I had this happen with the crucial scene in Catch Me If You Can. You could tell who was watching that movie because we all groaned at the same time. The FA claimed that the person making the annoucement was supposed to pause the movie first.

With sufficient application of force, one can almost always fit another bag up there.

@:-) A wise person does not put anything fragile in the overhead. @:-)

Biggest In-Cabin Pet Peeves
 

I have found this rather late. I will not relist everything that has gone before, however these may have been missed.
1. The person who see's the 'seatbelt' sign suddenly illuminate and decides that this is the ideal time to visit the bathroom.
2. The passenger, unfortunately usually female, whose carry on luggage is so heavy that they can't lift it into the overhead locker.
3. The passenger on a night flight, who is quite incapable of walking down the cabin without swinging out of the seat backs, like some large ape.

Why not take perks if u can get them?

Surprised that this one hasn't been posted yet--

FAs who do not enforce no-cabin crossing to use the C/F lav. I don't necessarily blame the Y passengers (after all, if a "rule" isn't going to be enforced, people are going to take advantage of it--human nature, but FAs should enforce rules if they are to be made at all)

On a recent transpacific flight on Austrian (2 COS), Y passengers freely crossed cabins to use the C lav. As a result, the lav was occupied almost 100% of the time during a 12 hr flight. One of the supposed benefits of C is a lower passenger to lav ratio. I usually have to get up several times during a long flight to use the facilities and view this low ratio as a valuable benefit. As a rev, there is a HUGE loss of value when I have to wait for a Y passenger to finish before I can use what I paid extra for. On this flight I had to wait in a queue EVERY time I got up to go.

The FAs even let a Y person hang out in C with her kid so she could let it crawl up and down the aisle. (Presumably because the Y aisle was too narrow?)

This was my first flight on Austrian. The lack of enforcement re: this issue was enough for me to reconsider using Austrian again.

1. people who fly with pets in the cabin. (chirping bird)
2. fat people on a nine hour flight, no matter how you sit in your seat, you're still touching.
3. the lady from row 30 who walks to the lav in the back by pulling on the back of every aisle seat as she goes by.
4. the guy who waits for the lav by resting his behind on my headrest.
5. the guy sitting next to me who wants to hold a long conversation, nevermind the fact that i'm half asleep and he keeps on saying "what's that?" cause he has a hard time understanding my accent.
6. the lady in front of me who insists on keeping her and her toddler's seats reclined all the way during the entire flight.

people with a bad odor that you can't get away from
even when you go into your carry on bag a retrieve a dash of cologne to put under one's nose (but not enough to over power anyone nearby)

The person with the screaming baby who apparently doesn't want to bother her own family with it, so she walks down the aisle and parks it in front of my seat. That seemed to happen pretty frequently on ATA, as their 757-300 aircraft have a huge space in front of exit row 11. People with ear-piercing infants seem to gravitate to that space. Thankfully, we usually sat in 10DE, a two-bagger across the way...close enough to witness it but not quote close enough to get the full-on aural assault. If YOUR family doesn't want to her your infants caterwauls, what makes you think that complete strangers do?

How about the people that lay their 4-inch-thick briefcase flat, put their purse/backpack beside it, and put their coat beside all of this still ... occupying a full bin section when all of this stuff could have occupied only 1/4 - 1/3 of the bin, properly stored. :mad: :mad: :mad:

(But yes, I do always ask before touching anything that is improperly stored in this manner ....)

"1. people who fly with pets in the cabin. (chirping bird)"

Ugh...

"2. fat people on a nine hour flight, no matter how you sit in your seat, you're still touching."

Agree, that FRA-JFK flight sucked... but one must realize that there isn't much *some* fat people can do about their fatness. On the other hand, if I see you wolfing down 3 Big-Macs and a extra super large cup of Coke... I have no pity for you and you're fair game in my book.

"3. the lady from row 30 who walks to the lav in the back by pulling on the back of every aisle seat as she goes by."

That's when you accidently stick your leg out right in front of her as she's walking back.

"4. the guy who waits for the lav by resting his behind on my headrest."

Oh well...

"5. the guy sitting next to me who wants to hold a long conversation, nevermind the fact that i'm half asleep and he keeps on saying "what's that?" cause he has a hard time understanding my accent."

Mmm....

"6. the lady in front of me who insists on keeping her and her toddler's seats reclined all the way during the entire flight."

Even during meal times? If so, that's rough but if she did bring them up doring meal times - nice, she has a right to keep them reclined rest of the time.

I had the aisle seat on a flight from SFO to BJS. The guy in the middle seat was wearing a Dale Earnhardt NASCAR shirt, which basically was my tipoff. He was a nice and friendly guy but he loved his Copenhagen.

Right after takeoff he grabs the vomit bag, opens it up and proceeds to use it as his spitoon. Pa-Toooey....Pa-Tooey all the way across the pacific. It didn't bother me that much but the gal in the window seat was grossed out.

We switched planes in Narita and I saw him again on the connecting flight. I didn't sit next to him this time, but I looked around and saw him with his *new* bag a few rows ahead of me. :cool:

Good first post LutherPDX, really like the sound effects :D
Oh, and welcome to FT.

And so what did you say to the FA about it? What you saw was a violation of regulations, and the FA should have been all over it. The regs specify that carseats may be placed only in positions where they "do not impede egress", which in practice means window position only, and not within a row of the overwing exits. When they are where they are supposed to be, they pose no danger of getting in anyone's way in an emergency. FA's have authority to relocate pax to allow for the proper placement of a carseat.

Seems to me that the proper way to describe this particular pet peeve is, "FA's not enforcing safety regulations."

Just had this one today - people who think their airline-related jokes /stories are so entertaining, they talk in a loud voice just hoping that everyone on the plane will join in and applaud / thank them.

This man was going on and on to his seatmate LOUDLY about how his wife cooks better than the airline food (groan). The female FA hit a male FA with the cart (by accident). The man screams: "That's sexual harrassment" and gives a big self-laugh. Then goes on to say to the male FA "It's only harassment if Her *SS (play on the word harassment) is too big." (another self-laugh) He also insisted on telling his seatmate how much he flies and how he knows a secret elevator that will get you to baggage claim faster...and on and on and on.

WHO CARES?!!

Thank you for letting me vent.

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T

My pet peeve is people that push to move up in the orderly row by row exiting of the airplane. Just wait until it's your rows turn.