In certain parts of the world there are people that try to cut in line at the x-ray machine and I mean right at the belt. I just had it happen again in DXB while I loading my bag on the belt, I reach for my second bag and some lady is trying to jump in. I push her back and she is surprised that I wont let her push her way in. Not to mention that I am also in uniform during the event. Some people.

What does one abhor about the vicissitudes of life itself?

For me it's the possibility of serious injury or death to loved ones (and I also love myself).

Accordingly, I abjure unsafe flying situations.

And do you adjure others to do the same?

Rest adjured. :D

I can stand a screaming baby. What's worse is a flatulent baby. It was like every couple of minutes the cabin started to stink. I thought it was the pax behind me. But when we arrived, I saw the baby who stunk up the plane.

People who bark orders at the FA's like they were personal servants.
Happens most often in F

The whole thing. Beginning to end. Flying sucks.

Too bad we don't have high speed rail. Acela's what we call high speed rail? Pathetic. For real high speed rail, take a look at the TGV.

...when I'm not on a plane...

More generally, I hate it when airport administration and airline staff do not set up and enforce reasonably efficient systems for line-ups (which usually happens in the countries where people are least likely to have the orderly queuing gene - e.g. France).

TSA shoe carnival!

Also hate spreading seatmates. You know the ones, the men who spread their legs apart and read the NY Times open completely.

aka the Trained Shoe Analysts

I can deal w/just about everything & everyone else, but they & all their carnivals (shoe, water, etc), just make me crazy :mad:

I thought "adhor" in the thread title was a contraction of "adore" and "abhor," i.e. what is it you love to hate?

Since this appears to be another "pet peeves" thread (I love "pet peeves" threads), I'll add mine:

1. Screaming babies and ill-controlled toddlers (and their parents).

2. Kettles and Gomers who (a) hold up the security line while they systematically question whether every metal item on their persons must be removed, and/or (b) hold up boarding as they try to cram their over-stuffed satchels into the overhead.

3. Asking for a window seat and finding it's one of those window-less wall seats.

4. Turbulence (moderate to severe).

5. Being told, "the flight is delayed," when the airline knows full well that it is canceled.

6. Tight seat pitch.

7. Seat-poachers, bin hogs, seat-back grabbers and under-seat-space-stealers.

seat kickers, certainly. Had one to Ireland one year (from Miami) and when I turned around to ask her to stop, her mother said 'oh, it couldn't have been MY child!' Who else could it be, Mother Teresa??

Heavy perfumers - try washing with soap instead of covering your offensive odor with a heavy scent, and you won't burn out the olfactory senses of the entire cabin!!

Loud talkers. Yes, I know that the noise of the plane deadens your eardrums. However, you needn't shout so loud I can hear you through the noise AND the earplugs!

Ditto!

Hear hear! In my experience the most common culprits fall into two categories:

1) Those who grew up spending with Daddy's credit card
2) Those who can't really afford First (not the really poor, but the lower-middle class) but got into the F cabin on a promo or some prize

At the all-inclusive resorts in the Caribbean I also see a lot of #2. They order the staff around like they were slaves; no such thing as "please" or "thank you". Both my wife and I get really hot under the collar when we see that.