As soon as people hand over their luggage at the check-in counter, they also check in their dignity and common sense. Because none of that follows them through security. The only things that make it onto the plane along with your overpriced coffee are an enormous amount of audacity and a neck pillow they do not know how to wear correctly.
People online recently asked cabin crew to share the most facepalm-inducing questions they have ever been asked at altitude, and the thread shows us that common sense often misses its connection. These are real questions that will quickly make it clear why we need a cartoon chart about how to fasten a seatbelt.
#41
Pax comes back before we bring the cart out with a concerned look on her face:
“I don’t really know if you can do this, but….there is a gas cloud around the middle of the plane, and it is BAD, I’ve asked a few people if it was them and asked if anybody around us needed gas-x but no one really responded, I’m wondering if you could figure it out and offer them this”::tries to hand us said gas-x
Me and the other FA with incredulous looks: “ohh….noooo, we can’t do that”.
“I don’t really know if you can do this, but….there is a gas cloud around the middle of the plane, and it is BAD, I’ve asked a few people if it was them and asked if anybody around us needed gas-x but no one really responded, I’m wondering if you could figure it out and offer them this”::tries to hand us said gas-x
Me and the other FA with incredulous looks: “ohh….noooo, we can’t do that”.
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#42
“Are we moving??”
Bc the flight was so smooth. She pulled me in and was so serious. It was her first flight.
Bc the flight was so smooth. She pulled me in and was so serious. It was her first flight.
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#43
Guest waved me over during boarding and asked me to turn off the boarding music because it was "annoying". Also had a guy in business class get on his knees and lay his head down onto his seat to sleep. Asked me not to wake him up till landing.
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15points
#44
Middle of the flight passenger asked me how to roll down her window. She was hot!
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14points
#45
Pax: (Sat near L2 door)
Is that noise completely necessary?
Me: Yes, its the engine.
(B757 just after take off).
Is that noise completely necessary?
Me: Yes, its the engine.
(B757 just after take off).
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#46
I think it’s funny (weird) when you’re in a different country or going to a different country where English isn’t the language, passengers ask you if you speakEnglish… when you’re working for a US carrier…like how could I work here if I don’t speak English…
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#47
Not something said but something that happened, I spilt a tea all over my hand and arm, rushed to the toilet to try and get it under water, as I opened the door pax pushed past me and said “thank you ” like I held it open for her…
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#48
“ what freshly squeezed juices are you offering today?”
“orange apple cranberry freshly squeezed out of this container” 🤓.
“orange apple cranberry freshly squeezed out of this container” 🤓.
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#49
“Can you heat my food in the microwave?”
“Where do you keep the ice machine?” Oh it’s right here next to my espresso maker and my hammock.
“Where do you keep the ice machine?” Oh it’s right here next to my espresso maker and my hammock.
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13points
#50
I was working a flight from SFO to HNL and a girl came to the back to get a drink. She looked out the window and literally screams “oh my god!!! Are we over the ocean?”.
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13points
#51
Had just handed out customs forms on our way to Cancun. Two women in their twenties ring their call light. “It’s asking us for our nationality - do we put Catholic?”.
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13points
#52
Hmm, I think the weirdest one I had was when someone asked if they could let their dog s**t in the aft galley (on a potty pad) because the 737 lav was too small.
Hell. No.
Hell. No.
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13points
#54
I had a passenger ask me if I had a notary once. In the middle of a flight!
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12points
#55
Just last month i had a lady ask me if i had a spare bulb to change her reading light because hers did not work.
additionally i’ve had someone ask me to call the captain and ask him to fly faster bc he was going to miss his connection. i told him i cannot do that and he said “yes you can, they’ve done it for me before.” i laughed and walked away.
additionally i’ve had someone ask me to call the captain and ask him to fly faster bc he was going to miss his connection. i told him i cannot do that and he said “yes you can, they’ve done it for me before.” i laughed and walked away.
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#56
"What do you have?" - always asked even after making the announcement that we have a drink menu in the seatback pocket. That's the one question that ALWAYS makes me sigh internally.
That, and "Can I go to the restroom?" while we are doing the safety demo and pushing back from the gate. Lord. Have. Mercy.
That, and "Can I go to the restroom?" while we are doing the safety demo and pushing back from the gate. Lord. Have. Mercy.
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11points
#57
6am flight, doing compliance after the demo, and a girl shoved a piece of gum in my face and said “when can I have this?” like whenever u feel like queen HAHAH she was trying to ask when a good time to take it for her ears would be but it was too early for either of us to function properly.
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10points
#58
30 minute flight, pax asking for a veg hot meal, I gave her salted peanut, told her this is veg and i walk off.
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10points
#59
We hit a little sleet during flight and a little old lady asks me “Did we just hit a cloud?”
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