What's the most annoying EK passenger you have seen?
Jun 20, 2014, 2:19 am
#168
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The behaviour and lack of control by the mother is an absolute disgrace.
How satisfying it would be for them all to be banned from future travel until such time as they are able to provide cast-iron assurances that it will not happen again. But of course we are talking about an Arab family and an Arab-owned airline, so the chances of such a ban are marginally less than nil.
Jun 20, 2014, 8:00 am
#169
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Don't see any issue with that given the near-impossibility of anyone actually being identified from that particular photo.
The behaviour and lack of control by the mother is an absolute disgrace.
How satisfying it would be for them all to be banned from future travel until such time as they are able to provide cast-iron assurances that it will not happen again. But of course we are talking about an Arab family and an Arab-owned airline, so the chances of such a ban are marginally less than nil.
The behaviour and lack of control by the mother is an absolute disgrace.
How satisfying it would be for them all to be banned from future travel until such time as they are able to provide cast-iron assurances that it will not happen again. But of course we are talking about an Arab family and an Arab-owned airline, so the chances of such a ban are marginally less than nil.
The mother(s) we're disgraceful. The way they treated the nanny also bordered on a human rights violation!
I'm sure that the picture is fine. You can't really see anyone and it is dark in the cabin.
Jun 21, 2014, 3:12 pm
#170
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Jun 23, 2014, 5:36 pm
#171
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Clearly you people have not flown on EK to RUH/JED. There are real horrors on those flights.
Last December JED-DXB an Arab lady had a heated argument that was escalated to the Purser. From the translation that the passengers gave, apparently she did not like who she was seated next to and demanded a change on the fully booked flight. The boarding in JED is a shambles and the FA's agreed to swap her seat after take-off. She (loudly) refused and delayed the push back as she would not sit down even after the Purser had demanded. This was in Y.
The same flight had another Arab family (father seated in F, 3 wives and 10+ obnoxious children with Filipino nanny in Y). There are no words bad enough to describe how obnoxious and down right disgusting those children were. They ran up and down the isles, OVER passengers like me and the rest of my family, jumped on their seats and played with other peoples overhead storage. Almost everyone within a 20 seat radius was PISSED OFF and the mothers and nanny did absolutely NOTHING to at least try and control them. They were interfering with everyone's TV's and even remote controls by touching and slamming on them (on the brand new A380). They even jumped in the mother(s) lap while she plainly ignored it and watched TV. They completely disregarded everything any FA had told them. Even when passengers tried to stop them they laughed and actually spat at them.
You could not watch TV around them nor sleep, as they were kicking your seat and had their grimy fingers all over the touch screens tpfrom their seats in front.
During landing they still would not sit down or buckle up. At one point three FA's shouted "PLEASE SIT DOWN" loudly from three parts of the plane and they ignored it.
You can imagine how pleased I was when I took a photo on my iPad of them standing and jumping on the seats during landing, them getting told off by the FA and then getting escorted by police off the plane. I was then congratulated by fellow passengers and given chocolates by the purser.
I still have the photos but can't figure out how to post them.
Last December JED-DXB an Arab lady had a heated argument that was escalated to the Purser. From the translation that the passengers gave, apparently she did not like who she was seated next to and demanded a change on the fully booked flight. The boarding in JED is a shambles and the FA's agreed to swap her seat after take-off. She (loudly) refused and delayed the push back as she would not sit down even after the Purser had demanded. This was in Y.
The same flight had another Arab family (father seated in F, 3 wives and 10+ obnoxious children with Filipino nanny in Y). There are no words bad enough to describe how obnoxious and down right disgusting those children were. They ran up and down the isles, OVER passengers like me and the rest of my family, jumped on their seats and played with other peoples overhead storage. Almost everyone within a 20 seat radius was PISSED OFF and the mothers and nanny did absolutely NOTHING to at least try and control them. They were interfering with everyone's TV's and even remote controls by touching and slamming on them (on the brand new A380). They even jumped in the mother(s) lap while she plainly ignored it and watched TV. They completely disregarded everything any FA had told them. Even when passengers tried to stop them they laughed and actually spat at them.
