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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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Just got back from our annual hols and very nice it was too.
But! - I will be writing two letters of complaint, which I'll expand upon further, but they are basically as follows:
1. To Easyjet for passenger behaviour.
2. To the Home Office about passport control.
Did I miss rant Thursday  |
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"Just got back from our annual hols and very nice it was too.
But! - I will be writing two letters of complaint, which I'll expand upon further, but they are basically as follows:
1. To Easyjet for passenger behaviour.
2. To the Home Office about passport control.
Did I miss rant Thursday "
Home office, passport, and control. All in the same sentence?  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Bad passenger behaviour is not restricted to Easyjet.
I have actually experienced it more on legacy carriers than with low cost.
If you are travelling low cost tho you have always got to figure in the potential for stag & hens + groups of mates in holiday high spirit.
The cost of a diversion to an airline is huge. Many, many thousands so most won't divert on short haul flights unless there is a threat to the crew or aircraft.
Glad you enjoyed your hols tho  |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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 to above replies.
Now let's start with Easyjet. Okay you always seem to get the idiots who want the whole plane to hear their conversations and the people - usually kids - who want to kick your chair in from behind. Tick both those off our list 
But , what I was quite surprised at on our four hour flight was :
- children running the length of the plane, up and down, up and down.
- children crawling the aisle of the plane.
- adults standing for long periods of time by other people they knew / not by their own seat jabbering away and annoying other passengers.
Easy jet response - fuck all 
They state in their intro their recommendation that you remain seated with belt on for safety reasons, so I would have thought they would have at least tried to tackle the above.
I shall be writing a in-flight etiquette list and suggest to easyjet they pop it in each persons party pack |
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By (user no longer on site)
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" to above replies.
Now let's start with Easyjet. Okay you always seem to get the idiots who want the whole plane to hear their conversations and the people - usually kids - who want to kick your chair in from behind. Tick both those off our list
But , what I was quite surprised at on our four hour flight was :
- children running the length of the plane, up and down, up and down.
- children crawling the aisle of the plane.
- adults standing for long periods of time by other people they knew / not by their own seat jabbering away and annoying other passengers.
Easy jet response - fuck all
They state in their intro their recommendation that you remain seated with belt on for safety reasons, so I would have thought they would have at least tried to tackle the above.
I shall be writing a in-flight etiquette list and suggest to easyjet they pop it in each persons party pack "
I hate to say it however and whilst I agree, my son and his girlfriend went to Mexico with their under 2 year and they couldn't keep her in the seat. On the plus side, she did go and say hello to every passenger on the flight |
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sorry but the days of refined air travel have long past,
gone with the days when all men wore a tie and a jacket and the ladies had their best frock on.
air travel is for the masses now and as such you will have to put up with the proletariat plebs on your flight.
why not book with a premium airline and fly first class as i'm sure the people there will be more to your liking  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Why do some people feel the need to leave their seat,and go for a little stroll on a plane,blocking the aisle and perhaps talking over the top of other passengers.after all you don't see folk on a bus or coach journey doing the same |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"sorry but the days of refined air travel have long past,
gone with the days when all men wore a tie and a jacket and the ladies had their best frock on.
air travel is for the masses now and as such you will have to put up with the proletariat plebs on your flight.
why not book with a premium airline and fly first class as i'm sure the people there will be more to your liking "
It's a question of common courtesy
Do only people dressed nicely have manners in your world |
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"Why do some people feel the need to leave their seat,and go for a little stroll on a plane,blocking the aisle and perhaps talking over the top of other passengers.after all you don't see folk on a bus or coach journey doing the same"
thought you were supposed to move around, i read somewhere it helps to stop DVT (deep vein thrombosis) |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I shall be writing a in-flight etiquette list and suggest to easyjet they pop it in each persons party pack "
Not certain it's a grammatical error, but pretty sure that those words can't exist in sequence. "in-flight etiquette" just does not seem to be a viable construct.
Perhaps you could request the pilot to find some turbulence next time  |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"I shall be writing a in-flight etiquette list and suggest to easyjet they pop it in each persons party pack
Not certain it's a grammatical error, but pretty sure that those words can't exist in sequence. "in-flight etiquette" just does not seem to be a viable construct.
Perhaps you could request the pilot to find some turbulence next time "
It did cross my mind a bit of bumpety bump would come in handy  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Do you think your inflight experience would have been any different on Ryanair, Jet2, Thomas Cook, Thomson, Monarch, First Choice or any other airline that ply the summer holiday routes ?
They cater to a market. That market involves people travelling in groups, people in high spirits and people travelling with young kids.
