Air Canada flight or lounge confessionals
#1
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Air Canada flight or lounge confessionals
If someone in front of me reclines their seat into my space during meal service, I will passive aggressively push on the screen, and generally take any opportunity to inadvertently bump the chair in front of me.
share yours.
share yours.
#2
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How mature. Why not just politely ask them (or indirectly via a FA) to please put it upright just for the meal service?
#4
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I never recline my seat. So when someone pushed too hard and too much on the screen, I will passive aggressively recline my seat, and generally take any opportunity to inadvertently cause frequent jumps in my recline position.
#6
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Also when parents don't control their kids and they end up kicking your seat or whatever for the entire flight.
#7
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Complain to an airline which provides for seat reclining but does not provide for enough space to make it work instead of mistreating another passenger. Or do what most of us FFs do nowadays, recognize that Y is no longer what it used to be, and that it doesn't cost what it used to either, and fly J or at least PY if available. Or if that does not work, just stay home. Or blame yourself (or your employer, look for another job) for being cheap and flying Y. Anyway, I fail to see that Y meals, if any, are worth getting obnoxious with another airline Y victim. Better to have a half decent meal before or after, I would say.
#11
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If I have to sit in PY, I sit in either D or G seats and carefully craft a “screw you don’t talk to me” face so that the middle seat goes the other direction to go to the lav.
#12
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#13
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I confess to giving an angry stare at screaming children when their parents aren't looking (especially if they are standing up and staring over the back of the seat). It's surprisingly effective since most of the precious darlings aren't use to adults being mean to them.
#14
Join Date: Apr 2016
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Maybe a bit off topic, but I don't have any respect for Air Canada check in staff because 10 or so years ago I got into a protracted argument with an agent who wouldn't let me get on my flight to Zurich because she insisted that Canadians needed a visa to get into Switzerland. She talked to her supervisor and it was a massive headache until I realized that she thought Zurich was in Swaziland not Switzerland. I always think of that when I check in.
And on to more pleasant topics, when I am in widebody J and I need to use the lav, I sometime take the different aisle when coming back from the lav. Reason being there are two snack baskets, one placed near each aisle. By going through a different aisle I can grab more snacks. This is especially useful near the end of the flight when the KitKat may be gone from one of the baskets.
And, I licked the desert plate a few times
#15
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I have filled my plate with nachos in the MLL ... and then, after finishing the nachos, I have used the same plate to enjoy more nachos.
I'll admit that until I read FT I didn't even know that behavior was a mortal sin ... but oh, it feels so good to confess my crime now.
I'll admit that until I read FT I didn't even know that behavior was a mortal sin ... but oh, it feels so good to confess my crime now.