driven out to where the plane is parked (no need for a gate) and loaded on the airplane. The reverse happens on the other side.

It might not work for people, but I’ve watched baggage handlers load the aircraft. They are using ancient technology. About the only improvement between the people who do this and the people who built the pyramids is the motorized ramp that gets the bags from the truck to the cargo door.

Your bag is handled by you, then the person at the gate, then a hander who loads it onto a truck, and then a handler who takes it off the truck and puts it on the conveyer at the airplane and then someone in the plane to put it in the cargo bay, and then someone at the destination who takes it out of the cargo bay, and puts it on the conveyer, and then someone who takes it off and puts it on the truck, and then someone who takes it off the truck and puts it on the conveyer to put it on the luggage carousel where you pick it up.

This does not include the handling between connecting flights. It’s essentially just two steps fewer. (No desk agent and no you).

That’s a LOT of “touches.” It seems like there is a lot of room for improvement. Nonetheless, it’s amazing how few bags do get lost nowadays, especially when compared to the past.