3. Promise to finish off the whole bottle before landing.

4) The person next to you (behind you, infront of you) is playing their music so loud you can hear it through their headphones...[/QUOTE]

Better this than singing. Have had that happen on more than one occasion now.

I find much more annoying the obtuse "I know you want to talk to me" people. If I want to talk to you, I'll let you know the first time you say something. The fact that I keep turning my head away, have my earbuds in, and do everything but smack you with my wedding ring should say something.

But then, it usually isn't the ff's that do this, but the occasional traveler.

Read another forum on "do not disturb" signs. Maybe I'll snag one from my upcoming trip and wear it should anyone obnoxious sits by me.

1 - Wake them up and let them know they're snoring loudly. If you're not comfortable with that just tell me, I do it all the time! "Sir, I'm so sorry to wake you but I wanted you to know that you're snoring very loudly. Is there anything i can do to help you sleep more soundly?"

2- If I'm sitting in a window seat I always at the very least say hello to my seatmates and then "If I have to get up to the restroom I may have to wake you up, I hope that's okay." I have never been met with any sort of attitude. People usually understand and if you bring it up right away then it's out of the way and they know to expect it.

3- If you want it order it! Now, don't go ordering something on final descent, there is an appropriate time to expect service and we all should know what those are. However it should NEVER be a pax concern about things like wasting a bottle of wine.
**That being said I hope people don't push issues like this on purpose just to "test the system" even in customer service there is such a think as common courtesy ie if you ALWAYS request a can and never finish it... then maybe you shouldn't be requesting a can.**

4- As a FA I'm always on the lookout for things like this. Same thing with people watching DVD's without headphones. I always politely ask to turn it down and if it's a fun group of pax then when I make the 10K PED announcement I'll say something like, "Remember not everyone bought a ticket to your concert or movie so please enjoy them quietly without disturbing those seated around you." People are usually more than willing to comply.

So much of this goes back to common courtesy and respect (which sadly our society seems to have lost). It seems people don't care about anyone but themselves, it's ALLL about ME ME ME and screw everyone else and WHAT am I owed and WHERE was I wronged and WHO get the blame. Maybe instead of economic stimulus checks we should have all received a packet of starter pills to alleviate the uptightness.

Happy Flying!

1) Use your noise cancelling headphones.. you can buy re-packed Sony in-ear ones for less than 50USD.

Or, as my friends did on holiday.. put a peg on his nose.. soon solves the problem!!

2) Wake them up.. better than pissing your pants.

3) Well.. if you are in coah you get personal bottles. If in C, F you paid for it so they can just get on with cracking open the bottle..

However, remember that those unlucky enough to be in the third-wor.. um.. cabin could only dream of nice wine, so you have a duty not to waste a drop.. so get quaffing!!

4) Put your noise cancelling headphones on (see above)... if not.. start dancing to the music.. he'll soon get the picture!

Wow, your etiquette questions are rather tame and it's obvious that you care about truly doing the right thing. So let's amp it up a little and have some real fun!

What do you do when:

A) the kid behind you kicks your seat during the entire flight and, when you appeal to the parent, are met with a helpless shrug?

B) The person behind you is playing Space Invaders with the AVOD unit mounted in the back of your seat, and you feel like he's poking the back of your head instead of the screen?

C) You're extremely gassy and the seat belt sign's been on for the last 2 hours?

D) The person next to you (or you) has a cold and has to blow his/your nose every 5 minutes?

E) You're in the center seat and the aisle passenger is chatty with the window passenger?

F) You can smell the diaper of the baby in the next row?

G) There's a drunken party going on during your red-eye with the 50 people traveling together in rows 15-23?

H) You're in a bulkhead seat and there's no overhead storage left?

I had to laugh when I saw this because in all of the flight attendant manuals that I've had at various carriers they all say:

"Encourage the victim (as it's in the Emergency First-Aid Chapter) to pass the gas. Do not encourage them to hold it in."

1. deal with it it. wont kill ya. 2. wake their a*s up. 3. finish off the bottle. 4. deal with it. it wont kill ya.

Call over the FA and let them deal with it.

Call over the FA and let them deal with it.

Get up anyway.

Nothing. Perhaps redirect the air vent to blow his germs away from you.

Offer to switch seats, explaining that you're trying to sleep and it's very difficult with them talking over you.

Call over the FA and INSIST they deal with it.

Ask for the purser, flash your elite status card and say, "please deal with it."

If you have status, call over the FA and POLITELY as if they can deal with it.

OK, I'll play. I wonder how far off I am from the norm....

1) Guy snoring in daytime. This is my problem how exactly? I'll leave it to somebody else to let him know he snores. So not my problem...

2) When you gotta go, you gotta go. I go. Sorry. I already know I have a walnut sized bladder and I do my best to request the aisle. But when I do have a window, thanks to the cruel caprice of fate, see under "when you gotta go, you gotta go." On the other side of this, I am always surprised when window seats profusely apologize to me for having to perform a basic human function. It's OK. You don't have to explain. I've been there. You're cool. I get no pleasure out of you sitting there suffering and twitching in silence, believe you me. I fully understand that at some point the price of having the aisle seat is being willing to let the window and middles out to do their business.

3.) And that's my problem how exactly?

4.) Again, that's my problem how? I am not their mother or their audiologist.

Your questions are a little tougher. We're getting to the advanced stuff now, I guess.

A) I don't discuss with parents and/or kids. I call the FA and let staff deal with it.

B) Never had this happen. I guess I would call the FA. Does anyone really play those games?

C) I'm afraid I get up and "go" anyway. I've only been yelled at once. Most times, the staff understands.

D) I never say anything. I guess I just assume they have allergies and being an allergy person myself I know how awkward they must feel. If you have a cold once a year you can stay home. But if you have allergies you have to go on living your life because it's pretty much permanent. I'm so glad that [brand name that starts with a C] works for me even in the very dry cabin environment.

E) I usually try to be polite and pretend I'm not eavesdropping, but having lived in Louisiana so long, sometimes I can't resist putting in my two cents if the discussion is really interesting.

F) I have a poor sense of smell and can't recall this ever happening. I suppose I would tell the FA if someone else didn't do it first.

G) I know this has happened and can't recall what I did but that probably means that I was happy to join in and down a couple of unnecessary Jack and cokes myself.

H) I ask the FA what to do about my bag and at least once this meant I had to remove all valuables and gate-check the bag. Have a small bag for the cameras etc. that are not allowed to be checked baggage so that the FA can put it in their closet. They'll work with you on this.

Did I pass?????

How about the people who let their 12-15 year old children, have their laptops out and play music "loudly" for that matter (loudly meaning you can hear it from row 4 to row 20) with no headphones on just streaming. Absolutely, ridiculous.

I cannot imagine this happening.

Little girl once had a diaper so foul on a plane that *I* needed to change my pants (she was on my lap). My sense of smell isn't the sharpest, but for her comfort--and my desire not to deal with diaper rash--I'd change a bad diaper as soon as feasible. If someone is letting their kid sit in their own stink like that, I can't imagine what's going on at home.

Likely I'd not say anything and let the parent deal with the unpleasant consequences later. Airplane bathrooms are small, but you can change a diaper in them.