Air travel 101

Trying to not be a too much of a posh snob I have to admit that I just can’t take people who don’t know how to behave on an airplane. In the article Behavior 101 Barbara Correa writes about what everybody should know when being on airplane.

• Learn how to share armrest space
  
• Rearranging overhead space
  
• Go the bathroom before getting on the plane
  
• Intruding on airline seat space
  
• Loud cell phone conversations
  
• If you can't lift it into the overhead bins, check it
  
• Don't drink and fly
  
• Space underneath the seat
  
• Kids and flights

The last two points are really my peeves. Use the space underneath the seat is in front of you, not behind you. If you use both those spaces where am I supposed to put my handbag and last but not least legs?! I do not like to be cramped up with my legs just because you are bringing to much stuff onboard. That's what checking in are for.

Kids. So I don’t have any kids of my own, but that really doesn’t make me bad person. I do understand that it can be tiresome flying with kids, but as a parent it’s your responsibility to make their flight pleasant. I remember short flight down to Copenhagen a couple of years ago. Three kids, siblings, were sitting in the seat in front of me with their parents on the other side of the aisle. Just in this very short flight they managed to jump up and down in the seat, hit each other, hit other passenger in front of them, scream and shout. A plain and proper nuisance. And the parents were just sitting there doing nothing. We learned very quickly that the family where going somewhere in the US, and when we were leaving the plane the man next to me said: "I feel sorry for those people who are going to have sit next to them for 8 hours crossing the Atlantic. They either have to get drunk and pass out or have nerves of steal." And that was just 40-minute flight… I wonder how that transatlantic flight went… It’s not like you can throw people off in mid-air…