Kicking seats, smooching and drinking excessively: Do YOU commit one of most annoying plane passenger habits?
- Etiquette study examined passenger behaviours that most infuriate fellow fliers
- Rear seat kickers, inattentive parents and passengers who smell were the worst
- Other disliked travellers included those who booze and chat too much
Air travel is stressful enough and that's before you add your fellow passengers into the mix.
Rear seat kickers, inattentive parents and seat mates who smell have been voted the most annoying travellers in an aeroplane etiquette study.
From boozing and excessive chatting to undressing and becoming amorous, the new research has identified the mid-air behaviours that most infuriate fellow fliers.
Rear seat kickers and passengers who smell have been voted the most annoying travellers in an aeroplane etiquette study
The Expedia study solicited feedback from 1,005 Americans aged 18 and above.
For 64 per cent of those questioned, the 'Rear Seat Kicker' was the most aggravating passenger to encounter while on board.
'Inattentive Parents' - defined as 'parents who have no control over, or pay no attention to, their crying, whining or misbehaved children' - angered 59 per cent while 'Aromatic' passengers – those with poor hygiene or those wearing excessive cologne or perfume – were the third least-liked (55 per cent).
Forty-nine per cent couldn't stand the 'Audio Insensitive' passenger who talks loudly or listens to music without consideration for fellow fliers and the same percentage disliked the drunken, disruptive 'Boozer.'
'Inattentive Parents' - defined as 'parents who have no control over, or pay no attention to, their crying, whining or misbehaved children' - angered 59 per cent of fliers
The 'Chatty Cathy' – the neighbour who strikes up conversation and won't stop - rubbed 40 per cent of American fliers up the wrong way, with 35 per cent saying they would pay extra to be seated in a 'designated quiet zone,' should the airline offer one.
Thirty-five per cent took exception to the 'Seat-Back Guy' - the passenger who reclines his seat fully as soon as the plane takes off. And although 53 per cent do choose recline their seat, 27 per cent admitted they'd opt to have reclining seats banned entirely, or at least restricted to set times on short-haul flights.
The Americans questioned would deal with these problem passengers in different ways, with 62 per cent alerting the flight attendant and letting them handle the tricky situation, while 33 per cent would suffer in silence.
Retaliation also proved a another tactic.
Thirteen per cent would film the offending behaviour on their phone and five per cent would turn to social media.
Three per cent claim they 'shame a fellow passenger's behaviour via social channels,' while two per cent would simply 'tweet about it.'
While only just under three per cent of Americans admit to having 'been physically intimate' with another person on board, 28 per cent expressed disapproval towards these amorous passengers.
Flight attendants aren't unaffected by these bad habits either. Thirty nine per cent of Americans 'always' pay attention during safety presentations, while a similar per centage (42 per cent) say they do 'occasionally.'
Meanwhile only two-thirds (66 per cent) of fliers turn their phone to Airplane Mode when instructed to do so - while 15 per cent 'never' do.
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