Plane etiquette

There are four empty ROWS behind me--yes, ROWS--and yet the woman
sitting next to me isn't moving into one of them. Always move into the
empty rows. Then everyone gets more room. I can't cause I'm a window
seat.

RUDE. I want an empty seat next to me, dammit!

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Chaos on the plane

There's a non English-speaking woman sitting in my seat...and her
husband sitting next to her...don't really know what to do about this.
Just grabbed a random seat. Sheer chaos.

Also, CMH got a full body scanner. Fancy.

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Well, this is...different

My seat only has half a seatbelt. And this is one of those prop planes
where it's as wide as my arm span. SYR to LGA get crunk!

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O-hi-o

On my way to Columbus for about 36 hours to interview for a fellowship
with the Ohio State Legislature. I intended to drink a casual beer
while waiting for my plane, but instead got distracted working on my
thesis (due on Friday!) and ended up having to essentially chug the
whole thing. Well, nothin' wrong with bein' a little tipsy in the sky...

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Ryanair introduces "childfree" flights!

I can totally get behind this. From the Ryanair website:

Ryanair, the world’s favourite airlines, today announced that it will introduce ‘Child Free’ flights from October (winter schedule) after a Europe-wide survey of 1,000 passengers showed that half would pay higher fares to avoid other people’s children. The survey showed that a third of passengers (36%) have had flights ‘ruined’ by other people’s noisy kids with one in five passengers (18%) urging Ryanair to restrict the number of children on flights.

While the survey found that passengers would prefer to avoid other people’s children, it placed ‘blame’ firmly with parents with top gripes being:

1. 50% Parents who expect ‘special treatment’ because they have children.

2. 25% Parents who allow children to annoy those in seats behind.

3. 15% Parents who board late and expect others to accommodate them.

4. 10% Parents who allow children to run in the aisles or kick seats.