What you describe may be annoying to people travelling quietly as a couple or small family, but it is not unusual behaviour on those flights.
Airlines need to cater to the needs of their core passenger base. On leisure routes, the groups you describe form a large part of that market.
Whilst annoying and not safe in terms of kids running round if the inflight service is in operation, none of it put either the crew or flight in jeopardy. That is the airlines overriding concern.
Now then imagine the crew tackles let's say a loud passenger who has had one too many in the airport and he or she takes objection to it and kicks off. Then they have a real problem.
So maybe whilst irritating it maybe better left alone unless it is escalating (in their eyes).
If writing to them makes you feel better in getting summat off your chest, then do so and await your sorry letter, an undertaking to investigate and maybe, if you're lucky, a money off a flight voucher, but little will change in terms of their operation.
If you do get that tho, let us know b4 mid June cos we are headed to Barcelona with them and if I can get money off our next flight, am sure I can find at least one thing to moan about |
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"sorry but the days of refined air travel have long past,
gone with the days when all men wore a tie and a jacket and the ladies had their best frock on.
air travel is for the masses now and as such you will have to put up with the proletariat plebs on your flight.
why not book with a premium airline and fly first class as i'm sure the people there will be more to your liking
It's a question of common courtesy
Do only people dressed nicely have manners in your world "
I was referring to when air travel was looked on as something special, now it is looked on no differently to getting on a bus and you have to mix with all those people who shop at Aldi & Lidl, and not your Waitrose patrons |
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"sorry but the days of refined air travel have long past,
gone with the days when all men wore a tie and a jacket and the ladies had their best frock on.
air travel is for the masses now and as such you will have to put up with the proletariat plebs on your flight.
why not book with a premium airline and fly first class as i'm sure the people there will be more to your liking
It's a question of common courtesy
Do only people dressed nicely have manners in your world "
No excuse for being polite, have good manners and being considerate and paying attention to your environment... That you got a suit on and a brief case or a stained tshirt and holes in his jeans... This is imo basic social skills.
Hope this made sense in English now lol
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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UK Border Agency
Okay so went on holiday and took my daughter and her friend - both under 18.
We had no problems going out of the UK, but wow did we get a bollocking last night at Gatwick. Why? Because we had a child in our care that was not related to us. Where did we go wrong ? Apparently if we had a letter from the girls mother everything would have been fine
So it's okay to take children out if the UK border control didn't give a shit then Really? But if you want to bring your kidnapped children back into the UK make sure you have a magic letter with you. What a letter proves exactly god only knows...... We could have written one out ourselves, how would they know  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"UK Border Agency
Okay so went on holiday and took my daughter and her friend - both under 18.
We had no problems going out of the UK, but wow did we get a bollocking last night at Gatwick. Why? Because we had a child in our care that was not related to us. Where did we go wrong ? Apparently if we had a letter from the girls mother everything would have been fine
So it's okay to take children out if the UK border control didn't give a shit then Really? But if you want to bring your kidnapped children back into the UK make sure you have a magic letter with you. What a letter proves exactly god only knows...... We could have written one out ourselves, how would they know "
I have taken in the past my kids friends on holiday abroad with us. One thing I did was to get a letter from them along with contact numbers staring who we were where we were going and that we had permission to take them along with permission for any emergency treatment they may have needed whilst in our care. This went with us wherever we were. |
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By *inaTitzTV/TS
over a year ago
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I thought it had been quiet in here 
I've only flown the once, but if I did again, I'd probably be one of the peeps out of my seat talking to everyone, getting to know people 
You've missed out the most important part, though - where is our rock? |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"UK Border Agency"
My daughter went on a round the world trip alone at 17, she stayed with various friends in New York, LA, Sydney, Perth, Cape Town then flew home.
She got interrogated about flying alone as a minor on arrival home in Heathrow, no other immigration officials questioned a minor travelling alone. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"I thought it had been quiet in here
I've only flown the once, but if I did again, I'd probably be one of the peeps out of my seat talking to everyone, getting to know people
You've missed out the most important part, though - where is our rock? "
You'd be firmly wedged into your seat Tina. No way would you get your bosom down the centre aisle lol  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Why do some people feel the need to leave their seat,and go for a little stroll on a plane,blocking the aisle and perhaps talking over the top of other passengers.after all you don't see folk on a bus or coach journey doing the same
thought you were supposed to move around, i read somewhere it helps to stop DVT (deep vein thrombosis)"
on a 35 minute flight from belfast to liverpool?? hardly worth unbuckling yr seatbelt,but as soon as the fasten seatbelt light goes out,there they are walking up n down the aisle,talking to their mates and using the toilet |
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