<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by FlyGuyBWI:
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Slow day at work so I'll play this game too.
2) The passenger behind you that thinks your seat is a handrail every time they get up.
Or pax who are waiting to get to their coach seats on an MD-88 and for some reason get so tired they have to lean their entire body weight against the top corner of your first class seat.
4) Slow service in First Class. I've seen it bad.
On a recent flight, the FA made one round through the FC cabin and sat down and read a magazine for the rest of the flight. People didn't get any refills or snacks until they individually requested them by ringing the call button.
5) The foreign guy sitting next to you who doesn't believe in deodorant.
Interesting comment but I've met many non-foreign pax with similar beliefs.
9) The person who takes over 15 minutes in the bathroom.
Similarly, coach pax using the FC bathroom. I've witnessed only a few FA bold enough to turn them back. The problem is more annoying in the MD-88s because a queue down the aisle prevents the FA from providing service to FC pax, makes the FC pax nervous because there is another pax looking over their shoulder at their laptop or newspaper, the person waiting in line gets tired and leans against someone's seat (Issue 2 above), and prevents the FC pax from using the bathroom in a timely manner (should you wait and hope the line doesn't get longer or get up and go back a couple rows to get in line?).
Now a couple of my own:
1. Pax who cannot handle their own luggage. If it is too heavy or bulky for you to maneuver it smoothly, pack less stuff or get a smaller bag.
2. Pax who hit every seated pax with their bags until they get to their assigned row AND they don't apologize for it.
3. Pax who think their cell phone conversation is more important than stowing their luggage in the overhead and decide to remain in the aisle and hold up everyone behind them. Put the phone down for a minute, throw your bag up and sit down. Then continue your "important" call at your own leisure.
4. People who completely disregard existing luggage in the overhead. I once witnessed a guy turn a medallion's luggage front-to-back so he could put his bag in sideways. Of course the door would no longer shut with the bag turned so when the FA walked by she pulled the medallion's luggage out of the overhead and said she would have to check it. The medallion member hadn't been paying attention when the switch-a-roo (sp?) occurred so he was dumbfounded as to why the FA suddenly had his bag in her hand. Luckily a couple pax near him spoke up and she took the other guy's bag out and checked it and returned the original bag back to the overhead. The second pax who cheated wasn't too happy to get ratted out. Serves him right though.