Flight attendants have shared the most shockingly entitled behaviour they've witnessed while at 30,000 feet.
When the air pressure is high, the seats cramped and the inflight films not particularly gripping, flying can be a less than stress-free experience.
Passengers sometime have the habit of raising the tension levels a little bit above this base level by acting as if the rules don't apply to them.
Whether it's people refusing to sit down during take-off, sockless passengers subjecting others to their poorly maintained feet, or a nervous husband to be who kept spilling his drinks, a badly behaved flyer can really ruin a flight.
Members of cabin crew recently took to Reddit to share their most entitled experiences with passengers.
The self-upgrader
"Every so often we get the odd straggler who boards last who finds a vacant seat in first or business thinking that we won't know that they are from coach," wrote zlinerlabs.
"'Excuse me sir, may I see your boarding pass.... sorry your seat is 58A not 1A.'
"'But I'm so tall, I need the leg room.' Awkward silence."
The white goods requester
"My girlfriend’s mom is a flight attendant," wrote YacYacYac.
"One time a woman got quite angry because her daughter spilled apple juice all over and there was not a clothes dryer on the plane for her daughter's sweater."
The wanderer
"I'm a flight attendant, had a lady dramatically insist that she be allowed to freely roam the aisles, even during takeoff/landing, because she’s claustrophobic," wrote amandac64.
"She also demanded free drinks and was absolutely appalled when I had to cut her off after her sixth."
"This was on a four-hour flight that she claimed she took regularly."
The seat stealers
"Not one specific passenger but a type of behaviour I've unfortunately seen too much of," wrote ConstableBlimeyChips.
"Couple will book separate seats, the man in a premium economy seat with extra leg room, the woman in a normal economy seat.
"The woman will then play the sad sack and ask another passenger to give up their comfy seat so they can sit together.
"If the other passenger refuses (usually because they paid extra and literally don't fit in a regular seat), some will even complain to the crew to make them move the other passenger."
The shoes off menace
"One time, I was on a flight back from Europe," wrote emmcee47.
"A man who probably hadn’t showered in a week got on, and the plane smelled rancid until they turned on the AC. Once we took off, the man — who was wearing sandals — put his bare feet on the armrests in between the seats in front of him. Long, disgusting toenails included.
"A flight attendant saw him and told him he couldn’t do that."
"When the passenger in front of him put her seat back to sleep (it was a nine-hour flight where everyone was doing the same), he started pushing repeatedly on the back of her seat.
"Luckily, the girl stood her ground and didn’t put her seat back up. I don’t know what is wrong with some people."
The button pusher
"While the plane was declining to land, I had a guy continuously push his call button and give me annoyed hand gestures/facial expressions for, like, five straight minutes because he wanted another drink," wrote amandac64.
"I would’ve had to unlatch a cart and use all of my body weight to prevent it (and me) from hurtling down the aisle toward the cockpit in order to get this dodo a d**n sip of Diet Coke."
The nervous husband
"I was on a flight from O'Hare to Orlando sitting in the window seat," wrote —anne_of_the_gables.
"A couple sat beside me with the guy in the middle seat. Her mother sat in the aisle seat behind her. The couple was going to Disney World for their wedding.
"She was the stereotypical bridezilla, and he was so nervous, he was actually shaking. He spilled three drinks in a row on me!!!
"Then, his fiancée started screaming at him because he was talking to me too much because he was apologizing to me."
"Somehow, I doubt they're still married."
