What's the most annoying experience you've had on an airplane?

Question

Loud coughers? Babies crying? Let's hear it!

Answer 1

Worst! Once when I was flying to Florida I needed the bathroom because i drinked a lot of water.... On the line of the bath, there was a couple before me, that charming couple had sex on the bathroom, and the last a really long time; the other bathroom smelled really awful, so, I had to wait until they finished...

Answer 2

I was flying for Kabul to Istambul on Air Aryana (The Afghan National Airline), which is always fun anyway. Me and a guy from working were sitting together. The flight was supposed to take 4.5 hours. After 4 hours the plan started to land and they said something over the intercom in Dari. We thought, oh good were early. As we started to desend I looked outside and thought it looked strange so I said to the guy, "It looks jsut like Kabul out there, and i can't see the ocean". So we sat (like we had a choice). When we hit the tarmac I saw a sign that said "Islamic Republic of _______. An airplane was in front of it that said Air Iran. We thought maybe they had stopped in Azerbaijan because they used to on that flight. Eventually I turned and asked someone and everyone started repeating "Tehran, Iran, Tehran, Iran." I told my friend and I thought he was goig to have a heart attack. This was over a year ago when they started having issues with the US. We are Canadian but I saw not with out my Daughter so I was a little worried. Thankfully they just had run out of gas and we were only there for about an hour. It was a little freaky though and we were 3 hours late getting to Istambul.

Oh and another time I was flying from Kabul to Dubai and I went to go to the toilet. The door was open and a women had her little boy crouched, standing on the seat. I waited and went back and the seat was covered in crap. It was so gross but I really had to go. I love Afghanistan.

Answer 3

I've got a ton of them but these are probably my two most amusing to share--- although they were not one bit amusing at the time!

-Going from DC to Orlando on a fairly empty flight. The lady seated "next" to me (empty seat in between) breast fed her baby the entire time. Oh, yuck, cover that UP!

-Going from DC to Seattle on a very full flight: after being pulled out of line for random security extra-screening, I was the last passenger to board. Of course the other passengers had rearranged themselves and my seat was occupied; after a lot of arguing (hey, I booked the window seat months ago because I like to curl up and go to sleep and if I'm on the aisle, I don't have anything to lean on) I got stuck next to a very large, very religious family. I mean, they had about 6 little kids with them. They sang bible songs the entire time, except when Dad was lecturing them about how sinners go to hell (and of course the drink cart was rolling by right about then--- I ordered 4 Jack Daniels!). It was a bouncy flight and the seatbelt sign hardly ever got turned off so Mom wouldn't get out of her seat to take the baby to the Lav, even though anyone within about 10 rows could tell that baby's diaper REALLY needed to be changed. The kids were throwing stuff at everyone and their parents wouldn't smack them because Jesus loves the little children... when I got to my hotel, I found Cheerios in my purse, from those little brats!

Answer 4

I had a non-stop flight, 4 hours flying time and I had the window seat. Occupying the two seats next to me were a husband and wife, not very friendly but that's OK. Over the course of the flight they both had bad gas, it was obvious that the husband who was seated on the isle seat was farting cause you could hear it but his wife was silent and deadly. It wasn't just me that noticed the smell a number of people seated around us got us and walked to the back of the plane to get away from the smell. I finally had to excuse myself and go to the head before I threw up. It was kind of funny because they really made it seem like it was a terrible inconvenience for them to get up and allow me to pass by them, they were somewhat large size challenged. Landing and deplaning couldn't come quick enough.

Answer 5

I was traveling with my husband on a 12 hour flight from the UK to Singapore, when a lady passed out in the center seat isle, the attendants, started to try to bring her round by slapping her on the face, when she didn't respond you could see they were almost panicking, I mean what do you do at 30,000 feet in the air?
They called for a doctor and eventually she came round and she threw up all over the seats and herself, you could smell the vomit, YUK! They laid her down across the seats, but we were scared that they were going to have to interrupt the flight and land at the nearest place, but fortunately that didn't happen.
It was a bit scary though.

Answer 6

My stories are probably typical but once I was flying 1st class to Nashville & this lil b@st@rd was kicking the HE\\ outta my seat! I mention the 1st class part because anyone whose flown 1st class knows that there is a tad more space in between the seats meaning this lil runt had to be LOOSE (not in a seatbelt). The funny part was when I turned around & gave him my best "cut that sh*t out or I'll kill you" look, his mom beat his a$$, LOL!

Another bad time was the fat person leaking into my seat syndrome. I was in a window seat so I was caught between a window & a big chic. (No offense to big people)

I once sat next to this guy who obviously hadnt gotten much sleep the night before because he kept falling asleep. Whats the problem with that? well everytime I looked over, his head was nodding towards ME! Im like, let your f'ing seat back fool!

OK last one! Once, I had the "privilege" of sitting in a section with someone who obviously had one too many bowls of BEANS! I was just hoping it didnt stick to my clothes!! :-&

(Is it obvious that I used to fly alot in college?? LOL)

Answer 7

Being stuck in the airplane for almost 2 hours at the gate in Ft. Lauderdale, FL, unable to take off because of a storm at the destination.

Answer 8

Flying from Boston to Orlando we had to make an emergency stop in DC for a medical problem (baby had hot scalding water dropped on it). Baby ended up being fine but after they refueled us, no one knew how much fuel they put on. We sat without AC for over an hour while they tried to figure out how much fuel we took on.

Answer 9

On board flight 761 to Frankfurt. The plane had to wait at the gate for three hours. And those pesky pursers kept waking me up every half hour.

Answer 10

I was sitting in the aisle seat. There was a woman in the eighth row that had an **** the size of Rhode Island. Instead of waiting for the front lavatory to become unoccupied she dediced to go to the back lavatory...smacking her **** into everyone on the way by...including myself.