Are You An Annoying Airline Passenger?

Expedia, everyone’s favorite booking hospice for the travel disabled, has decided that you people are annoying travelers. Well, not all of you people, just some of you who were obviously raised in a barn, or were treated like super special cronuts of light and joy. Yes, you led Expedia to commission research to find out which of you is the worst kind of flier out there. Find out if you’re on the list.

It shouldn’t be shocking to most to know that there is indeed etiquette even on an airplane. Actually, it makes us wonder who those folks are that believe that airplanes or other public places should be free from etiquette. Mostly you’d think there is a pretty easy set of rules to follow, right? 1) Keep all of your body parts and limbs from touching or causing disruption to others 2) No screaming, yelling, or talking loudly — yep, all of these and any others that have to do with not being a huge, doucheface out in public, especially in a tight space, or on a mechanism that houses Air Marshals, or on a thing that requires a parachute if you need to show yourself out.

Apparently, these folks didn’t get that particular memo. As listed by USA Today, here’s the entire list of the most annoying types of fliers.

1. Rear Seat Kicker (cited by 67% of study respondents)
2. Inattentive Parents (64%)
3. The Aromatic Passenger (56%)
4. The Audio Insensitive (talking or music; 51%)
5. The Boozer (50%)
6. Chatty Cathy (43%)
7. Carry-On Baggage Offenders (39%)
8. The Armrest Hog (38%)
9. Seat-Back Guy (the seat recliner) (37%)
10. The Queue Jumper (rushes to deplane) (35%)
11. Overhead Bin Inconsiderate (stows bag in first available spot, rather than nearest to his/her seat; 32%)
12. Pungent Foodies (32%)
13. Back Seat Grabber (31%)
14. Playboy (reads or watches adult content; 30%)
15. The Amorous (inappropriate affection levels; 29%)
16. Mad Bladder (window seat passenger who makes repeat bathroom visits; 28%)
17. Undresser (removes shoes, socks or more; 26%)
18. The Seat Switcher (13%)

Some of these conjure a litany of questions. For instance, “Rear Seat Kicker.” If this isn’t a child, how do you explain this? Are adults on planes just randomly kicking the hell out of the seat in front of them for enjoyment? How do you not kill this person? The same with the “Pungent Foodie.” Um, yeah, it’s really great and all that you had an excellent time on your trip, but if you can’t wait to get home to unwrap your pickled squirrel anuses or whatever, then well, you should have driven back from the mountains of Deliverance. The same goes for you, “Undresser,” put your shoes back on, Josh.

The best thing about the study is that “48% of those queried said they would remain quiet and attempt to ignore the violation.”

22% – said they’d confront a misbehaving passenger directly

12% said they’d record the incident using a mobile phone or a camera

*The remaining %18 will loudly grunt and passive aggressively retaliate by doing one of the things mentioned above. Meaning, the “foot kicker” will get a reclined seat in the lap.

Tell us some of your travel stories in the comments, and what you did to rid yourself of an offender?

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