What is it about Flying that Pisses you off?
 

Every single time I fly, I swear there is a sign over my head....to search the middle aged redhead...hold her in Customs...seat her next to an obnoxious snoring smelly person....

It doesn't matter if I'm in first class or coach....

They've taken away my ability to be calm and relaxed...and everyone knows how much psychic energy it takes to assist the pilot during take offs and landings.

The movies are lame. The flight attendants are not very nice, depending on the airline..and the food is not fit for human consumption.

What pisses you off?

when I can't get a vodka red bull

the part i hate the most is taking a 45 min flight from LA to Vegas and waiting at the airport for an hour and a half for a cab or a limo.

delays and taking off your shoes

the fact that i can't smoke a damn cigarette or bring any pot with me.

also all the obnoxious people that tend to frequent planes and airports.

hate the fact that security measures are in place that would really not prevent anyone bent on doing harm, but they just annoy those of us trying to get somewhere.

Even worse are the asshats that hold the line up because they don't realize that their head needs to be out of their ass, like their laptop from their bag, or etc....

Sitting next to middle aged redheads... ;)



I guess i just hate travel days in general, cramped planes, loud kids, reclined seats, they seem like a wasted day after getting to the airport an hour and a half early and waiting for your luggage...ugh.

morning wood if you fall asleep on the plane

not allowed to smoke in some places and waking up early..

my arms get tired on the long flights

Airports with security people who throw my laptop around like it's a box of broken glass. Or who tell me to take my shoes off. They should bloody well have good enough sensors to find explosives in running shoes, m'kay? And proof of a laptop not being a bomb is NOT the ability of that laptop to turn on! When they do stuff like that, it is SUCH a WASTE OF TIME. Do the swab like they do at YVR. Then at least it looks like you're actually testing for explosives. Don't just peer at it and declare it safe.

And for goodness' sake, don't grunt at me. Smile and say please and thank you, and try to make it a better day for everyone. Just because you're working for minimum wage doesn't mean you have to take it out on everyone.

Says who?

Getting my bag emptied and searched for 20 minutes until they find the golden prize - some leftover lighter from 3 trips ago. Then leaving everything out for you to repack while you scramble to catch your flight.

Can't forget the lost luggage every time you have a connecting flight!

The queue at Customs at LAX.

Hopeless.

2c

I rarely fly, yet even I know it is SOP. As far as throwing laptops around, I have never had anyone even touch mine. Don't you just place it on the belt yourself, or is this a Canadian thing?

absolutely nothing, I always get a window seat and if the person next to me is annoying I let them know

I have a laptop for movies and an ipod for music

I am usually pretty content on flights

The only thing that bugs me is that I'm not flying the plane! I'm jealous of the pilots...

I never get extra searched, I always get rides a head of time, I get the seat I want, frequent flyer miles... bring my laptop and ipod and usually have a great experience, but I love flying.

ppl who change their kids daipers in their seats

After much thought the thing that pisses me off the most is sitting on the tarmac for hours in the Phoenix sun, with no airconditioning and the knowledge that my laptop's battery isn't going to allow me to watch DVD's for the entire wait.

Nope, only certain airports and airlines do the shoe removal thing.

And the Canadians never touch my laptop. I have to open it and show it to them and then put it away. The workers at FLL or LAX or Dallas, though, have been very rough with it, throwing around the grey box I've carefully placed it in to go down the belt. One time they shoved it extra hard to get it further down the belt after the machine, and I had to catch it before it fell off the end!

not being able to stand up (even for the bathroom) the 1st half hour leaving national airport in DC or the last half hour arriving at national airport in DC...i know it's because of terrorism, but it still pisses me off

Pretty much the only thing for me is coming back home through Canadian customs.

Airlines that can't keep a schedule for weather and say that it's not their fault and that they have no obligation to accomodate you except to get you on the next plane.

That's like skidding on an icy road and running into a bustop of people and then saying, "oh my bad, but it's cool cause it's not my fault just the weather. Gotta go. Crappy luck huh?"

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh :1orglaugh

damn the torpedoes, full steam ahead huh?

