Daily Mail has up on its website an entertaining read what passenger habits drive flight attendants nuts.
There is nothing earth shuttering on this article for those of us that tend to travel frequently, but it is funny regardless.
You can access this Daily Mails piece here.
Here are the things that anger flight attendants:
Doing exercises in the aisles or the galley
Passengers who notice empty seats in business class and ask to be upgraded
Passengers who ask flight attendants to put their bags in the overhead lockers
Asking cabin staff to call ahead to hold a connecting flight
Economy passengers asking to use the first class bathroom
Frequently asking to borrow pens
Leaving your headphones on while giving your drink order
Asking to arrange a switch between seats so a passenger can sit next to their friend
Conclusion
Have to admit that I was guilty of asking a pen from flight attendant this morning, so that I could fill out the immigration form. Luckily Qatar Airways stocks pens for this purpose (unlike some other airlines).
If an older passenger asks a flight attendant to help with his/her bag, I don’t see nothing wrong with this.
I could have added one more to the list above that the flight attendants with the legacy airlines in the United States seem to hate. They sometimes call the “call button” as flight attendant emergency call one implying that it should only be used in life threatening circumstances. I have no problem pressing it (and keep dinging) if I happen to need something.
You can also use any toilet on the plane, you are not restricted to your own class, despite what a stewardess might say.
they would not call it first class/business class toilets if everybody could use it. Business and First class passengers pay a lot more for a lot more comfort such as having a more spacious bathroom that they don’t intend to share to 300+ people..
stretching is essential for long flights..I purposely go to the galley to do this so as not to block the aisle… Quite surprised this made the list..
Surprised? Only the most self absorbed would say that.
The list just showed how nonsense the most flight crews are. It makes no diff with a pantry assistant yelling “I hate washing dishes most!”
They r paid to deal with human beings not drugged cattle nor cargoes. If they really hated that much, they should request to shift their rosters to cargo freights.
Yes, because cargo freights really need a lot of flight attendants.
Some of the things she considers annoying are actually part of her job. I fly mostly with asian and european airlines in economy, and half the times these services e.g use of pen, helping me store luggage, water before leaving, are offered to me by smiling friendly flight attendants. I am not surprised she works for a US airline, as the couple times I have flown with them, I noticed some flight attendants have really really bad attitude, and are clueless about customer service.
Their employer doesn’t cover them if they get injured lifting a pax bag overhead. Its written in to their contracts (they should get a decent union).
The thing that annoys me MOST is when I am boarding an on time flight but incompetent pax can’t find their seat (or don’t like it) won’t stow away their oversized luggage or block the walk way as if there is not a plane full of people waiting behind. I would like to point out it has yet to be an elderly pax delaying a flight, which i am happy to help, its usually a useless middle aged moron. #FlyBusinessClass
“Asking cabin staff to call ahead to hold a connecting flight ” – If the airline FAs work for had better on time stats this shouldn’t happen very often….I suggest FAs take this up with their employer rather than taking out on passengers.
“Asking to switch seats etc…” – again, FAs should probably take this issue up with their employer. As an EXP on AA I don’t have these issues but I’m aware how hard it can be for pax with no status to get seats together if they are, say, a family of 4 (even if they’re booking months in advance).
This list does nothing to make me more amiable towards FAs.
I have heaps of pens from Asian carriers, they come around with trays of them in business class and I’m sure they wouldn’t mind if economy pax asked for one. This are very cheap advertising for the airlines, it’s a shame more don’t make them more readily available…. well they are good advertising if it’s a pen functional enough to make me want to use it in the office or other places… the ones United puts in the C amenity kits are garbage and usually end up there after struggling to fill out the US Customs form with one, easier to reach into the overhead and take out an ANA one I usually keep in my computer bag.