Passengers who violate the size restrictions on carry-ons (and airline personnel who let them get away with it).

Passengers who have such oversize luggage and stand in the aisle with 100 people behind them, trying to find an overhead bin that will hold their steamer trunks

Passengers who stand in the middle of the aisle with 100 people behind them trying to figure out whether 30A is in the front or back of the plane or whether it's right behind 15A.

Nachos rule!

As a fellow MCO person, I agree 200%.

So true..

I would also add, those that do not know a window seat from an aisle seat from a middle seat.

And those pax with back packs that routinely turn around just to hit you in the head.

And how about the parents that carry their kids so thta their feet kick you as they pass.




I do not have such an issue with the barrell drink, until they hog up the lav...

What about the oriental food carriers.. That has a way of changing the smell of a plane. They also tend to hog up the lav........:confused:

And what about those people in coach that insist on forming a line in FC to use the front lav that the FA told them not to use, much less form a line for it.:confused:

Wow, I agree with everything posted so far. ^

I'd like to add:

Lazy/inconsiderate people who store their stuff in the forward area bins but are seated behind the wings.

People who spill-over and intrude into my personal space (unless it's my uber hott gf or someone of equal or greater caliber).

I can't stand the morons that sling giant bags over their shoulders as they slog through the aisle, oblivious to the bruises they are generating on the passengers already sitting in the aisle seats. :mad: Carry the bag in front of you, moron!:mad:

Not to mention the person in the aisle across from me that feels compelled to introduce their fat butt to my face as they bend over to futz with their stuff. Try kneeling down for once, you large-butted putzes!

Some to add to the list:

People who have not been on an airplane since the Eisenhower administration and feel compelled to loudly compare their flight experience from 1958 to now.

The flight hyena who must laugh loud enough to drown out the jet engines while watching the inflight movie.

Oh the list is long, but I'll aim for the guy that sat next to me on US 180 yesterday (you know who you are if you're reading this, but I suspect he's king of the evil Kettles).

* Boarding late and shuffling bags around to avoid a gate check. This took about 5 minutes for him to figure out.
* Being incredulous at the lack of space in the overhead bins (I told him that it's been pretty normal for some time now, but he scoffed.)
*Highly aromatic food on a 5 AM flight!
*Chatting with his wife part of the time on a 5 AM flight.

And the kicker:

* Chewing tobacco. I can't tell you how much I'd have rather he were smoking.

On the plus side, he didn't get up multiple times.

I'm half tempted to write up a trip report on my experience. This doesn't even scratch what happened.

"Amature" PAX annoy me. Not that I expect everyone to travel as much as I do, but some things are just common sense..like

1:not standing at the top of the jetway blocking foot traffic after deplaning while trying to orient themselves

2: taking off ALL your metal stuff, including jewelry, at the xray machine

3: not seat squatting, as in taking someone else's seat because it's better

4: not bringing smelly junk food from the terminal burger king onto the plane..smells up the place, you get food everywhere, and YOU will suffer when it gets bumpy and you have to digest that crap and pee the big gulp soda when the seatbelt light is on.

5: Chatty people. Just because we are sitting together, it doesn't make us best friends. We don't have to talk.

6: Ignoring the seatbelt sign. There is always someone who thinks it doesn't apply to them

7: Chatting with your friends by standing in the aisle..DURING BOARDING

8: Being generally retarded...asking the off-airport parking shuttle driver if they go to on-airport parking...wondering where row 11 is when you are by row 7...asking the janitor where your flight is...superstitious behaviors like touching the fuselage on boarding..deplaning in sexist terror when finding out the pilot is a woman....

I think you'll find that several FTers touch the fuselage on boarding. You've really seen pax deplane when finding out the pilot is a woman? :rolleyes:

Its all been said over and over at FT. But the best paxs understand that this is a small metal tube being occupied by usually more than 100+ people on a mainline flight. Its not your comfy living room at home and you should respect that there are other paxs.

My two biggest pet peeves are gate lice (which can be eliminated to a certain extent by a good GA) and paxs that block the aisle during boarding taking forever to put their bags up. I fly almost always in F (domestic flights) and it seems that F paxs are the worst. Since they are the first ones on they often do not seem to understand that there are probably another 150or so paxs that still need to board and stow baggage. My "favorite" is the husband and wife that have a full blown argument about what bags to put in the overhead bin.

Overall, I try to block out the remainder of the paxs and concentrate on my IFE (if available), music, books, and whatever food and drink that is being served.

my latest complaint is people who, when deplaning, wait in the aisle for every person in every row ahead of them to exit before they walk forward. This just slows down the process while we all have to wait for the geriatrics, invalids, people with kids, and those that stowed their bag 4 rows behind their seat to fuss and organize while we all wait for them. The rule is: if the aisle is clear, and you have your things in your hand, please start walking forward, even if people in the rows ahead of you are still collecting their things. This frees up the aisle further back and lets more people organize their things, speeding up deplaning.

If you're the one letting everyone exit before you, you're not being polite, you're slowing the rest of us down unnecessarily.

Pax carrying over-the-shoulder luggage who hit passengers who are already seated.
A seatmate who cranks up the volume when they listen to music with a Walkman — the loud noise is irritating. It's twice as irritating when the gentleman in front of you has also done so and you hear them both.
Those who grab the seat in front of them when they get up - and I'm in that seat
Kicking the seat in front of them - the one I'm sitting in
And finally, the PAX who play dice and card games - loudly.

Pax giving me a evil look, when I start to read the Playboy magazine I just bought at the airport.

I agree, but usually the aisle is not clear because passengers gathering their things often stand in the aisle unnecessarily. In many cases, it is possible to get stuff from the overhead bin while standing in the aisle seat instead of the aisle, but most people stand in the aisle when getting stuff from (or putting stuff in) the overhead bin.