RSS
Home
Who are these people on my plane? Jetiquette cell phone offenders
Print
Email
RSS
Subscribe
.jpg)
I'm trying to accept the fact that I will not receive my upgrade for tonight’s red-eye flight from Los Angeles to New York and I’m not very happy about it. Maybe I should think about how much my character will benefit from working my way through this very acute disappointment. What will I do without all the extra space, comfort, and in-flight entertainment? Luckily my American Airlines flight has wireless internet to use if I’m unable to sleep so maybe I’ll be ok. When I’m not in business or first class, I can get a little grouchy; especially if there are people on my flight with poor Jetiquette.
Jetiquette: (JET.uh.kuht, -ket) n. The rules or norms that govern correct or polite behavior while on board an airplane—applies to passengers and crew and their level of interaction.
Cell Phone Infractions
Since this is a flight from LAX to JFK, I am almost guaranteed to have more than one “cell phone offender” on my flight. Have you had any of these people on your flight before? Here are a couple of the “most wanted” cell phone offenders on the “Most Wanted List” of Jetiquette offenders:.jpg)
“The Figures Guy” in seat 11A: You’ve seen him and you’ve definitely heard him as he shouts out big numbers like 48 million and about all the wheeling and dealing he’s got going. We even get to hear about the employee he wants fired by the time he lands at JFK and all the details about his wife’s redecoration of the Sag Harbour home—his soon to be ex-wife it turns out. Glad to see she wised up.
“Iona iPhone” in 25A: She was a Solid Gold dancer, but now she’s arrived and looking hot in her Juicy Couture sweat suit. Lot’s happening with a new reality show coming up and her life is the subject. Only now, she is acting it all out for everyone as she speaks into her iPhone. She’s got places to go and people to see when the plane lands in JFK and she wants everyone to know about it. Justin is picking her up at the airport and she’s getting together with “the girls” a little later before she does Regis and Kelly later in the morning.
There are many more we’ll talk about later. In the meantime, bring your headphones and your nerve tonic.
Related Articles:
Add a Comment
Many travelers, old enough to remember the days when people actually got dressed up to travel, sometimes long for a return to these time when flying …
Dear Sky Steward,My husband, a prominent attorney was flying to Texas from Washington and had a bit to drink before his flight. While we were in the …
