Sure. We’ve all had some annoying flights in our lifetime.
The dreaded seat-kicking from an unsupervised child behind you. The awkward moment the stranger next to you falls asleep on your shoulder. The man sporting so much cologne you can’t breathe.
But these annoying scenarios are nothing compared to the horror stories from the brave flight attendants working the front lines.
Thrillist reveals some first-hand stories from flight attendants that will give you chills. In the article Flight Attendants Reveal The Worst Flights They’ve Ever Worked, you will hear just how intense it can get when you are hurtling through the sky and responsible for the well being and safety of some crazy people, during crazy weather and crazy circumstance.
It’s entertaining, but only from a distance. I can’t imagine being on the flight where all hell breaks loose. Give it a read here.
Got your own nightmare flight stories to tell? Comment below.
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I was bumped up to FIRST CLASS on a flight to Chicago and happened to be sitting next to a famous basketball player who was 7’2″!!!! Upon landing I asked if I could help him with some of his carry on items. He thanked me and asked me to take the garment bag. As we exited the aircraft, people started to mob him asking for autographs. One person asked the silly question “….how’s the weather up there?” He spit on him and said “…it’s raining.” to which the questioner pushed him and that started the fight. There were airport police right there and they separated he two people. I was in the mkiddle and did not want to interfere.
As a former flight attendant I have had people hand me their full vomit bag on their way out. Also opened a tray table to find someone’s used maxi pad. Once found a half eaten can of spam in a seat back pocket. There’s so much more but there’s not enough time to tell it all.
Not quite a nightmare, but on one of our flights the overhead bin over the people seated in front of us hadn’t been closed tightly.
I tried to tell the flight attendant so that the bin wouldn’t open during flight and cause a problem. The flight attendant basically told me to mind my own business. She didn’t want a passenger bringing a potential problem to her attention, most likely because she didn’t want to be embarrassed and she felt she was the one in authority.
Many passengers can cause problems, but so can flight attendants at times if they are too proud to take a warning from a passenger.