Impatient passengers on a flight
12-May-2008
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What is it with air travel and why are people so impatient when it is time to get of the plane?  It’s almost as if their life depends on how quickly they can get into the terminal building at the airport.

A BMI Airbus 320 at Schipol airport

I’ve seen this on practically every single flight I have ever been on and it doesn’t matter where you are flying to, whether you’re going on holiday to Spain or just flying to somewhere in the UK visiting family.  The overhead lockers are opened as soon as the seat belt sign is switched off and they all begin shoving their way into the isle so they can stand there craning their neck to see if the door has been opened yet.  What is the reason for this absolute madness?

I can almost this kind of behaviour from the smokers who have endured an eight hour flight and are gasping for a cigarette.  Their impatience is fuelled by a physical addiction and their need for a regular fix to be part of the human race.  But what about the rest of you, surely you aren’t all smokers?

Another thing that bugs me are those individuals who just can’t wait to get into the terminal before they get their mobile telephones out and start making calls.  You are quite clearly advised not to use your mobile phone on the aircraft and to wait until you get into the terminal.  These people seem to think that the rules don’t apply to them though.

Air travel is a relative luxury, most of us don't do it very frequently and unless you bought a cheap flight form a budget airline you might as well get your money’s worth.  So why not chill out and enjoy sitting on the plane just a few minutes longer?

I sometimes wonder what the flight crew would do if all the passengers stayed in their seats and didn’t make a rush for the door after the aircraft had landed and taxied to the terminal.  They would probably be very shocked I would imagine.


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Eddie - you really do have an extraordinarily large chip on your shoulder don't you!!

I am a Northerner and I can assure you that the whole 'Brit Abroad' culture embarrasses and annoys me too. However, I have seen drunken, obnoxious behaviour displayed abroad by those from the North AND the South. Being a total moron does not distinguish between counties!!

Your refusal to accept that brainless idiots can be bred ANYWHERE leads me to believe that you, in fact, are one yourself.

Prat.
*Green_Eyez  03-Jan-2008 16:06

 
Unfortunatley the problem lies with the CLAMOURING SOUTHERN MORONS with their ME ME ME attitude. Beaky-nosed barge a*ses!
*Northern Monkey  25-Oct-2007 14:53

 
If you had to endure hanging around at the railway station for another hour because you'd missed the previous train, you'd want to get off in a hurry too.

And what the hell is so great about sitting on a plane, anyway? There is no glamour in it.

It's unhealthy because they recycle stale air so it takes only one individual with a disease to distribute it to everyone else, the food is terrible, the seats are too tightly packed for a normal person to sit in for longer than about half an hour, and the sheer waste of time the whole palaver involves -- from arriving ten hours before the flight time so some droid can frisk you naked both before you fly and after you arrive -- makes the whole experience one to dispense with as quickly as possible.

I'm amazed everyone else doesn't hate it I believe some even enjoy it....
*liteswap  27-Feb-2007 17:34

 
I HATE people that switch their phones on before leaving the plane. What do they think has happened while they have been in the air? Are they so important that they can't wait 5 minutes until they leave the plane?
*kilfinan  18-Nov-2006 19:52

 
Just accept that Northeners are skanks.

All the Brits we cringe about on holiday are fat northern pie eating apes that sit in "English" pubs commenting on how the pie and chips "aint as good as back ome".

This breed of human sub species thinks that by talking louder and slower the locals will understand better.
*Eddie  17-Oct-2006 12:06

 
By the way, have you never heard that:
England starts south of the Watford gap;
CIVILISATION starts north of it!
*pat  07-Oct-2006 14:19

 
I see that flying is bringing out the best in humanity again, North versus South, Good versus Evil etc.
I have flown more miles than I care to think about, near East, Far East, Northern hemesphere, Southern hemesphere you name it and I've probably been there over the last fifty years or so, and, nothing changes. I have yet to meet an airoplane that has left without all those sitting in the departure lounge and I've never met anyone who'se got off before the doors are opened.
But we live in hope, maybe one day.............?
*pat  07-Oct-2006 13:54

 
Us southerners are normally in a hurry to get off the plane to escape the fat nothern chavs who think a plane is similar to a zoo and proceed to let their kids act like monkeys whilst they tuck into the coke and peanuts.

I will never fly from a city airport again to escape these sub human species.
*Woo  27-Sep-2006 12:33

 
I find the toffee nosed SOUTHERNERS are the worsed offenders.

Talk about being arrogant,, even the air crew had to tell them MORE THAN ONCE to wait their turn, and sit down, and that's BEFORE they had called boarding.
*Joe  15-Sep-2006 16:50

 
I couldn't agree more, it's as if they think the lugguage is put on the carousel in the same order as people get off the plane...that's another thing, people blocking the carousels, so you can't get near them when your lugguage appears. I recently landed at an airport coming back from hols, and there was the usual race to passport control, so rather than stand in a queue me and the kids stood back and watched the planes...guess what we were told we had to join the queue because otherwise we were a security risk!
*Chris  15-Sep-2006 12:14

 
Yeah Woo...I was thinking of the popular 60's/70's cartoon series 'Catch the Pidgeon' In this programme there were lots of ideas which would do nicely for these vermin...I would love to see people who jump up on planes at touchdown be instantly ejected out the top of the plane....or dropped out of the bottom of the plane at 30'000 feet! By the way..they never did catch that bloody bird, they should of got mayor Ken on the team he would of sorted out the rat with wings!
*Mark  14-Sep-2006 22:24

 
I find it's normally fat notherners or Chavs that have the whole rush to the plane syndrome.

I flew out of Manchester once and I swear it was like a third world country. Most people acted like they hadn't even seen a plane before.
*woo  14-Sep-2006 15:54


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