I'm pissed off that I'm paying good money to sit in first class seats that are smaller than what coach seats used to be and I'm eating food that's worse than what coach food used to be :( I make sure to get as many free drinks when I'm flying somewhere I don't need to drive away from though :)

There is an unwritten universal rule that all children / babies must sit behind me and kick my chair the entire flight an all international flights.

OK, funny true story about taking shoes off:

I was coming home from Orange County (which is my favorite airport after living in ATL - it's SO easy to get in and out of!!). I knew I was going to have to take my shoes off - if not at security, then during the 4.5 hour flight, and I didn't want stinky feet and only had foot power.

Apparently I overestimated how much foot powder I'd really need.....when I took off my shoes at security, there was about an inch at the bottom of each shoe. "It's foot powder, I promise!". Thankfully I don't look like the average cocaine dealer......

I hate sitting there in the throngs putting my shoes back on, so I walked a bit away towards the gate. Then a fellow passenger pointed out the lovely "footprints" I had following me from security to where I, the obvious culprit, was sitting :( Damn OC airport and their dark colored carpet! I hope someone vacuumed it up quickly.......

What? When you're on the plane? I've been able to wander right up to when they start the descent.

Not on DC flights - at least that's the way it was when I flew there and back a couple of months ago.

i know that flights in and out of national fly almost OVER the pentagon, so i see their point about risk and all that...but when nature calls, nature calls...

i'm not sure about flights at dulles airport though...

maybe elli got special privileges because she's ...well...cuter than i am :)

The fact that I have to come about 2 hours prior to departure (or 3 hours for the USA) and just sit there and wait. Half the time the flight is just as long as the wait for the flight.
WG

That's easy...

When the headrest comes off in first class and our Technical Director has to go to extreme measures to put it back on.:1orglaugh

Hmm...what just happened here? Oh the headrest came off...thought we were in first class...
http://aoexpo2005.awempire.com/coppe...l_DSCF2770.jpg

Let's take a look at what can be done here...
http://aoexpo2005.awempire.com/coppe...l_DSCF2768.jpg

Pushing it back on might work...
http://aoexpo2005.awempire.com/coppe...l_DSCF2767.jpg

Let's see what's inside...
http://aoexpo2005.awempire.com/coppe...l_DSCF2772.jpg

OK, this is hopeless...
http://aoexpo2005.awempire.com/coppe...l_DSCF2769.jpg

Let's just leave. On second thought, that might be a bad idea at 11,241 feet...
http://aoexpo2005.awempire.com/coppe...3/DSCF2766.jpg

sidenote: When Air India says 'first class'....they dont really mean it. :error
(believe me air india wasn't our first choice, this was after missing our connection on our way back from Vegas and ALL other airlines were booked. There were 2 more people on first class...coincidence? i think not...)

The flight attendants made up for it, though... (Prepare for tilting of head to the left)
http://aoexpo2005.awempire.com/coppe...3/DSCF2740.jpg

http://aoexpo2005.awempire.com/coppe...l_DSCF2729.jpg

I just did that flight this morning. Now LV to LA not so bad but I always get stuck in the Vegas airport delays etc especially when I need a connecting flight. It never fails I am there for hours.

wow that chick is hot....any in flight romance?

*I always happen to sit behind the fucker who decides to lean back (in coach)
*the person next to me needs to use the bathroom every 15 fucking minutes making me stand up (twice)
*stupid acting kids (it's their parents fault ...)
*fuckers with a portable DVD player but no headphones !!!!
*sitting next to a fat person who brought a whole bag from burger king to get through a 1 hour flight


Rarely i sit next (or even in the proximity) to somebody normal

Crashing :(

Nothing really :)

If I'm flying, it usually means I'm going away on another adventure and that makes me happy :)

looks like a good flight hehe i would have just switched to the other side though :)

yuup, vegas airport sucks. When me and Just_Dave were comin back from internext, we were in line to go thru the metal detectors or whatever and the whole airport had a big fuckin blackout!!! ALL the lights went out. We had to wait another 30 mins for them to reboot the xray machines. :error

Continuing. I conclude that the weather is their problem and they don't need to make it my problem.

Frankly I don't care if the chance of a plane crashing increases by a factor of 100, you're not going to crash it. Get it off the ground, get me to where I need to be. Either that or make my flight completely free.

Take responsiblity airlines.