ARCHIVE: What's the stupidest, least substantive thing you can complain about?
May 15, 2012, 3:32 pm
#1561
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: LAX
Programs: AA Lifetime Gold but PlatPro thanks to LPs
Posts: 4,440
Y (Coach) can be fun. I did have a stranger's bare feet in my lap, once that I remember. I held a delightful baby in my lap so Mom could eat her dinner. The baby was the sweetest thing, ever, and her cute little pink tootsies were in my lap.
Yeah, I know, baby-holding is not for everyone. I offered out of my free will and enjoyed every minute.
May 15, 2012, 3:45 pm
#1563
Join Date: Jun 2011
Location: BOS
Programs: AA EXP
Posts: 7,710
That seems a bit off... here's a much easier pitch my weekend experience reminded me of.
Back when I was flying with my ex, we had a row of 3 Y seats to ourselves and I woke up with her foot up on my neck pressing against my chin. These things don't happen when I fly with other 6'+ men.
Back when I was flying with my ex, we had a row of 3 Y seats to ourselves and I woke up with her foot up on my neck pressing against my chin. These things don't happen when I fly with other 6'+ men.
May 15, 2012, 5:09 pm
#1564
Join Date: Dec 2007
Posts: 161
How about drunk/belligerent passengers in Business class? Recent trip from MIA to a Caribbean destination, four vacation makers were quite drunk, sitting in 5A/B, and 6E/F on a 738 and yelling back and forth about various things; FAs didn't cut them off, continued to provide them with whisky, baileys, etc. Horrible flight!
May 15, 2012, 6:22 pm
#1565
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: Austin, Texas
Programs: Airline nobody. Sad!
Posts: 26,062
How about drunk/belligerent passengers in Business class? Recent trip from MIA to a Caribbean destination, four vacation makers were quite drunk, sitting in 5A/B, and 6E/F on a 738 and yelling back and forth about various things; FAs didn't cut them off, continued to provide them with whisky, baileys, etc. Horrible flight!
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May 16, 2012, 2:04 am
#1566
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: RBKC
Programs: AA EXP and Eurostar Carte Blanche
Posts: 3,856
Ah yes, other pax leaning/sitting/resting on you
When I was in high school, I recall an overnight TATL in Y where I was fortunate enough to have the aisle seat next to a girl (also in high school, as it turned out) in the middle seat. She was cute and we struck up a conversation before everyone went to sleep. When I woke up a few hours later, she had cuddled up to me and was resting her head on my shoulder.
When she woke up, we both laughed about it, and then she went back to sleep and did it again ^
My stupid complaint is that none of my other flights during high school had such attractive seatmates.
When I was in high school, I recall an overnight TATL in Y where I was fortunate enough to have the aisle seat next to a girl (also in high school, as it turned out) in the middle seat. She was cute and we struck up a conversation before everyone went to sleep. When I woke up a few hours later, she had cuddled up to me and was resting her head on my shoulder.
When she woke up, we both laughed about it, and then she went back to sleep and did it again ^
My stupid complaint is that none of my other flights during high school had such attractive seatmates.
May 16, 2012, 3:34 am
#1567
Join Date: Feb 2008
Posts: 132
.I cant recall any other bank besides Citi... the rest have the mag stripe in the top of the back...
May 16, 2012, 4:30 am
#1568
Join Date: Jun 2011
Location: DCA
Programs: AA EXP; BoNVoY Tit LTP
Posts: 1,923
Many years ago in TATL coach (LH ORD-FRA) I was in aisle seat with two empty seats between me and the window but about a minute before take-off the FA arrived with two unaccompanied minors on their way to India. I learned that dad was trying to finish his thesis and they were being sent to live with their Uncle and Aunt. I feared the worst but shortly after dinner they announced they were tired and (in the pre-strap yourself in just in case there is turbulence era) one sacked out on their two seats and the other set up some pillows on the floor and they slept until breakfast. I have never had such a quiet evening in an aisle seat (no fidgeting, snoring, climbing over me to the bathroom) and [my complaint] probably never will again.
May 16, 2012, 7:31 am
#1569
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: USA
Programs: AA Platinum Pro
Posts: 653
Yes, flip-flop/sandal season is upon us. I brace myself for bare feet resting on the bulkheads, on tray tables, backs of seats, curled up next to me - seen it all even in F/J (except the toe nail clipping - OMG!! I hope to miss that one!)
May 16, 2012, 8:19 am
#1570
Join Date: Nov 2009
Programs: AA PLT, 60K "old miles"
Posts: 188
They replaced my ramekin with tin foil cupcake paper.
May 18, 2012, 2:43 pm
#1571
Join Date: Jun 2011
Location: BOS
Programs: AA EXP
Posts: 7,710
AA 1466 on May 29th has no available Preferred Plus or Preferred seats, just 18 unassigned blue middle seats.
Are their routes where this happens a lot? I usually see Preferred Plus seats available right up until the flight goes to gate control.
Are their routes where this happens a lot? I usually see Preferred Plus seats available right up until the flight goes to gate control.
May 18, 2012, 2:44 pm
#1572
Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: Bay Area
Programs: WN A-List, AA good-riddance, Safeway Club Card Extraordinaire
Posts: 3,851
May 18, 2012, 3:00 pm
#1574
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: Austin, Texas
Programs: Airline nobody. Sad!
Posts: 26,062
That is very strange. I took that flight in January twice (admittedly on a Sunday morning), neither had more than 20 people on the entire flight. Similar to Science Goy, I have 2440 on the 28th (night before on exact same route, technically just 12 hours before) and there are no blue seats available in Y, just 15 total of green and purple.
May 18, 2012, 3:11 pm
#1575
Join Date: Jan 2012
Programs: AY+ Plat, Marriott Plat, Hyatt Discoverist
Posts: 2,846
I took 1466 DFW-BOS a few weeks back on a Sunday morning. It was packed, not a single seat left! I was shocked, because as everyone has been saying, the flight had been empty in my past experiences.
And now to complain...because the flight was packed, and because I wanted to stop in the AC for a cup of coffee after my SFO redeye, I had to store my bag all the way in the back of a 757, when I was seated in 10F. More hilariously, the two young ladies sitting in my row were completely hungover. The one next to me said she didn't feel well and said she hated flying, especially takeoffs and landings. It was an interesting flight.
And now to complain...because the flight was packed, and because I wanted to stop in the AC for a cup of coffee after my SFO redeye, I had to store my bag all the way in the back of a 757, when I was seated in 10F. More hilariously, the two young ladies sitting in my row were completely hungover. The one next to me said she didn't feel well and said she hated flying, especially takeoffs and landings. It was an interesting flight.