You could not watch TV around them nor sleep, as they were kicking your seat and had their grimy fingers all over the touch screens tpfrom their seats in front.
During landing they still would not sit down or buckle up. At one point three FA's shouted "PLEASE SIT DOWN" loudly from three parts of the plane and they ignored it.
You can imagine how pleased I was when I took a photo on my iPad of them standing and jumping on the seats during landing, them getting told off by the FA and then getting escorted by police off the plane. I was then congratulated by fellow passengers and given chocolates by the purser.
I still have the photos but can't figure out how to post them.
Jun 24, 2014, 12:04 am
#172
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The 10+ children were being told off by passengers and FA's all over the plane. It didn't seem to bother them, though. They just carried on pretending that they were the only people on the plane.
The mother just sat there and did nothing while her children jumped all over the place. The only time she lifted her voice slightly was when they started jumping over her tummy as she looked a little pregnant (unfortunately for civilization). They still didn't stop though.
Jun 24, 2014, 4:04 pm
#173
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Oh people I have a story. EK856 short flight KWI-DXB. Morning flight, F cabin was almost empty, I was in 2A, 1EF had an elderly couple. Woman in 1F was completely covered in black traditional attire. She was holding a hand-held counter, the type you see a bouncer holding at a club as people walk in to count the number of people walking in. It clicks as it's pressed.
The woman was saying her prayers, bless her heart, but she was using this counter as a way to keep track of how many times she was saying them. So from the moment she got on the plane I would hear this "click" sound....every five to ten seconds. Once up in the air, you all know how sounds just bounce off the cabin walls. Just awful. And of course, I then fixate on it like a song stuck in your head.
And it wasn't uniform which made it all the more frustrating. And so "click....click...click....click..click....cli ck" the entire flight to DXB. The first and last time this has ever happened to me - on any flight.
I was surprised the F/A didn't say anything
The woman was saying her prayers, bless her heart, but she was using this counter as a way to keep track of how many times she was saying them. So from the moment she got on the plane I would hear this "click" sound....every five to ten seconds. Once up in the air, you all know how sounds just bounce off the cabin walls. Just awful. And of course, I then fixate on it like a song stuck in your head.
And it wasn't uniform which made it all the more frustrating. And so "click....click...click....click..click....cli ck" the entire flight to DXB. The first and last time this has ever happened to me - on any flight.
I was surprised the F/A didn't say anything
Jun 24, 2014, 5:03 pm
#175
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............. So from the moment she got on the plane I would hear this "click" sound....every five to ten seconds. Once up in the air, you all know how sounds just bounce off the cabin walls. Just awful. And of course, I then fixate on it like a song stuck in your head.
And it wasn't uniform which made it all the more frustrating. And so "click....click...click....click..click....cli ck" the entire flight to DXB. The first and last time this has ever happened to me - on any flight.
I was surprised the F/A didn't say anything
............. So from the moment she got on the plane I would hear this "click" sound....every five to ten seconds. Once up in the air, you all know how sounds just bounce off the cabin walls. Just awful. And of course, I then fixate on it like a song stuck in your head.
And it wasn't uniform which made it all the more frustrating. And so "click....click...click....click..click....cli ck" the entire flight to DXB. The first and last time this has ever happened to me - on any flight.
I was surprised the F/A didn't say anything
Makes you wonder whether this is her practice every time she flies - in which case the prospect of coincidentally sharing a cabin with her more than once doesn't bear thinking about !
I would have certainly been inclined to have a word with the Purser. Their stated role, after all, is to "make your flight as comfortable as possible ......."
