After a nice week with some lovely people got onto a plane back from Tenerife Sunday night and yet again had to endure a 4.5 hr flight cacooned into a small metal tube with what can only be described as the worst of the UK population.
Gent behind actually threatened me when I asked his girlfriend politely to stop constantly kicking the back of my seat. Tracksuited man in the row in front practically eating his fake tanned girlfriends face off for the entire flight. Another man endlessly complained about being too hot and then proceeded to remove his top and walk around the flight to show us all his sunburnt beer belly. Old Scouser next to me seemed nice enough and tried to make conversation but he was so p***ed up that I could hardly understand a word he said. Clueless families with out of control kids drinking vodka and beer and then talking complete s**t so that all around could hear.
Honestly, no wonder the British have a bad reputation abroad.
Sod paying for extra legroom seats, I'd happily pay some extra money to sit in a guaranteed 'Chav Free' area of the plane so that I could actually get some peace, read a magazine and perhaps enjoy returning to the UK.
*Pulls up a seat*
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Settles down to enjoy the ensuing arguments.
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got onto a plane back from Tenerife
got onto a plane back from Tenerife
Yep, that's where it started to go wrong, isn't it? 🙂
You could fly business class with a schedule airline. Also populated with mostly ****ers, but quieter ones.
tracknicko +1
Only yourself to blame.
Buy a more expensive ticket. Also flying to Chav tastic destinations wont help you much.
pay some extra money to sit in a guaranteed 'Chav Free' area of the plane
Google "private jet hire", probably the only way to get chav free anything on such a flight
Happens to us all at some point. You've just had a short trip to Jeremy Kyle World. Think of it as a theme park. Just laugh at them and enjoy the fact that it was only for a few hours. That's what some peoples daily lives consist of. Just imagine that!!! 😯
You could fly business class with a schedule airline. Also populated with mostly ****, but quieter ones.
This is often true. 🙂
no-one was forcing you to stay on the plane, you could have just left.
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You could fly business class with a schedule airline. Also populated with mostly ****, but quieter ones.[s]This is often true. [/s] I didn't get where I am today...
ftfy 😉
If you can't beat them joined, neck a bottle of 20/20 and treat it as role play, you might like it.
Well ,if only you had stuck in at school ,then you could afford to avoid the riff raff 🙂 😉
Flying to any popular holiday destination in Europe from the UK you are going to have to put up with it.
You can live it up in a five star villa with your own butler for a week but at the end of the holiday you will most likely be stuck on the same charter flight with the rest of the hoi polloi.
Unless you are prepared to foot the bill for business class then air travel is a great leveller!
Either join in the fun or get some noise cancelling headphones and a sedative!
You could fly business class with a schedule airline
It's not that I would want to fly business class or expect better service - perhaps just to travel in an area of an aircraft where people have enough politeness to behave themselves and to consider the other people around them. Is that too much to ask?
got onto a plane back from Tenerife
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Most planes already have a chav free zone, it's called the cockpit 🙂
I fly back and forth to Lanzarote and Tenerife quite a lot [every couple of months] and rarely see the sort of behaviour you had.
It's not that I would want to fly business class - just travel in an area of an aircraft where people have enough politeness to behave themselves and consider the other people around them.
Pay to fly on a proper airline, fly on a route that isn't a cheap holiday destination. Job done.
I often fly LHR-BCN and have never had any problems on board (apart from the one day when they'd run out of Tabasco for my Bloody Mary. There was nearly a hijack situation then, I can tell you)
Keep the noise down!
What, what..
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I'm with the OP- one of the last times that I flew there was a heavily hungover guy sat next to me- stinking of booze- asking to get out every 5mins to run to the toilet.
WHY do it just before you leave?
Across from me was a potty-mouthed family with screaming kids.
I'd happily pay some extra money to sit in a guaranteed 'Chav Free' area of the plane
there's your ****ing answer then you sodding cheapskate..
jog on innit bruv 😉
I always thought the chav free zone was called 1st/Business Class.
Of course you could always holiday in the glorious UK and not have to fly at all.
yunki - MemberI'd happily pay some extra money to sit in a guaranteed 'Chav Free' area of the plane
there's your **** answer then you sodding cheapskate..
jog on innit bruv
Or how about people just learn to behave themselves?
Can we have chav-free zones more widely?
How about a 'braying middle-class free zone' ?
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Or how about people just learn to behave themselves?
or that yes 😀
but just maybe it was them what was in the right though and your behaviour what was wrong..?
Perhaps the age of wanting everyone to sit around quietly just because you do is a little bit selfish and last millenium..?
By your own admission you were in the minority..
Has one sacked one's pilot?
How about a 'braying middle-class free zone' ?
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Aeroflot.
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got onto a plane back from Tenerife Sunday night
A morning or early afternoon flight is preferable, whilst you'll still get the odd piss head, it ain't going to be anywhere near as bad as a night flight.
I came back a couple of weeks ago, 10 hour delay [9pm instead of 11am], I did think it could be 'interesting' given all the time we were waiting at the airport but it was OK.
Who flies to Europe on holiday?
Into this:
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it's public transport innit and the public in it.
yuk.
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stella at 6.30am because "I'm on holiday"
Who flies to Europe on holiday?
Tenerife is a bit tougher to drive to though and Lyon is not quite as warm in January
Although, I'm riding a motorbike down to Lanzarote soon 🙂
A significant proportion of arguments/annoyance could be solved in cattle class by disabling the seat recline feature - cannot be used without annoying the person behind you (unless the are pre-teen or a dwarf).
It also helps to travel in a group that matches the row size of the aircraft you are on.
Which UK destination were you travelling to OP?
The harder it is to spell, and or the colder it is when you get there, the less Chavs will be on the plane.
It's called 1st Class
The harder it is to spell, and or the colder it is when you get there, the less Chavs will be on the plane.
Funnily you never get these sort on the planes to Geneva do you
Funnily you never get these sort on the planes to Geneva do you
Yes, you do. Half term, ski season on the likes of Sleaze or Thomas Cook.
A significant proportion of arguments/annoyance could be solved in cattle class by disabling the seat recline feature
You recline, person behind you reclines, net amount of space is exactly the same. Never understood this argument (and they only recline about an inch anyway).
Noise cancelling headphones - done.
Have you seen the business class prices? I thought it would be nice to upgrade for my 30th trip to mexico - the price of upgrading 2 seats was more than the rest of the trip put together - and that was 2 weeks fully catered and guided round the majan sites of yucatan. How does any afford those sort of prices!
Just get absolutely leathered before you get on the plane. Get some tats that you display proudly by wearing a wife-beater and the spend the journey glaring at people, while loudly having a conversation with the voices in your head. Sorted! 😀
Noise cancelling headphones - done.
That won't stop someone kicking the back of you seat.
Being in business doesn't ensure you'll have a lovely, peaceful flight!
Regardless of where you are sitting, it's just a big tin filled with lots of people you spend your whole life trying to avoid, whether it's self important widget salesmen trying deperately to get that last cold call in before take off, or a 18 year old on the way to Magaluf.
One of the worst flights i've ever had was to San Diego in business, with a total muppet of a colleague who wanted to spend the entire flight doing work which needed my input. I'd rather have the drunken idiot on that flight 🙂
Solution:
Alcohol + headphones.
Or, if you're in business, Alcohol + headphones + laptop open at widget sales speadsheet 🙂
Or as OMITN points out, avoid public transport. A plane is just a flying bus.
