Being one of the last groups to board a flight can be stressful. Flight attendants are pushing you along to get boarded as quickly as possible. You’re surrounded by people staring at you like you’re the in-flight entertainment as you struggle to find a place to store your bag. And then once you find a place…
I have had some interesting trips lately, with everything from insane weather delays to rude teenagers. But this next lady takes the cake for shockingly bad behavior. I was flying from DFW to La Guardia, not a short flight, and wasn’t lucky enough to have a Main Cabin Extra seat. After the movie ended I…
At the start of my marathon flying adventure last week I thought the next flying etiquette post would be about the woman that sprayed perfume a few rows in front of me. But on my return I was distracted by something else… (But don’t worry. The perfume rant will come soon!) Remember a few weeks…
I have been on the road a lot already this year, traveling literally from coast to coast. Some places are having lovely weather right now, but it seems like most of the country is in the grips of record-cold temps. I saw that today in Nashville it is -2! Crazy. What does all this cold…
I was enjoying dinner on a recent trip when I had a little disruption. Two ladies across from the restaurant from me were eating when one of them received a phone call. She took the call, which is not a big surprise these days. But what was surprising is that she took the call on…
This past summer I was flying home from Boston, sitting on the aisle and working intently when I noticed something that smelled….off. I glanced at the seats around me and found the culprit a few rows back across the aisle: someone’s lunch. To this day I have no idea what that person was eating that…
I’ve seen two recent stories about things falling out of the overhead bin and injuring people. In the first instance an older lady was knocked unconscious by a shoe falling out of a bin during a flight. In the second story a man says he suffered a compressed disc when luggage fell on him from…
One of my favorite subjects to write about is travel etiquette. When you travel week after week you notice a lot of questionable behaviors. In my goal to make the skies a little friendlier I share my observations about etiquette at an airport to etiquette at a hotel, and everything in-between. After the seat reclining…
On a recent trip a delay meant I was one of the last few to board a Southwest flight. When I got on the plane it was as I expected….only middle seats left. There were probably about ten, all in the back. There were a few other people from my previous flight boarding at the same…
USA Today wrote a story this week on the controversial subject of seat reclining. As the story points out, many airlines are pushing the limits of passengers by literally squeezing seats into every last available inch in order to generate more revenue. It seems these days that you don’t even have to be that tall…
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