Real Life Stories of Embarrassingly Entitled Airline Passengers

Air travel is an amazing thing: we can cover vast distances in mere hours by soaring high above the clouds.

In spite of this technological marvel, there's always someone on every flight who makes life difficult for everyone by demanding more of their magical gravity-defying experience.

Here are some true stories of entitled airline passengers who just made everyone cringe.

Email War

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I was on a flight where a middle-aged gentlemen wound up sitting next to me. Obviously on a business trip from his attire.

He's late getting to the Southwest flight, and he's got a roller carry on (in addition to his laptop bag).

He starts trying to shove it, forcefully, in to an overhead bin.

He does it in a way that shows a complete disregard for the other items already in the bin. Just trying to smash it against everything to get it in.

The flight attendant comes up, and politely says, sir, I don't think it's going to fit, and the flight is rather full, I think I will need to check your bag.

The business man gives him a snooty response, the flight attendant repeats. This goes on for about 5 minutes, with the business man insisting that his bag goes in to the overhead bin.

The business guy is getting more agitated.

The FA finally appears to relent, and says 'Okay, how about you let me try?'. The guy hands him the bag, and as soon as he has it in hand, immediately begins walking away saying 'I'm sorry sir, we're going to have to check this'. The business man has a hissy fit, but takes his seat next to me.

I noticed him immediately take out his laptop and get in to his email, and start typing an email to SW customer service, complaining about the rude and abusive behavior of the flight attendant, by name (he'd read his name tape) and about how he had been 'publicly embarrassed'.

Seeing this happen, and already having my laptop out, I also immediately drafted an email to SW Customer Service.

The guy put his full name in his email, so I had his name. So I sent an email to customer service, saying that I'm watching my seatmate, >insert name< currently sending a very nasty email about >flight attendant<.

I made sure to comment on how polite and professional the flight attendant was, and that >insert name< was far too old to be throwing a hissy fit when we're trying to get people in the seats to pull back from the gate.

I still feel good about it.

Kinmuan

Bag Bother

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Im a flight attendant. It really bothers me when I tell someone something simple, for example, "I need you to stow your purse underneath the seat in front of you,"

and they argue, as if it's my personal preference.

I always very sweetly explain that it's a federal aviation regulation, and sometimes even then, people argue. Why? They want to know. And that's fair.

So I tell them, "If we need to evacuate the aircraft, your purse could get caught on an armrest and slow not only you down, but all of the people behind you."

Usually, at this point people comply. But I had one lady continue past that point, telling me how expensive, and handmade, and Italian her purse was.

Which is neat, good for her, but all I could think was, "Wow. You are seriously implying that a bag you carry crap in is more valuable than the lives of those around you… The balls you must have, ma'am."

But I can't say that. I can only think it. I had to put it to her in selfish terms and in a mental space that she appeared to be in. "Is your purse more important than you being on this flight?" I asked her. She asked me if I was serious.

I started walking towards the open cockpit (we were still parked at the gate getting ready for taxi) to tell my captains we had someone unwilling to comply, and she yelled.

"I did it. Are you happy now." I wasn't, but we were able to taxi at that point.

PickleB

Harmonica Soundtrack

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As a young kid (starting at age 6) I flew as an unaccompanied minor every other weekend to go see my mom.

I don't remember this, but my mom told me one time she asked how my flight was; "Great! I sat next to this nice man in a fancy suit… I sang him some of my songs, told him some of my jokes…"

I also remember one time I got a harmonica for Christmas one year… you best believe I whipped that bad boy out while we were taxiing the runway… I got an ovation when I stopped lol

Im_Captain_Jack

A Gripping Read

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Had a very large woman sit next to me once. She was very well dressed, as was I. I tried to strike up a casual conversation with her, and she just looked at me like I was a pile of dog poop on the sidewalk.

Soooo....I pulled out a book to read...of course it was an airline disaster book. On the cover was a picture of a 747 with a cruise missile going through the side of it.

She was not amused.

Griffie