Who are the most annoying kind of airline passengers?
A recent study conducted by Expedia on Airline Etiquette produces an interesting outcome: Different categories of annoying airline passengers were discovered. Whether one is flying to a business or touristic location, it is often desirable that one can have a hassle-free flight experience. However, such expectations may be cut short if one is flying with certain groups of inconsiderate passengers.
Trouble-making airline passengers
Despite 70–80 percent of airline passengers in America claiming that their fellow passengers were considerate and had acted appropriately, but here is the list of airline passengers that could turn your flight experience into a nightmare:
- The rear seat kicker (confirmed by 64% of respondents)
- Inattentive parents (59%)
- The aromatic (or smelly) passenger (55%)
- The audio insensitive (49%)
- The boozer (49%)
- Chatty Cathy (40%)
- The queue jumper (40%)
- Seat-back guy (35%)
- The armrest hog (34%)
- Pungent foodies (30%)
- The undresser (28%)
- The amorous (28%)
- The mad bladder (22%)
- The single and ready to mingle (18%)
The most annoying type
Of all the categories highlighted above, the rear seat kicker turned out to be the most annoying type of airline passenger for three consecutive years, since 2014. This type of passengers beat the others, including “smelly” and inattentive parents.
This Study was commissioned by the online travel company but carried out by Gfk, an independent market research company. A total of 1,005 Americans aged 18 or over were quizzed for the study.
According to Expedia spokesperson, “A prevailing theme across all four years of study is the importance people place on the sanctity of their personal within the tight confines of an airplane.”
Individual passengers have their own ways of handling pesky co-passengers; you may have to utilize all the avenues provided by the airline to bring an annoying passenger to order or learn how to adjust to the uncomfortable situation until you arrived at your destination.
This study is very useful in addressing the spike in the number of rowdy in-flight arguments and fisticuffs.
