You know what’s wrong with the airline industry? No, it’s not the excessive fees, it’s not the hassle of security, it’s not even the surly attitude airline personnel give their customers. It’s the people around you on the plane. They are the ones who do such annoying things that so easily blame the airline industry for.
Case in point: fat people. Noted fat person and movie director Kevin Smith was recently kicked off a Southwest plane (while it was on the ground) for being fat. Smith said he realizes he is chubby, but that his weight was not great enough to warrant being kicked off of a flight.
For those of you who have not had the experience, some airlines will now make you buy a second seat if you are unable to fit into one comfortably. It’s like cap and trade for calories. If there are no two seats next to each over available, you much vacate the craft.
No one likes to be squished by the person next to them on a plane. But really, we can come up with more annoying traits of passengers that should be punished. And if there is a fee for them, it should be given to passengers in the immediate area, not to the airline itself.
Throughout their lifetime, the average person will fart on occasion, even girls. But that doesn’t mean it’s OK to fart on a plane. First of all, it’s a crowded space, and that just means more victims than the normal fart, but secondly, and dangerously, planes use recycled air during their flights. That means if someone farts, it will get redistributed throughout the cabin several times over. But enough farts together, and we’re talking continuous stink cycle.
Children are considered people by some. To me, they are sociopaths. They care little for manners, decorum or scruples, and they constantly have to be the center of attention. This only gets worse on a plane. These non-paying passengers feel it is there right to make everyone else’s flight misterable. Wah! I’m not used to sitting still for more than 20 minutes! I’m afraid of heights! The mean captain made me turn off my game thingy! Grow up. Oh, that’s right, you can’t.
Arguably the worst thing to happen to any form of mass transportation is the ear bud. Popularized by Apple, these stupid things don’t hold in sound the way regular headphones do. Instead, they enable everyone within five feet to listen in to the song–whether they want to or not. At that’s assuming the volume is at a normal level, if the person likes their music on the loud side, it’s time for people eight rows up to get ready to get down. Personally, I don’t need to listen to Miley Cyrus that badly.
In closing, if you are an inconsiderate jerk, who does not stop to consider the needs of others, you have no place being a passenger on a plane. You are clearly more qualified for a spot as a flight attendant.