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How Not To Behave On An Airplane
Interesting survey of inflight behavior. (www.lonelyplanet.com) 更多...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
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Hmmm. It seems to me that windows are for looking out of. It always amazes me when people choose to sit in a window seat and then don't use the window. They didn't really address this issue in the survey. They did ask a question apparently from the perspective of non-window seated passengers. Should window-seated passengers be deprived of a view just because someone next to them wants to sleep? I think not.
Agreed. I've passed entire flights just staring out the window. I never get tired of the view.
There is a time for everything. While I've been known to stare out the window for an entire flight (domestic flights are still the best for that activity), there are times when even I would hope everyone keeps the window shades closed. On a EGLL-KDFW flight last year in combined Business/First Class, every 5 or 10 minutes one particular passenger kept opening her window shade to peek out for about 10 seconds. Then she would close it again. Even though the flight was entirely in daylight most people obviously wanted to sleep, so the cabin had been darkened after the meal service. I wanted to go over and ask her exactly what she was looking for, since we were 36,000 ft over the Atlantic Ocean. The sudden brightness each time destroyed whatever night vision I had built up as I was watching a movie in the opposite window seat. When a FA went over to ask her to stop, her husband loudly asserted her rights to do anything she wanted since they had paid as much as anybody else, blah, blah, blah. As we went through Immigration and Customs, I could tell they had a very inflated opinion of themselves (the stereotypical "ugly Americans" that I thankfully don't see too much these days).
But this discussion also brings back one of the most humorous events that I ever saw on a plane. Before they went belly up, Renaissance Cruises used to charter Hawaiian Airlines DC-10s to fly their customers from KLAX to Papeete, Tahiti for a cruise. On the southbound flight, a balky air conditioning unit delayed our departure from KLAX by 2 or 3 hours. No problem, since Renaissance paid for a free drink at the airport bar. But this meant much of the flight was in total darkness. During that darkness, the pilot came on the PA to announce that we were just about to pass over the Equator. Dozens of window shades suddenly flew up and usually disinterested passengers pressed their faces to the windows to look downward at the dark Pacific. After a few seconds, the man in the row next to ours started laughing. When we looked at him questioningly, he said "They're expecting to see a dotted red line on the ocean, just like on maps." Then a few people decided to go to the toilets to demonstrate their knowledge of the Coriolis Force and see if they really did flush in the opposite direction in the Southern Hemisphere. They didn't. And there wasn't a dotted line on the ocean, either.
But this discussion also brings back one of the most humorous events that I ever saw on a plane. Before they went belly up, Renaissance Cruises used to charter Hawaiian Airlines DC-10s to fly their customers from KLAX to Papeete, Tahiti for a cruise. On the southbound flight, a balky air conditioning unit delayed our departure from KLAX by 2 or 3 hours. No problem, since Renaissance paid for a free drink at the airport bar. But this meant much of the flight was in total darkness. During that darkness, the pilot came on the PA to announce that we were just about to pass over the Equator. Dozens of window shades suddenly flew up and usually disinterested passengers pressed their faces to the windows to look downward at the dark Pacific. After a few seconds, the man in the row next to ours started laughing. When we looked at him questioningly, he said "They're expecting to see a dotted red line on the ocean, just like on maps." Then a few people decided to go to the toilets to demonstrate their knowledge of the Coriolis Force and see if they really did flush in the opposite direction in the Southern Hemisphere. They didn't. And there wasn't a dotted line on the ocean, either.
An old captain I flew with when starting out in the business told me a story about flying over the Great Crater just east of Flagstaff Az. It was a clear day, so he made an announcement to the pax. He explained how the crater had been formed by a meteor hundreds of thousands of years ago. At that time a flight attendent entered the cockpit. She stated she wanted a better look. As she peered out the cockpit window she said "that meteor almost hit that road." And the answer is no, she wasn't a blond.
Victor, please don't consider the wishes of others when you make a decision. We all know "it's all about You."