Disgusting Airline Passenger Manners
 

It seems that during the last year, I have found that fingernail clipping on board during a flight (my ears perk up to the undeniable sound of clink, clink, clink), has become an "acceptable habit" among passengers. Lately I have also found many nail and hand "chewers" within close proximity. And finally, on my fairly frequent European trips (both back and forth), I can usually put money on the fact that I will personally witness at least one nose picker during the flight. I am not asking for a suit and tie on every flight, but what is happening here?

I swear that sometimes I'm sitting next to the only person on the flight that is passing gas!!!

How do you check you are right on that? http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/wink.gif

What is happening on planes simply reflects what is going on in society as a whole: fewer people caring about how they behave in public or if they're encroaching on the sensibilities of others. So far, I've been spared public nail clipping, but the yak-yak-yak of people on cell phones literally everywhere is about to drive me nuts.

Please add to that list men (I have not yet seen any ladies do this) who take bulkhead seats and seat with their feet up on the bulkhead with or perhaps worse without socks. People who click click click away on their laptops which squeak every time a key is depressed. The Gas and nail chewing is unpleasant, but I can forgive those as they may well be as result of fear of, or the effects of flying. You are right about society, but it is sadly typical. i just dread to think what they do in their own homes if that is how people conduct themselves in public!

That is how to avoid thrombosis.

And, I presume that picking one's nose avoids a build up of pressure?

My biggest complaint is when someone starts moving my bag or just forces there bag on top of mine in the overhead with out asking. I watched a lady do this last week on a flt to lhr and I asked her not to put her bag on top of mine(I was in a bulkhead seat) she told me find a place then if you don't want me to do it. I showed her the space under the seat in front of her. What a look I got but not another word came out of her mouth.

I am a strong believer that if you treat people like animals, they become animals. I think the airlines need to reconsider how they herd people into the airplanes, into a small space that would otherwise be reserved, in the outside world, for the likes of a cat.

I think that a lot of passengers feel strongly that the small space they have paid for is theirs for their own liking, and do as they please.

What else can one do to occupy oneself for hours on end in a cramped box? If you're strapped in your seat, it's the perfect time to clip your fingernails, as long as you collect and dispose of the clippings properly.

The nose drilling is a different story altogether. What's worse is watching someone actually eat the matter they have scraped out of their nostrils.

As usual, though, I speak from the back of the airplane as I'm usually flying economy class.

There are two things that annoy me and thankfully the first is realatively rare and the second was a one time only event but - Oh so strange.

The first is women putting on nail polish during the flight.

The second happened on a flight from NRT - KIX. The person sitting next to me would yank out a hair from his head and eat it. He did this for most of the flight. After a he did this for a few times, the FA discretely asked me if I would like to move as she had a seat for me upstairs. I took it!

Some people just lack good old fashion class. . .

I truely do not understand this, as I am 25, and have class, and manners. . .

I would have to add snoring to the list as well. For some reason, I can't stand that sound. But, it is my problem and I never bother a seat mate that is snoring. Live and let live, whenever possible.

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It might be appropriate to distinguish between voluntary and involuntary behavior. I have trouble criticising a person for snoring, for example! Nose-picking is another thing entirely.

Bruce

I am a snorer, and thus I try at all costs not to fall asleep on a flight. But I am one who is "guilty" of putting my feet up on a bulkhead with clean and fresh socks. It is difficult to do this with business shoes on.

I usually won't do this if there is someone next to me, but if noone is next to me, who is being harmed. And why are you looking at my feet anyway? http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/wink.gif

Snoring I can forgive and hopefully ignore. I think it is involuntary. What bothered me the most was when, enroute from NRT to SFO, the person next to me took off his shoes. I was in WBC seat 1A. He was in 1B. His previously white socks, (I assume) were dark gray and black. The stench was so bad that I inquired about another seat. No luck! The flight was full. All I could do was direct my vent to try to fan the offensive odor away from my seat.I tried to stay as close to the window as possible. It was a very, very long flight.

-RKG