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Joys of night-flights....

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grannysue05 Fri 01-Sept-17 13:42:59

Just returned from holiday and had to use a night flight as the only option on that day.
Prior to travelling, I had been reading a glossy magazine which gave advice for night flights.
The blurb went something like this:
Settle into your seat and start to remove make-up with a deep cleanse lotion.
Apply toner with fresh cotton pads and smooth in a nourishing night cream.
Brush hair into a loose silken pony tail so that you can sleep comfortably.
Recline seat (!!!) and sleep the flight away to land refreshed and beautiful.

Reaality....Sat on a bulkhead row with a clip on plastic table where my requested cup of hot tea promptly slid off.
Tried to settle but baby in row behind had a colicky cough which continued for the five hour flight.
Very large male traveller in next seat took all the armrest, so I was pinned in.
Considered removing make-up with cream cleanser, but security removed everything liquid.
Lastly, seat fixed so no possibility of reclining. Stewardess said seats are upright for safety reasons!
Oh for the luxury of a first class Emerites or similar.....now....if I had the cash........

Eglantine19 Fri 08-Sept-17 15:20:01

Does someone who has paid for one seat have a right to one and a half? Next time someone overflows, consciously and deliberately, into my seat I shall hoist my feet up onto their lap. Which I would quite like to do anyway. So much more comfortable if you can get your feet up.
The reason I don't do it now is because I think that they might not like that level of intimate contact and because I respect their space. But if they won't afford me that courtesy....

MissAdventure Fri 08-Sept-17 15:26:45

Should make for an interesting flight! smile

Eglantine19 Fri 08-Sept-17 15:45:18

Il probably be the one that gets chucked off! grin

MissAdventure Fri 08-Sept-17 16:04:25

I'd love to be a passenger on that flight, I can just picture it!grin

Nannylovesshopping Fri 08-Sept-17 16:23:50

Eglantine 19 have read all the posts on this thread, and have to say completely agree with you. To me it's all about spacial awareness, whether on a plane, bus etc., my particular gripes are waiting to pay in a queue, someone behind, maybe in a hurry, stands far too close to me, I guessing here to hurry me up, or the person who parks their car over the designated space in car park so I have problems getting my self and passengers out. The latest is the dog owners who think it's fair game to allow their dogs to hurtle over the field to greet/terrorise my nervous rescue cocker spaniel, saying it's alright, they are friendly, but mine doesn't want a play date, I ask them to call off their dogs, but of course their dogs aren't trained so they aren't able to, I was told yesterday to keep my dog in if she's not sociable, my dog never approaches others, so really as I see it, it's all about what others want, lay all over you in a plane etc., with complete disregard for other people, a distinct lack of manners and social graces!

PamelaJ1 Fri 08-Sept-17 17:22:25

It is a fact that if a passenger is too big for his/her seat he/she can't help but overflow into the next one. It's not as though sucking in a stomach and holding ones breath is going to do it. Once they choose their seat in cattle class or on a budget airline it's a given.

NfkDumpling Sat 09-Sept-17 07:53:42

I think it's a fact that most people are too big for airline seats in one direction or another. I've had real problems with a neighbours long legs and large feet taking too much of my space too.

I would love to upgrade but then I wouldn't afford to go. Perhaps that the answer to world air pollution. Abolish cattle class, then fewer people would travel.