Airport Brain?

Question

Why is it that the majority of people behave like imbeciles in airports even before they get there? Insisting on being there hours before the flight, then panicky and almost rude while checking in, lunging forward when their flight is called as if the plane is going to take off without them and then once you land jumping out of their seat as soon as the captain turns off the seatbelt signs! Then to cap all off they put their trolleys right up against the luggage belt with invariably 2 or 3 kids either side taking up huge amouts of space when it is only ever going to be Father who lifts the suitcase off anyway.
Do you think people are nervous about the whole experience of flying and simply over compensate? Is there an actual condition probably called airport brain?

Answer 1

You must be airport staff then. My sister crews at Gatwick & she often talks about Airport Brain.
I think people do get nervous & it doesn't help that a majority of the ground & air crew are arrogant & up their own bums. What is an every day occurance for you is a major event in some peoples lives. Haven't you ever got nervous in a situation you're not familiar with?

Answer 2

So I am not the only one who feels that we all leave our brains at home when we go to the airport. You are spot on.

Try taking an Easyjet flight and then the fun really starts. They don't allocate seats so you see people behaving like animals barging past each other as they walk (or run) on to the plane so that they can get "the best seats."

People need to relax a little and enjoy the experience but I suppose the way you are herded around by the airport staff and airlines encourages people to behave like animals.

Answer 3

Speaking about airport (or airplane) brain, there are typically dozens of firearms confiscated by airport security each week, from morons who still DONT KNOW you cant carry a gun onto an airplane.

There should be a mandatory high school or college course called "Air Travel 101", and peope who flunk out have to do 30 days community service pushing wheelchairs at the Miami airport

Answer 4

Oh how I agree with you.

There is the point that the BAA [before it was sold off] were trying to push airports as 'a place to be for you and the kids,' like the American Mall, 'a place to spend a maybe half day!'
Anyway, a 'place to sp£nd.'

I first flew [anywhere] in '73, and it was very different from how it is now ...when the act of flying itself was a part of the holiday, where I was a traveller. Not anymore, now the passenger is just something to be 'processed' through the system.

My sense of it that there is just too much pressure, and from too many directions.

Sash.

Answer 5

LOL!!!!! Yes, I'd call it a condition. I used to work for Delta, and obviously flew alot. You can tell experienced travelers, because most of them do not act the way you describe. Its mainly caused by the stress of traveling and knowing that you are about to be or have just been freed from a tiny uncomfortable confined space with a bunch of other people who are acting as anxious and rude as you are. And these days you have to deal with the TSA and wondering if theyve enforced some new rule that is going to end up having you have to throw away some contents of your bags. Then you have people that are worried they will loose their bags or people who have just found out that their bag somehow ended up 2000 miles away from where it should have ended up. You have people rushing around all over trying to make sue they dont miss their flight. Then theres the horror stories that cause people to stress out...Ive got a few good ones myself. From sitting next to a lady who threw up in barf bags next to me from Cancun back to Atlanta so many times I lost count, to lost bags...including my sons carseat (luckily my friend had a spare when she picked us up), to hassles with airport security, to accidentally walking outside of security without knowing it and almost missing my flight having to do a 30 minute wait to get back in, to flight delays and cancels, to screaming kids, to seat kickers, to rude people sitting all around me, to knowing that someones sneeze from 20 feet away has blown onto me through the air vent above my head, to having the ground agent tell me to get on the wrong plane (luckily this was realized when the attendant said "Modesto" and not "San Luis Obispo" as I boarded). The list goes on and on. People who fly deserve a little airport brain.

Answer 6

....you should work in customer service dear.......you would know that this is pretty typical human behaviour.........sorry about that. Hilarious question......

Answer 7

Your bitterness supersedes you.