Paula Gahan, a 10-year cabin crew veteran, has revealed the types of people that are especially off-putting (stock) (Image: Getty Images)
A flight attendant has listed five things that plane passengers should avoid doing if they don’t want to annoy the cabin crew.
can sometimes be an unpleasant experience, with busy and long queues to contend with, as well as the daunting prospect of stepping through the full-body scanner at security, and that’s before you even get on the plane.
Once there, depending on our , we often face cramped seating arrangements with little leg-room, with the inevitable ear-popping doing little to ease our sense of claustrophobia.
However, plane travel also comes with certain rules of etiquette, such as not clapping when you land and never going bare-footed during a flight.
Perhaps, we should also spare a thought for the hard-working who not only have to look after us while we travel but also have to endure our bad behaviour.
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Paula recounted how a passenger once decided to help themselves to her bag of Haribo (stock) (Image: Getty Images)
In fact, there are a few types of people that are especially off-putting for staff, according to Paula Gahan, a 10-year cabin crew veteran who recently shared the list with the Telegraph.
1. Food thieves
She said: “It’s curious: any food that’s sitting around on an aircraft – even if it’s in a lunchbox – seems to be fair game for passengers. They swoop in and swipe it without a glimmer of shame.”
Paula recounted an experience on a recent flight from , on which a passenger decided to help themselves to her bag of .
2. Aisle yogis
Paula described this type of person as “thirty-something women clad in Lululemon yoga pants” who decide to use their flight time to take in a spot of yoga, with Paula describing them as “annoying”.
3. Experienced flyers
It would appear that some flyers simply can’t fathom that cabin crew fly more often than they do, with Paula claiming that some people will even “yell” that they do.
However, she pointed out that no matter how often they say they fly, they won’t be enduring a further three flights in a single day.
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Plane travel often comes with certain rules of etiquette (stock) (Image: Getty Images)
4. ‘Special’ ones
Paula described this as a bout of passenger “special-itis”, explaining that some people will inconsiderately leave whatever’s left on their table in the galley for her to sort out after a meal.
5. Galley talkers
Her friend once told her that they enjoyed nipping into the galley at night to chat to the cabin crew and even believed the crew loved them, but Paula doesn’t think this is the case.
According to the flight attendant, the crew put up with them out of “kindness” before adding that people should “spare” them.