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Passenger Stories

Double Trouble

December 9, 2009 Passenger Stories

This isn’t a flight from hell, but it was kind of creepy. I was flying from BWI in Baltimore to Pensacola, FL for a vacation. I got to the luggage check-in and there was a couple waiting there. The guy behind the counter calls my name. The woman says, “We’re here,” or something to that [...]

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Blow-By-Blow Account Of Passenger’s Behaviors

December 7, 2009 Passenger Stories

The following is an e-mail I received from a friend, written on her Blackberry moment by moment on a JFK-LAX flight. Poor thing.
Center seat – fatty on one side, smelly on the other.
Smelly: nail biting, zit squeezing, furtive nose picking. Why furtive I don’t know wen all other manner of disgusting is not. Shoe on [...]

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Newspaper Reader’s Nettlesome Behavior

November 30, 2009 Passenger Stories

Last Thanksgiving I flew from Burlington, VT to Santa Ana, CA. I used frequent flier miles and was lucky enough to end up with the final 4 1/2 hour leg of the journey in 1st class. I had thought that this would allow me lots more room than I normally would have in coach. I [...]

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Flier Dislikes Chatty, Shutterbug Seatmate

November 29, 2009 Passenger Stories

I was on a flight from Redmond, Oregon to Phoenix Arizona, happy that I got booked in a window seat. I took my seat next to a nice older lady. We started chatting about what was in the newspaper, and discussing an article about lead in clothing. Then she completely changes the topic and tells [...]

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Plane Is Held Together By “Duct Tape”

November 25, 2009 Passenger Stories

“This is one of those things, that sounds worse than it is…” Has anyone ever said that to you? Does it ever make you feel better after they’ve told you the information? Well, this is one of those stories…
So I was in the USAF, and was heading home to see family from Little Rock to [...]

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Men Of The Cloth

November 19, 2009 Passenger Stories

Back in the mid-1990’s, I boarded a Delta flight from Helena, Montana to Salt Lake City, pretty much the only way to get anywhere else in the world if you lived in Helena, Montana. I was going to visit my parents in Georgia.
Little did I know that at the time, the Pope was visiting America. [...]

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Chutzpah Guy

November 17, 2009 Passenger Stories

I’ve flown hundreds of thousands of miles yet the oddness and stupidity of my fellow travelers never ceases to amaze me. On a recent evening flight from Houston to Tucson I observed a man teetering on the edge of insanity.
First, when we were taxiing for take-off he rang his flight attendant call button to tell [...]

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Bathroom Door Brouhaha

November 2, 2009 Passenger Stories

I was on a flight from New York to D.C. I got up from my seat and headed to the bathroom in the rear of the plane. I looked at the door and it said vacant. I pushed on the middle of the door to fold it in and open. To my surprise there was [...]

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Biker Dude’s Transformation

October 28, 2009 Passenger Stories

I was on a flight from Dallas to Atlanta (guess the airline). It was crowded and I was seated next to a pretty crazy looking, bearded biker guy that looked to be in his late twenties or early thirties. I remember thinking “good grief” when he took the middle seat next to mine. The funny [...]

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The Proselytizing Passenger

October 28, 2009 Passenger Stories

I was on a flight to Tampa to visit with family. I live in the northern US and so it was nice to be able to go down and not only spend a little time with family, but to get out to the beaches for some R&R as well. So I packed up my vacation [...]

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