I do agree with the need for sane and orderly deplaning, but I usually, if there's space to do so without crowding anyone, grab my bag from the overhead and get everything assembled out in the aisle, so that when my turn comes to get down the aisle and off the plane, no one has to wait for me to get my stuff together and get out of the way.

There does usually seem to be a sense that we're participating in an evacuation, not an ordinary emptying of an aircraft, but I can understand wanting to stand up--people want to stretch their legs at the first opportunity (unless they've been standing in the aisle the entire time on a two-hour flight, another thing I can't understand).

1 - crowding the gate long before your zone is called to board. S2.... Sit down, Shut up and wait your turn. Why make it a real pain for those who will be boarding before you and have to fight thru the crowd to get to the gate??? :mad:

2 - as soon as the bell sounds, people jumping up to grab ther carry on's and crowd the isle impatiently waiting for those in front of them to get off the plane. S2 again. If you are in the back of the plane, common sense says you ain't gettin off any quicker by standing in the isle huffing and puffing, unless you start climbing across the seats :mad: ........... exception, if you are trying to make a tight connection, by all means, go first. I try to let anyone in this situation go before me if all possible. I've been there, I know how they feel.

3 - piling on top of each other at the baggage claim. :mad: Great balls of fire people, step back 2 steps, then everyone can see their bags come thru.

Why can we behave like perfect ladies and gentlemen in our personal and business lifes but lose all of our manners and common sense when we fly???:confused:

Another peeve...
 

The person at the luggage carousel who checks the name label of every...single...bag! I know that a lot of bags look the same nowadays, but you'd know if the hot pink one was yours... wouldnt you??

oh another... the person who is watching the entertainment with headphones on and finds it SO hilarious that they just have to laugh out loud- especially on overnight transcontinental flights- arghh!! NOT FUNNY!

Sick people on airplanes. Though there's really no resolution to this. Short of being near death, how does an airline tell someone they can't fly because they've been deemed "sick".

But still, it sucks when you have to sit next to someone who's weezing, coughing, and/or hacking fluids up for eight hours straight.

People have been complaining about those that hug the luggage carousel; a valid complaint. But I am one of those not by choice, but usually because if I don't, someone will come up and stand in front of me in the three feet of space I've left between myself and the carousel. Bonus points for those who try to jam a luggage cart in between me and the carousel.

Also, people who think they're the cat's pajamas because they've been upgraded to first class. That elitist attitude wears on me.

Caution: the "politically correct" should not read this.
 

Open Letter:

Dear very large and wide fellow passenger:

Please Sir or Madam,
If your body cannot fit reasonably well into one (1) single coach seat on Southwest Airlines, or upon any regional jet; please do the right thing, and consider buying two (2) seats, or as many seats that it takes to reasonably store your vast wide frame. You see, most of the rest of us need at least one (1) full coach seat of our very own to place both cheeks of our butts, one regulation size stomach, two regulation size legs, and at least one of our very own regulation size arms. If you are flying on American, Northwest, Delta, etc., please make the investment into a first class seat. You will be more comfortable, and.....so will we.

Appreciatively,

This is one of the most cliche'd threads, but it's one of my favs. I LOVE these things.

These have already been mentioned, but I'll toss another log on their fires if anyone's keeping track:

1. Gum crackers- Oh man, I hate that.
2. Gate lice
3. FA's stomping up and down the aisles
4. Slow moving people, whether it be on moving walkways, jet bridges, aisles of planes, terminal, etc. Airplanes/airports are a time sensitive place, got it?

OK, I hope I don't get flamed here, but here are some pet peeves from the other side.

When a pax w/ small children boards and has seats all over the a/c-usually a GA tells them the fa's will help find them seats together. :mad: I hate being put in that situation-especially when they are all middle seats.

When a pax asks for coffee........and I have to ask them how they take it-black, cream, sugar, or equal? I know, it's a small thing, but when you have to ask a couple of hundred times a day, it gets tired fast.

Basically the loss of common courtesy and civility when traveling is probably my biggest pet peeve.

Ditto on pax's who insist their carryon fly F or E+ when they are in E-/standing left on the moving walkways.

