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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 service, crying babies, animals, lousy food, plane problems, lost luggage and, of course, the dreaded reclining seats. Can […]

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Traveling from Indianapolis to Dallas, I had a window seat and no one seated next to me. Then it happened, a late passenger comes down the aisle and lands next to me. He was large and smelled strange. After he got situated, he spread out in his seat into my seat. He even lifted up […]

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I had to grab a last minute flight from Raleigh, NC to Birmingham, AL with a change of flights in Charlotte, NC. U.S. Air at the time was flying Fokker 100s for the short hop between RDU and CLT. The Fokker had 20 rows of seating with 2 seats on the left and 3 on […]

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I Smell Pee

July 8, 2009

in Odor Stories

Back in 2005, on a United flight from Omaha to Denver, I was seated in the front coach row waiting for our plane to take off. I was the only person on that side of the aisle and I had the window, so I thought I had it made. But just before the doors were […]

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So it is important to point out what kind of person my friend and I am. We hate people sitting between us on a flight. We will actually fake a cough to try to get people to not sit between us. Well this was a SW flight and we thought it may be empty since […]

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Took a flight from O’Hare to San Francisco. Sat in the last row, window seat. Only 1 open seat on the plane near the front of the plane. An overweight woman sat next to me whose thighs overhang her seat and squished next to mine. That is not the bad part (although it was bad). […]

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Barfzilla

June 27, 2009

in Portly Stories

A few months ago I was flying back from Heathrow to Minneapolis/Saint Paul. My seat was in the last row of an Airbus A310. My experience in the U.K was great. I suppose all good things come to an end. Barfzilla appeared and took the last seat – the middle seat in the row. My […]

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I was on a recent flight with my fiancé to Aruba when we actually thought we had a row to ourselves. Then I notice a waddler making her way to our row. She must have been 350 pounds, needed a seatbelt extension, and seemed to be hyperventilating just sitting still. Here is where it got […]

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(#1) I flew from Phoenix to Minneapolis in coach seat B row 18. If that wasn’t bad enough, seat A and C were occupied by a husband and wife who talked non-stop. To make matters worse neither could have the arm rest down and needed seatbelt expanders, because they each weighed 350 plus. The plane […]

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Most of you probably know that US Air charges $7 for meals. When they first started doing this last year, fatty behind me tried paying his $7 IN CHANGE! Fatty had almost enough quarters in his pocket to cover it. I couldn’t believe he was making the stewardess count all that change. They have such […]

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A Happy Ending

May 27, 2009

in Portly Stories

Actually my story has a happy ending! I was on a flight from Chicago to Phoenix. My ticket said row 23, seat A. I found my seat – an aisle one- and in the other two seats were two seriously overweight lards. They both smiled at me (I think they were looking forward to eating […]

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My girlfriend and I were recently on vacation in the Middle East. We had finally reached the end of our rigorous travel. Our first flight was from Aswan to Cairo at 11 pm, which was no big deal. We got our bags and had to push them in carts to the international terminal; mind you […]

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