karatelovr

Ok, to have a little fun, and because some of this stuff keeps me up at night ( ), I thought I'd throw a few situations out here and see what the "polite" thing to do is.

Most flyers know the basic etiquette rules such as boarding when your zone is called, and allowing the airplane to deplane starting with the people in front of you....ok, maybe not "most flyers" but certainly everyone here

But what about some other situations what should you do when:

1) The (very) loud snorer is near you - either on a short flight or a long one - but especially on a flight where one normally doesn't sleep (not a redeye for example)...

2) you have a window seat and you need to go to the bathroom and the person next to you is asleep and /or the 1, 2, or 3 people in front of you have their seat reclined (note, even in first class, this makes getting up pretty impossible)...

3) You order a (another) glass of wine about 40 minutes before landing. The flight attendant would have to open a fresh bottle just to accommodate you...

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

Diplomatico

1. Put on your headphones.

2. Wake the aisle person up and say excuse me.

3. So?

4. Put on your headphones.

karatelovr

3) see, I felt guilty and just asked for a beer instead!

jhayes_1780

While all are god questions.... Unfortunately, they have little to do with UA.... maybe OMNI?

og

The FA shouldn't make an issue out of opening a new bottle. Totally inappropriate for them to make the passenger feel guilty in that respect.

As for the music turned up too loud, I'd ask the FA if they could ask the noisy one to turn it down.

roberto99

Regarding the wine: 5 years ago, in C and F, when that would happen, I would tell the FA, "No, let's not waste a bottle like that. I'll just have a _____ ." And 9 out of 10 times the FA would thank me and later during the seat belt check hand me a bottle of my favorite wine wrapped in a napkin to take with me!

That is pretty rare now.

PTravel

I probably wouldn't hear it through my headphones with my iPod on. However, I've always said that, if I snore, I'd have no problem with my seat mate giving me a gentle shake.

Been there, done that. I'll wait as long as I can and then, apologizing profusely, wake my seat mate. It doesn't matter if the seats in front are reclined -- I can get out as long as I don't have to climb over someone.

Not my problem. I've paid for C or F, and that's part of the very, very limited perks granted by the higher-priced ticket.

That rarely happens now with earbuds and over-ear phones, though it used to happen quite a lot with the open air variety that are all but extinct. Again, I wouldn't hear it with my own phones on. I have, on rare occasions, encountered people (well, children, actually) who will use a DVD player or one of those hand-held games without phones. I complain to the FA who promptly shuts them down.

mahasamatman

Are you kidding? Since the advent of earbuds, it's become an epidemic! Those are often louder to the people around than for the person wearing them. On the subway, you can sometimes hear them about 4 or 5 rows away.

l etoile

Since this isn't UA specific, please follow this in Travel Buzz.

l'etoile
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Emeraldcity

Definitely agree with that one. My last flight had a guy in the row ahead and across the aisle from me and I had to listen to his crappy rap music for a 3 hour flight. He was asked several times to turn it down and he would for a second and then turn it right back up. Obviously he is deaf as a post from listening so loud in the first place he couldn't hear it any other way.

Too bad we all had to suffer with it as well.

PTravel

I've honestly never noticed. I'll have to conduct a test with Mrs. PTravel -- I'd hate to think that I'm bothering other people and, if so, I'll switch back to my less comfortable but more sound-proof Bose.

skylady

There is no reason that an FA should decline to open that last bottle. It is catered for pax use, not to be saved for a rainy day.

You can wake the snorer if you want, but he's just going to fall back asleep and snore again!

KTW

1.. I do nothing because I am watching a DVD so it is not an issue.

2.. Not an issue because I can't have a window seat due to being too Sasquatch-like.....I would try not too wake my wife next to me (remember she is disabled so I have to be with her).....If I was petite but still could not get pass I would ask the pax(s) in front of me to please move the seat so I could pass.....If they were asleep same same as they nor I have a choice.

3.. I do not drink alcohol.....My wife brings her own so it would not occur.

4.. See answer 1...

Hvr

Here's the results of an Australian newspaper's blog about airline etiquette.
http://blogs.smh.com.au/travel/archi...lpage#comments

Am sure that there are lots of things written about here that will mean people do not have to write about them here. But when they are written here they will still be as funny.


The following entry really summed it up for me:

JoeJetplane

lol!!