When Privilege Takes Flight: Shocking Moments Entitled Passengers Faced at 30,000 Feet

Last Christmas I was flying from Amsterdam to Seattle, and you know how you have to “have your window shades open, have your tray tables locked, your seat in an upright position and the arm rests down for take off and landing” ya, well this 50ish year old grumpy face of an old man literally did the opposite of all those things. (Was being a complete jerk the whole 9 hour flight)

So when the attendant came by to tell him to get his stuff together, he pretended to be asleep and ignored her, so she shoved his seat forward and slammed his try table up. This guy starts screaming at her, flailing his arms, and STARTS CRYING, yes, crying because she was “rude.”

I’m literally just staring at this dude in pure disbelief.

Then when we finally land, they were like “please stay seated until the seatbelt sigh turns off.” This jerk stands up while we’re taxiing and starts to get in the overhead bin. So the same flight attendant comes by and in the sternest and most pissed off voice, says “sit. Down. Right. Now.” She slams the overhead bin closed and just returns to her seat.

That woman needs a raise.

skdubbs , Artem Korolev Report

I was flying an Airline (named after a Greek letter in the alphabet) I am a Management Consultant for a large global firm and I achieve medallion status pretty effortlessly. Anywho, I was waiting in the Premium Line for my flight to board and a middle aged woman came up to me and said that I was in the “Premium Line” as if I couldn’t read. I told her I was in the right line and that I was flying first class. She demanded to see my boarding pass. I hadn’t smelled any alcohol on her breath but I am assuming she was under the influence of something or just being a complete jerk. We start boarding the flight and after I get settled, here she comes demanding to know why I am in first class and asking the flight attendants to check my ticket. I do also recall her saying something like “this is unfair, I fly with y’all all the time.”

anonymous , HONG SON Report

There was an elderly couple on board and the flight was completely full. They were sitting next to each other and the wife demanded another seat because when her husband falls asleep he will put his head against her shoulder. Since this was an intercontinental flight this was unacceptable. Nobody was willing to change seats and eventually the couple got so verbally agressive they had to be taken of the aircraft by the Dutch military police.

scaevola79 , Nong Report

There was one guy who kept insistently pressing the help button before we even took off. “Just making sure it works”, he said. Then, during the presentation, he kept insisting I repeat myself. At once point, he shushed the women behind him that were talking to each other, supposedly because he couldn’t hear. Then, he asked “how do we know that the best people possible are in the emergency rows?”. Yeah. Yeah, he did.

anonymous , cottonbro studio Report

On a recent west coast of the US to east coast of the US trip, I had one entire row to myself on one side of the plane, and this older gentleman had the the entire row on the other side of the aisle from me. Sitting in the plane, as you do, while waiting to push back & taxi & take off, he asked the flight attendant if he could use the restroom. Fasten seatbelts sign was already lit, but she said she’d go and check if he could use the bathroom before we started moving – guess she wanted to see how long until we’d push back. Apparently he couldn’t wait those couple minutes, and proceeded to grab his air sickness bag, unzip, and pee into it… in full view of me. Then closed the bag up and smooshed in down into the seatback pocket. I cringed when, at the end of the flight, he finally handed it to a flight attendant to throw away. Definitely something I never wish to see again on a flight.

PacificKestrel , Иван Васючков Report

When United Airlines can’t/won’t tell a customer where their missing luggage is.

MeccIt Report

I’m 5’9. This was a 5 hour international flight on a full fare airline.

epic1107 Report

This was how a 4 hour flight went today. I am a 5’8” Female.

anonymous Report

Yes. I have the middle seat and I have legs.

I was eye rolled when I politely asked if the window seat passenger could move her backpack. I guess I should have left my legs at home.

scoutdashrebaling Report