Jet2, Ryanair, Easyjet, TUI passengers are being told not to be ‘that person’ on a flight as a flight attendant has shared the habit sure to annoy cabin crew when you board
Jet2, Ryanair, easyJet and TUI passengers have been warned to avoid an annoying habit that’s sure to get you in the cabin crew’s bad books.
Travel pro Megan, who runs the YouTube channel PortableProfessional, has urged holidaymakers not to be ‘that person’ in a recent viral clip, reports Birmingham Live.
According to Megan, one of the most annoying passenger habits takes place before the plane has even taken off. She explained: “Flight attendants need to check where everyone is sitting for safety reasons and, if you sit somewhere other than your assigned seat, you might be in a seat reserved for someone else who is still getting on the plane.”
She added: “If you are desperate for a new seat, it is best to wait until after takeoff, when the seatbelt sign has been turned off and you are certain that everyone else is on board, but even then the flight crew is not going to be too impressed.”
Other advice included also putting small bags and other items under the seat in front of you, rather than using up overhead bin space you may not need.
It’s not the first time that a flight attendant has opened up about how you could end up in the crew’s bad books. One aviation worker has begged people to stop blowing their noses on flights, while flight attendant Cierra Mist previously revealed the irritating passenger habits she’s dealt with, including attempts to bag a free upgrade.
In fact, she urged people to “stop bringing us gifts and gift cards” in the hopes that they will get an upgrade or better treatment than fellow passengers. She explained: “It used to be a nice sweet gesture, but lately, people have been so entitled that they think that that guarantees them a free upgrade or us being nicer.
“If you do want that type of upgrade, I suggest giving those gifts and gift cards to the gate agent because they’re the ones in charge of the upgrades, not the flight attendants.”
Of course crew will talk about passengers who get on their nerves, and often have code words so that people don’t realise they’re being discussed. However, there’s one codeword that could end up being quite flattering – getting called Bob.
Cabin crew member Owen Beddall, who passed away in 2016, exposed many secrets of the sky in his hugely popular book Confessions of a Qantas Flight Attendant. One of the pieces of inside information he spilled was that the cabin crews he worked with would often use the term “Bob” to refer to certain passenger on board.
The term is used by staff to identify passengers they fancy and alerts others to have a look for themselves, with Bob standing for ‘best on board’.
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