Jun 24, 2014, 5:06 pm
#176
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What annoys me is the passengers who stand up and start trying to get bags down etc when the plane hasn't even left the active runway (or taxi-way). One day someone is going to get seriously injured. I get annoyed that the crew dont shout loudly at the person to sit down until we have come to a complete stop (like they do if you are on an Australian or US carrier).
Jun 24, 2014, 10:46 pm
#177
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Some pax don't care, others don't know, and the rest don't understand English. You barely get a weak PA announcement.
Whether in a premium or econ cabin, I see it every flight.
On my most recent flight, we had just left the main runway on landing and a woman literally took her bag down from the overhead and walked over to the front of the plane. Only then, face to face with the purser who was still strapped in, did he tell her to go back down and sit.
But of course, if you take a Middle Eastern attitude to it, "Meh, what's really going to happen that doesn't happen every day on a (or the EK) bus? You fall and you get up." (Americans would sue)
(Side note: there was a recent piece of research showing that giving out free child car seats won't even convince Emiratis to use them)
Safety aside, it's just really annoying. Where do they think they are going anyway?
Jun 24, 2014, 11:08 pm
#178
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IME, the only place where I've seen pax get off in an orderly way is in the domestic flights inside US. However, when the same pax board EK, they behave completely differently. Case in point is my flight last weekend JFK-DXB in Y, where the moment the a/c made a stop (first waiting for another a/c to cross and then waiting for gate), half of the plane got up and went for the o/h bins.
FA reprimanded pax and made announcements the first time but didn't say anything the second time.
I think everyone seemed to be in a hurry to get off - there were a group of folks who were seated in different parts of the a/c with their luggage in different areas shouting to pass on their bags from the seats behind. The sight of several strolleys making their way above the heads of pax before the a/c doors were opened was quite a sight
FA reprimanded pax and made announcements the first time but didn't say anything the second time.
I think everyone seemed to be in a hurry to get off - there were a group of folks who were seated in different parts of the a/c with their luggage in different areas shouting to pass on their bags from the seats behind. The sight of several strolleys making their way above the heads of pax before the a/c doors were opened was quite a sight
Jun 25, 2014, 7:19 am
#179
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Flying in F into Paris last week there was a couple with a lap child. He must have been at the limit (if not over) based on his size. He wasn't too bad on the flight but as we all know toddlers don't have inside voices. What really drove us all nuts was on landing they must have put him in an empty seat by himself because he started crying. And crying. And crying. We had a long taxi and the poor kid was starting to lose his voice from crying too much.
I could look up the aisle to see the mom who was busy looking at her phone. I was very close to getting up and comforting the kid myself even though we were taxiing because I was at my limit, but I worried that it wouldn't be culturally appropriate. This went on about 15 minutes before they must have gotten up to get the child.
I could look up the aisle to see the mom who was busy looking at her phone. I was very close to getting up and comforting the kid myself even though we were taxiing because I was at my limit, but I worried that it wouldn't be culturally appropriate. This went on about 15 minutes before they must have gotten up to get the child.
Jun 25, 2014, 12:03 pm
#180
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Flying in F into Paris last week there was a couple with a lap child. He must have been at the limit (if not over) based on his size. He wasn't too bad on the flight but as we all know toddlers don't have inside voices. What really drove us all nuts was on landing they must have put him in an empty seat by himself because he started crying. And crying. And crying. We had a long taxi and the poor kid was starting to lose his voice from crying too much.
I could look up the aisle to see the mom who was busy looking at her phone. I was very close to getting up and comforting the kid myself even though we were taxiing because I was at my limit, but I worried that it wouldn't be culturally appropriate. This went on about 15 minutes before they must have gotten up to get the child.
I could look up the aisle to see the mom who was busy looking at her phone. I was very close to getting up and comforting the kid myself even though we were taxiing because I was at my limit, but I worried that it wouldn't be culturally appropriate. This went on about 15 minutes before they must have gotten up to get the child.