On a CO flight last week there were 2 people in First right behind me that did not stop talking the entire flight. From the time they sat down until they got off the plane. They were not yelling but just running their mouth the entire flight. I was tempted to say something but did not. Really annoying. Should I have said something and if so what?

Since when did it become rude to simply talk? As you said, they were not yelling. There is no rule, formal or otherwise, against speaking to one's companion. If it bothers you, you have the option of bringing earplugs. I am a person who likes peace and quiet, and knowing that I am unlikely to find that on any form of public transportation, I bring earplugs for every flight and sometimes on train trips, too. (By the way, I hope you never take trains, because there almost everyone talks nonstop!)

You really can't tell people to stop talking (after all it is a free country). If they were being loud that is another story. For that reason, get an Ipod, or noise canceling headphones, or a good book. A small thin metal tube with anywhere from 50 to 400 paxs is not a place to seek silence.

am i the only one that considers this rude?

How long was the flight? I'm assuming this was a regular domestic flight, not a red-eye, doesn't sound unreasonable to me.

To: mike_asia
1. You are not alone. This has happened to me several times before. I would rather sit in a quiet plane than being bombarded with redundant conversations. If you could hear it in your row, then it is loud. Often, I have noticed that the most annoying conversations are between a man and a woman who had not met each other before.
2. Yet another annoyance is the head phone that blasts loud music. Again, while it is supposed to be personalized music delivery system, the loudness goes beyond the intended head and blasts others.
3. Worst is a flirting FA who sits on the aisle next to the object of admiration and goes into a babling conversation oblivious to the surroundings.
4. In the middle of a quite plane ride or in the middle of an exciting movie, the captain coming on the air to announce what a great flight it is!
5. Silence could be killing. An aisle seat passenger silently reading a book and gets visibly annoyed when a middle/window seat passenger wants to avail the facilities also could be a nuisance.
What do I do? Carry a lightand small luggage, go to restroom before I board, place the luggage only on top of my seat, get to my window seat, buckele up, smile at my neighbor once and say Hi, keep my hands and legs tucked well within my seat limits, make sure the seat is upright, then close my eyes, and reminess about the days when you got free stop over hotel stays, airline gifts and soveniers, airline bags, food and drink, pillows and blankets, candies, welcome and thanks greetings, etc.

1. they were not screaming
2. they were not kicking your seat
3. they were not standing over you, talking to a middle seat
4. they were not talking on a cell phone.(on a train for 4 hrs).

had all the above, which i consider rude.

get an ipod or equivalent, and a pair of shure Sound Isolating Ear-bud Headphones(under 100 bucks). and to quote that great american philosopher, CAPTAIN KIRK "get a life".

the shures are great. you cannot even hear the cabin announcements. screaming babies disappear.

the people still stand over you(usually united employees) and talk, and the damned kids still kick the seats.

When you're talking over VOIP.

I am not in favor of VOIP bans, but if we're going to have them, I'd like them to be extended to anyone who shouts, not just VOIP users.

People (not yelling) who are sitting next to each other talking? Rude? Not in my book. I prefer to sit quietly, but I would not in any way classify it as rude.

This recent thread will give you different POVs:

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/trave...me-flight.html

4 hour flight. I was taught that there are certain places you should be quiet.. Church, Doctors office, Elevators, Library, etc. Maybe I lived in Japan too long where people are polite on public transportation but I still think any crowded place like an airplane is not the place for 4 hours of smalltalk

I had a couple like this on my PHX-BUR flight last month. It was a young woman who was either drunk or just very loopy and an older man next to her. At one point while on the ground at PHX I sighed and she said "oh, am I annoying you?" to me?

During the flight I used my noise canceling headsets (best $300 I ever spent) but upon approach she was yapping again to the point where she poked me in the shoulder to offer me a business card. I dropped it in the seatback.

I don't mind people who talk, I just wish they'd leave me alone. Usually I wear my headsets and if I don't have them with me for whatever reason I can always ask them to keep it down.

Agree that there ARE places where silence is appropriate...

..but to equate an aircraft to a Church or Doctors office or Library??

Sorry... I don't see the match there... I usually travel alone (too?) but I would never demand that folks on a daytime flight travelling together should NOT talk to each other.... I actually think THAT is somehat rude....

Read the OP, non stop for 4 hours, not just casual conversation, It was a night flight that landed at midnight

Same thing happened to me yesterday on USAirways from PHX to STL. A couple a few rows back was chatting loudly the entire time, about all manner of ignorant stuff.

I was trying to sleep, and YES I HAD EARPLUGS but I could still hear them through the ear plugs.

Some grown ups need to use their inside voice.