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This thread covers the 2015 Pre-Flight Air Travel Pet Peeves poll, conducted by Frequent Business Traveler magazine in conjunction with FlyerTalk.
You can view the results by clicking here
After reviewing the results, please also take part in the discussion below and talk about your favorite peeves or add peeves that weren't touched upon.
Next year's poll will be created using input from the current year's discussion so please do contribute in the thread.
You can view the results by clicking here
After reviewing the results, please also take part in the discussion below and talk about your favorite peeves or add peeves that weren't touched upon.
Next year's poll will be created using input from the current year's discussion so please do contribute in the thread.
What Are Your Top Pre-Flight Air Travel Pet Peeves? The 2015 — and First — Edition
Apr 20, 2015, 12:59 am
#61
Join Date: May 2010
Location: FSD
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Meaningless priority boarding: If half the aircraft has priority, it's a useless "benefit". I am looking at you, NZ. CX had it right ex-BNE. 3 lines: J/Marco Polo/OW super-duper elite, PE/some Marco Polo elite, Y.
Redundant announcements ad nauseum: LHR T5
Lacking food options: When I didn't have lounge access, it was nice to grab a cheeky bit of fast food (delicious & unhealthy was the treat before an infrequent Y flight). LHR T5 failed at that...I didn't want an overpriced seafood "fine dining" experience at Caviar House & Prunier....I wanted a friggin' McChicken (as declasse as it is to admit).
Clueless young families: Young family (with infants/toddlers) + inexperienced (at flying) parents = clogged security lines.
Multi-hour screamfests: Please try and calm your child down (it can't be normal to scream for 8 of 10 hours HKG-SYD) or re-consider the need to bring a 6 month old on a punishing intercontinental red-eye. The latter point isn't PC, but so be it.
Redundant announcements ad nauseum: LHR T5
Lacking food options: When I didn't have lounge access, it was nice to grab a cheeky bit of fast food (delicious & unhealthy was the treat before an infrequent Y flight). LHR T5 failed at that...I didn't want an overpriced seafood "fine dining" experience at Caviar House & Prunier....I wanted a friggin' McChicken (as declasse as it is to admit).
Clueless young families: Young family (with infants/toddlers) + inexperienced (at flying) parents = clogged security lines.
Multi-hour screamfests: Please try and calm your child down (it can't be normal to scream for 8 of 10 hours HKG-SYD) or re-consider the need to bring a 6 month old on a punishing intercontinental red-eye. The latter point isn't PC, but so be it.
Apr 20, 2015, 1:36 am
#62
Join Date: Mar 2007
Programs: QFF Gold, Flying Blue, Enrich
Posts: 5,366
When small 'emotional support animals' are pretty much turned loose in the terminal.
I'm an animal lover; I don't want to start my day watching a yappy yorkie 'ESA' get run over by another passenger's rollaboard because his owner won't pick him up in busy a part of the concourse.
I'm an animal lover; I don't want to start my day watching a yappy yorkie 'ESA' get run over by another passenger's rollaboard because his owner won't pick him up in busy a part of the concourse.
Apr 20, 2015, 8:07 am
#64
Join Date: Aug 2012
Location: VPS
Programs: IHG Diamond, Delta PM, Hilton Gold, Accor Gold, Marriott Silver
Posts: 7,268
I do have to give props to ATL in that regard. No, they aren't a big shopping airport where every terminal is a luxury emporium experience. But then how often am I really going to buy a $750 handbag? But except for In-and-Out, they've got pretty much every fast food or counter service restaurant option commonly seen in the USA, something I find a lot more useful when I'm passing through there than spendy handbags.
Apr 20, 2015, 9:18 am
#65
Join Date: Mar 2006
Posts: 1,638
1. failure to enforce boarding order. if it's not your turn, the scanner should not clear you.
2. the continued use of the term "direct flight" for more than one flight. give each liftoff/landing a separate number.
3. possibly delta-specific: if the gate has an info screen, make sure it displays upgrade and standby priority lists often. too often i had seen it cycle through english and spanish versions of garbage info, only to skip the upgrade list or show it once every 3-4 cycles.
4. unfair security lines. tsa shouldn't force me to take lane 1 if lane 2 is clearly shorter. one thing terrible about dulles in particular is that you can't tell which line is quickest.
2. the continued use of the term "direct flight" for more than one flight. give each liftoff/landing a separate number.
3. possibly delta-specific: if the gate has an info screen, make sure it displays upgrade and standby priority lists often. too often i had seen it cycle through english and spanish versions of garbage info, only to skip the upgrade list or show it once every 3-4 cycles.
4. unfair security lines. tsa shouldn't force me to take lane 1 if lane 2 is clearly shorter. one thing terrible about dulles in particular is that you can't tell which line is quickest.
Apr 20, 2015, 9:23 am
#66
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: gggrrrovvveee (ORD)
Programs: UA Pt, Marriott Ti, Hertz PC
Posts: 6,091
On boarding, it's less about enforcing boarding order and more about not managing the gate lice. My experience is most United, but it's absolutely ridiculous when the lines for groups 1 and 2 extend out beyond the gate area and into the terminal walkways, blocking the way of other passengers, employees, and even the carts that ferry passengers around.
Apr 20, 2015, 10:47 am
#67
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Join Date: Apr 2013
Posts: 26,288
Apr 20, 2015, 12:57 pm
#70
Moderator: British Airways Executive Club
Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: TPA/ABZ
Programs: BA Lifetime Gold. GGL/CCR.
Posts: 13,250
Self-important people in the lounge who share their phone conversations with everyone else often while wandering up and down and up and down.
Apr 20, 2015, 6:20 pm
#71
Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: Scarborough
Posts: 596
people who hog/take up extra seats in the gate areas when the area is very busy, so many can't take a seat because others are 'spread out' using multiple seats.....for whatever reasons.
It would be nice if people were more considerate and emptied space rather than others having to tell em to do it.
It would be nice if people were more considerate and emptied space rather than others having to tell em to do it.
Apr 20, 2015, 6:48 pm
#72
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: MSP
Programs: DL Gold, DL MM 8/22/16!
Posts: 2,563
people who hog/take up extra seats in the gate areas when the area is very busy, so many can't take a seat because others are 'spread out' using multiple seats.....for whatever reasons.
It would be nice if people were more considerate and emptied space rather than others having to tell em to do it.
It would be nice if people were more considerate and emptied space rather than others having to tell em to do it.
Romelle
Apr 20, 2015, 9:44 pm
#74
Join Date: Jan 2005
Programs: BA Gold, AA Lifetime Gold 1.8mm, IC Spire Ambassador, Hilton Diamond, SPG Gold et al
Posts: 4,350