Cheeky Passengers

[CCMNo1]

Hi everyone, would love to hear about how rude or cheeky a passenger has been to you on a flight! How much rudeness can you take from passengers before you snap back at them?

[ozskipper]

I remember a few years back travelling as a pax in cattle class we were seated next to this lovely older lady and the guy in front of us put his seat right back while she was eating.

She very politely asked if he would sit forward until she finished, which to no surprise said no.

One of the flight attendants stopped and asked if he'd put the seat up - to which he replied "No, but you can do what your job description says and bring me a few beers." :mad:

Needless to say, he then promptly took a couple of sleeping pills and mostly snored and farted all the way to London. How delightful.

What a tool.

[WEBLUEIT]

I'm afraid that lately i am not so patient with such matters. All it takes for me is for the pax to be ignorant. I especially like it when for instance you ask them what would they like to drink and they wave their hand at you whilst not looking at you. I have to say that infuriates me, manners cost nothing. I do make a point in my own special way of letting them know that too. As for cheeky passengers if they are being cheeky to you then it means you can be cheeky back to them. The other week i was offering newspapers, this one bloke said 'what kind of a paper is that' it was a daily express, so i said 'Its one that made of paper and has got print on it' He did crack his face into a smile, and i pissed myself....

[Flying_Sarah747]

Something I find quite funny with the pax is how so many of them REALLY object to showing you their boarding pass!!! They just mummble their seat number to you and try to walk off, then you stop them, and it's like you've asked them to do the biggest chore the world could possibly know, just by getting their boarding pass out!!!!

I also find a lot of pax who tease me about how young I look. One guy was like, so how old are you anyway? About 10? I felt like saying young enough for you to be my father sir! Which would be true anyway! But I just said double that and you've got my age! ;)

[ozskipper]

Old enough to know better and young enough to do it again! (my old line when I used to get asked, but mind you it doesn't happen much anymore! :{ )

[smile]

I had an older lady travelling with us the other day. She was vison impaired. Whilst waiting for ground crew to come and assist her off the plane she asked me how old I was. When I told her my age she proceeded to inform me that I looked younger than that!!

[SkyFemme]

Hows this for rude and cheeky:

I was working a flight from JFK to LAX...I was the number 1 . ok we had just finished serving meals.
When this "gentleman" in business class calls me over...
heres the conversation:

Him: hey flight attendant, come here!
Me: yes sir how can i help you?
Him: (he's referring to the dinner roll)...do you have anything that doesnt double as a baseball around here?? this so called bread roll is not fit for human consumption. so why dont you put together your last 3 brain cells and go find me one that i can eat!
Me: Im sorry but there arent anymore left sir. if there were i would get one for you.
Him: (in a very loud voice).....im not ever flying AA again. i cant believe that you cant find one lousy bread roll around in that galley!
Me: im sorry sir.
and i walk away....
believe me if there was ever a time i wanted to cut off someones testicles this was that time...hahaaaa..

[ozskipper]

Gawd, if anything was going to give me that psychotic nervous eye tick thing that would have been it....

[wawkrk]

I once read somewhere about a unique way to deal with some of these ignorant people.The cabin crew put a couple of eye-drops in their drink.There is no taste but it quickly produces a bout of severe diarrhoea!!!

[TrafficBoy]

Before Pacific Blue launched, all of the new Cabin Crew worked for our sister airline Virgin Blue in Australia for 5 weeks, and as you may be aware, our uniforms are exactly the same except wherever it says Virgin on their uniforms, it says Pacific Blue on ours... ANYWAYS:

On my first or second day flying with Virgin, I was walking through the cabin just before top of decent, and this cute little older lady tugs at my hand and pulls me in closer as she whispers in my ear "Have you been a bad boy, arent you a virgin anymore" pointing at the little logo on my shirt collar.

The grin she beamed was absolutely priceless, and there was nothing more that I could say other than "yes, Ive been a VERY bad boy"

[SkyFemme]

hahahahaaaaaaaaaaa good one wawkrk!! love it....:D

[cwatters]

Something I find quite funny with the pax is how so many of them REALLY object to showing you their boarding pass!

That's because they've just put the fiddly thing away. I very rarely get asked for my BC so it tends gets "filed" in the hand luggage with my passport after the gate. If pax were always asked for the BC it wouldn't be a problem.

[christep]

cwatters: it's just another one of those examples where because the Australians and/or Brits do it they automatically assume that it's the only way and that everyone else does it. I'm like you - if I have my carry on in one hand and my laptop in the other it's a pain in the neck to have to fish out my boarding pass from my pocket or wallet.

[QF skywalker]

smile - she could probably just tell by your voice that you were young and gorgeous ;) ;)

I was on a flight one day with a quite rowdy bunch of country passengers who were all keen to chat with me as I walked through the aisle doing comfort checks. One lady asked me to turn around and face my bum towards her ! I said " excuse me ? " ..anyway she motioned me again to spin around and the next thing I felt was a prod on my butt, of course as quick as a flash I spun back around to find her holding a piece of fluff which she had picked off the back of my uniform pants !

Also had a bunch of cheeky pax laughing at me one day as I was walking through the aisle handing out morning newspapers - little did I know that I had newspaper ink all over my face which had rubbed off from my hand - how embarassing.

[Aileron Roll]

Had a friend of a friend of a friend tell me this one..... (with no offence intended to anyone)


The story goes of a Priest being very rude to cabin staff for hour after hour

A young hostess can take it no more and points to his bible stating " I don't mean to ruin your book, but he dies in the end" !

[qfmike737]

Waiting in the aerobridge on gate 25 at Brisbane domestic airport...the customers were all getting off...I am standing inside the bridge working as the "cockatoo" to inform the rest of the catering crew to come on once all the customers and crew are off. Anyway this guy comes up to me and grabs me by the arm like he is on his last breath of life and I'm like dont touch me!!!! He then says "excuse me is this Brisbane" I couldn't help but just burst out laughing I thought it was a joke!!!

Anyway it Wasn't!!!




I dont know who was more embarrassed the guy or myself?

[ukjetbloke]

Don't you just love it when the little darlings think the ONLY way they can get your attention is to tug at your shirt or to prod you in the back! HOW RUDE IS THAT! Would you go to a restaurant and tug at the waiters shirt??? NO? Well don't do it on a aeroplane! My usual response to that sort of rudeness is to turn round......look them in the eye....pause for a mo.....and then prod them back whilst muttering the phrase "excuse me works too"!!!!!!!!! Colleagues can't believe it when i do it but i can assure you it makes them realise real quick how rude they have been. I bet they don't do it again in a hurry! Try it on yer next flight!

Happy Flying

[no reds]

. . . once upon a time , a long long time ago before the Head Waiter was given his money to $*** up the airline systems in the known world , and pin scissored ties to the notice board in reception there was calm.
Or at least no waves, but that wasn`t good enough for our saviour of the right and the proper
He had to force the people who ran airplanes on a daily basis to desist from offering fares up front - and at 5quid a throw - ish - it was very attractive.
Lo and behold before too many blue moons had passed four people travelling on the same flight from LTN to EDI having booked three months in advance paid more for their tickets than they would to Florida
Alack, this is good , on the TV an orange captain explains that he is just a bus driver - busses stop and people get on and off - quoth he - and that is all he does
It`s a wonderful life
. . . . . do you really want your kids to fly with these ******s?

. . . . . . . tosspots then . . .

ps . . you didn`t have the dickheads regularly prior to that did you ?