#plane etiquette

[theadventurebuddies]

✈️ Are you ready to fly smarter and avoid those awkward travel moments? We’re covering Plane Etiquette | What NOT to do on a Plane, so you can make your next flight ✈️ smoother and more enjoyable for everyone!

[zeldabennetobserves]

One time I was flying somewhere and we have landed and it’s a crush to get off. I told my husband beforehand we should get up and grab our stuff ASAP so we aren’t waiting forever and we can get off quicker. One lady asks me if we are rushing because we have a connecting flight and I say no then it hits me. There is such a thing as plane etiquette. I don’t fly really so I never knew. The polite thing to do is to wait your turn. It’s not a race. I felt so embarrassed. I just had never even considered it before. Plane etiquette is a thing!

[i-dont-even-noa]

Why are we at a point where people are praised for not allowing families to sit together on planes. Why are we elevating people who would rather make people miserable than having the slightest bit of compassion. Why is it considered the right thing to do to cause distress and discomfort and hurt?

This is something that keeps coming up on my news feed, and every single time I feel a little less safe. I used to have to take planes several times a year to travel to and from my home town, and every time I would be petrified that I would be stuck in a wrong seat or separated from my mother. I was terrified that because someone was willing to pay more money than I could, I would have a panic attack or an episode mid flight, which would at the very best be humiliating, at the worst, physically damaging to me or another passenger. I can only imagine a child in the same situation- autistic or not- in a loud, enclosed space tens of thousands of feet in the air, forced to sit with a stranger, because some TikTok influencer publicly berated their parents for something they likely couldn't control. For asking for some basic sympathy, some human decency.

[randomrozansky]

Plane starts to land and a guy's phone diagonally behind me starts incessantly pinging. I don't care because we are so close to being off the plane freaking out about it won't make much of a difference. The women behind me however didn't agree and started LOUDLY losing their shit about how obnoxious it was. Then the guy's friend who was sitting in front of me chimed in about first world problems and the lady directly next to me decided to throw her unsolicited opinion in the mix and agreed how rude the phone pinging was. At this point 3 things happened: 1) a flight attendant told people to stay seated and made an understandable plea to the guy to put his phone on silent for the greater peace which he did 2) not wanting to have any part of this discussion and not wanting to be blamed for the rude comment from the woman next to me because I thought everyone was blowing everything out of proportion I worked on making my facial expression match my internal feeling of "I DO NOT HAVE A HORSE IN THIS RACE PLEASE DO NOT INVOLVE ME JUST CALL ME SWITZERLAND BUT REALLY DON'T CALL ON ME AT ALL" 3) I realized the adrenaline rush / taste of fearful creeper curiosity at how it would all play out in my mouth was exactly the feeling I've been missing now that I don't commute on the train every day. TL; dr - airplanes are my new LIRR but people are more restrained in their screaming because they have to stay buckled in and facing forward until we land.

[placeswellgoblog-blog]

A Guide to Basic Plane Etiquette

Flying is by no means as luxurious as it was in the days of Pan Am. Flights can be an office, time to nap, an opportunity to finish a novel, a chance to catch up with a friend, and for those that fear flying incredibly stressful. Airfare is expensive, but that ticket price does not give you the right to make your fellow passengers miserable. 

TONE DOWN THE LOUD CONVERSATIONS

I love flying with my sister. It's a chance to catch up, talk about our trip, and plan blog content. Unfortunately, not everyone cares how excited we are to return to Iceland. To be courteous we talk quietly, don't get too personal, and keep the conversations brief. After all, everyone paid to be on the flight and if they want to nap or read our discussion shouldn't disrupt that.  In general, do you want random people knowing tons of personal and identifiable information about you (this sounds like the beginning of an SVU episode)?

DON'T BRING SMELLY FOOD ONBOARD YOUR FLIGHT

One of my favorite airports to layover in is Philly solely because of their Chipotle. Although I love Chipotle, that doesn't mean everyone around me wants to smell Mexican food on the plane. After all what if a fellow passenger is one of those unfortunate souls that got listeria from Chipotle? I would hate to be the cause of someone's food poisoning PTSD (I still cannot even hear "cheese filled bread" after my Georgian food poisoning debacle). Eat your Chipotle in the airport while it's hot and keep the smelly food out of the cabin.

DON'T STEAL THE MIDDLE SEAT ARMREST

Raise your hand if you hate being in the middle seat.  Being in the middle seat is horrible, and the only consolation prize is that you get both middle armrests.  Stealing the armrest from your middle seatmate is like throwing it in their face that they lost the airline seat lottery. Don't be a jerk and let them have the armrest.

EXCESSIVE PDA IS NOT OK

Would you grope or make out with your significant other if your grandmother was sitting next to you? I would hope not! I know my Grandma Gloria would be sending me bible verses daily and I would "lose" my invitation to all family gatherings if I exposed her to that kind of behavior. A plane is not a hotel room. Your grandma may not be on your flight, but someone else's probably is. Save the PDA for your house or a hotel room and don't traumatize a grandma.

x smack

[drtrinaread]

People's flying habits can be less than desirable. My relationship column offers some plane etiquette and passenger pet peeves on CBC Homestretch with host Doug Dirks.

[fromnotebooks]

A Holiday Flight

I already started in the right direction by not feeding the initial stress with a drink on the flight. I'm sure it would have helped, but it would have been a temporary patch and a bad tone to set for a week full of family and blasts from the past.

After I had managed this, the people behind me started up a loud conversation. It pulled me out of the book I was reading. It also began to upset me. How dare they talk to each other? No one does that on planes. Ungrounded thoughts and feelings in the air. I must be vigilant to ensure they don't take over.

Because I couldn't read, I started writing. If they're going to be talking, I might as well be doing something similar. They may be thrusty and annoying, but there is no way for me to change that. Maybe it's my fault they exist in the first place, products of my infinite subconscious... think "inception"

Whatever they are, they're pushing me to write, so they can't be all bad.

[tripstyler-blog]

Feet Faux-Pas At 35,000ft

If you read tripstyler.com you know I'm big on plane etiquette. Last night on my flight home from Montreal, I witnessed so many feet faux pas I HAD to pen this ditty:

1/ if you are going to take your shoes off, put on socks and slippers. 

2/ do not walk around with bare feet or sox ---> the plane is not your barefoot-casual summer cabin, think of it as the always-wet tiles at a public pool {except at public pools they HAVE TO sanitize the tiles regularly. I can't say so much for plane carpet...}

3/ AND MOST IMPORTANTLY, do not use the lavatory unless you are wearing your shoes, or rubber-soled {washable} plane slippers