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Flights From Hell

Airplane Flights From Hell flies you into the unfriendly skies with stories about the adventures and anxieties of airline travel.

Commercial airline travel takes us far, far out of our comfort zone. We're herded into cylinders that zip hundreds of miles per hour at 30,000 feet, subjected to security screenings, confronted with delays and lost luggage, rushed to catch connecting flights, constrained to small seats, scrunched up with strangers, and surrounded by pathogens.

Is it any wonder we end up becoming a bundle of raw nerves by journey's end?

FLYING HELL STORIES

Find out what others
have had to endure by
reading true tales of
flights gone bad
written by passengers
and flight crews.

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PREGNANT AND SQUASHED
BY A SEAT

One of the worst flights I had ever been on started as one of the best flights. I was 8 ½ months pregnant, almost 6 weeks from my due date and had no choice but to fly from Frankfurt Germany to Sacramento CA. Yeah a long flight. All the...

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A special thanks to everyone who has shared their flying hell experiences, and to those who contributed comments about them.

Because a large number of stories are sometimes received, please understand that it can take a while for them to be posted. Stories are generally posted in the order in which they were received. Check periodically for your story; click here for helpful information.

Keep those stories coming, and look for many new tales of adventures, misadventures, annoyances and weird people to come your way!



	Stories With The Most Comments Incessant Whiner (118 Comments) Ugly Americans Taught A Lesson (106 Comments) Drunks Created Up In The Air (81 Comments) Neanderthal Man (76 Comments) Toddler Section Suggestion (64 Comments)

FLYING FEATURES

Here you'll find articles and videos about flying-related topics.

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Flight Of Fear Cartoon

The This Modern World cartoon below features a panoply of flying hell issues which are described in numerous stories on our site - poor customer service, portly passengers, cell phone use, delays, annoying passengers, dissatisfactory flight attendant...

"THE PERFECT PASSENGER"

How should passengers behave and appear in order to be considered perfect? Using mostly stories that are posted on our site, we've listed the don'ts that one should follow if trying to avoid annoying everybody...

See the rest of these posts and more in Flying Features.

FLYING HELL NEWS

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Kids on a plane! 5 fixes for unruly young passengers
(CNN) - 6/29/09
No four words incite more acrimonious debate among air travelers. Not "your flight is delayed." Not "here's a new fee." Not even "snakes on a plane."...

Read the rest of this story and lots more weird and interesting articles in Flying Hell News.



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KUDOS TO FRONTIER AIRLINES

After reading all the horror stories on this site, I just wanted to make a kind comment about one of the BEST customer service experiences I have had in the past few years...

Read the rest of this comment and others in Commentary.

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FLIGHTS FROM HELL: YOU'RE NOT ALONE

Finally there is a place to vent about our flying travails. Check out http://flightsfromhell.com/. It will make you laugh; it will make you cry; it may make you want to stay out of sky! But it is a lot of fun to read and commiserate with others. Not to miss: The post about "Mr. Poopy Pants." I am a very tolerant traveler, but I do have a couple of hellish stories of my own...

Read the rest of this blog and others in Guest Blogs, as well as many more flying hell stories in the Blog Links page.



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