I so much agree! I have found that it is more common in certain cities than others. DEN for one. This situation has caused injury to passengers on more than one occasion that I was involved in. It goes like this....

Everyone is standing next to the carousel and my bag ventures down the line. I say "excuse me, I need to get my bag" very politely several times. As my bag approaches I am "allowed" next to the carousel. I grab my bag by the handle and start to lift. Since I cannot jerk the bag clear of the carousel quickly enough (bags were about 45-50 lbs. each time), the belt carries the bag a little farther and it swings in the direction of the belt's movement. The bag ends up on the floor next to me if nobody is standing there. I have hit people on two occasions when the bag came around.

The person each time was a little upset as it clearly hurt and gave me some cross stares. I did apologize, but I didn't feel that much remorse. It was kind of like standing behind a swinging door, when it hits you are you to be mad at the person coming through?

1) Boarding everyone though one door when the plane typically has 6-8 doors. what genius came up with this? Love to see what they will do on the A380....

2) People who board and then park themselves in the aisle, fumbling about with putting away their baggage. At least have the courtesty to stand insid your row and do your fumbling. And you bag can easily be placed into the overead locker from the aisle seat - you dont need to hold up 200 people behind you for this - pure common sense.

Braggers. need I say more?

and you know they havent just connected from a long flight and this is the first food they have had all day how?

Good to see I'm not alone.... all the above are very familiar to the frequent traveller! :)
My top two:

The two slow walkers who are first off in the jetway, oblivious to the traffic jam building behind of people with business or connections to make.

Where do the five or six small children come from, that happily play at the front of the baggage carousel belt? (And the parents standing behind, happy for the kids to block people from their bags!)

Here's a Couple of Mine . . .
 

1. sitting in an aisle seat, and being jostled by pax/FAs walking up and down the aisle.

2. Boarding in F in DL's zone 1, and then having pax on the way back to Y swing their carry-on bags and hit me in the head.

3. Getting a dirty look from the pax between me and the aisle when I need to get up to use the lav.

Sorry, not all of us large and wide people can afford First Class or buying two seats, and I don't really think it's a reasonable request. I do my best not to offend, and I understand why you feel the way you do, but I'm not about to stop flying because my butt isn't "regulation". We all inconvenience each other in various ways (granted, some more egregious than others) and it's just a part of travelling on public transportation --- just like me putting up with the next guy's screaming kids or infectious disease. I really dislike being seated in the vicinity of unruly children or sick people, but hey --- they have a right to fly, too, so I deal with it. If you hate being seated squeezed in coach next to a fat person so much, consider doing doing yourself the favor of flying First Class.

I am a baggage claim hog! I go right from the flight to baggage and I go right to where the bags will be coming out and I stand so my shins are touching the edge of the carousel! HA! Take that! :)

I do this because if I don't, inevitably someone will just walk and stand in front of you. I wait patiently, I help anyone else who needs help to get their bag, and I leave as soon as I get my bag. But I am tired of seeing a crowd around the carousel (sometimes 3 or 4 members of the same family lined up taking up more than their justified space) and then chasing my bag around the carousel trying to find a gap or a pax willing to move a little to let me in.

On the other hand if there is a line and no room and my bag is coming, I will just find the nearest point where I can get it and say "excuse me" and grab it. If people don't move, they get whacked with my bag and I don't care at all. If your bag is not in eyesight, an someone else's is, MOVE to let them get it folks!

My biggest pet peeve are the twits who stand in the aisle (usually the ones who board early with kids, or who sneak on in a higher boarding level group than they should have) and then they stand in the aisle with their bag on top of the seat putting their jacket in the bag, and their laptop, and getting the candy for little Joey, and checking to see if they have that map they got that shows how far they had to walk, etc. You just look at them blissfully ignorant of the fact that ~200 other people are being held up by them standing there getting themselves situated just right. I hate those folks.

I don't mind gate lice so much - I am one too, but I NEVER block the throughway. When everyone gets up and moves to the gate, I do too - because if you don't you end up at the back of your boarding group, and if you are already zone 7, you gotta get on there to find some overhead space.