'Karens at the airport': Flight gets delayed till 3:45am, five Karens throw tantrums

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Ben Weiss • Writer and Editor
Apr 23, 2023 8:00 AM EDT

There's nothing like a flight delay to bring out the most ridiculous behavior. The reality is regardless of whether or not it's a weather issue or an issue with the plane itself, if there's someone to blame, it's certainly not the airline agents. In fact, they're the ones who are staying till 4am just like the passengers. If anything, there should be more identification with these workers, not vitriol.

 

Unfortunately, Karens with tempers can't fully comprehend this concept. This Redditor managed to observe five different Karens lose their minds over the course of this long night at the airport. No one seemed to understand that throwing a fit wouldn't expedite the process, but as we said, these aren't concepts Karens can fully grasp when they're in a rage. Keep scrolling below to get the full play-by-play of each Karen meltdown. For more stories like this, here's one about a coworker's revenge. 

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    Font - Karens at the Airport The airport brings out all of the Karens. I'm a frequent business traveler and have seen most of the potential things that can go wrong with air travel. I learned long ago to roll with it and not take it out on the airline agents or flight crews. My connecting flight tonight through one of the largest US airports started getting delayed from its original 10:30 pm take off to after midnight, then later, and later. I see the writing on the wall and wander down to the h
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    Font - While that process happens, and so far during my campout here, I've witnessed various Karens in the wild engaged in: • Karen # 1 accosting an airline agent because the women's restroom nearest her gate has been closed by a cleaning crew for an hour, forcing her to walk 5 gates down to the next one. Karen is enthusiastically (angrily) telling the airline agent from about 20 feet away that airline agent needs to call someone or go down there herself and get the bathroom opened. "Yes ma'am,
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    Font - • Karens #2a & 2b are a pair of ladies, maybe sisters, maybe just friends with the same hair color, makeup, botox, and yoga pants, one in a sweatshirt, the other in a blazer. The middle of the night makes an opportune time for construction and maintenance you know? That includes an airport shutting down one track of the trains between terminals and even some of the walkways for repairs or upgrades? IDK.
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    Font - These Karen twins decide that the signs and digital signs about slow train service, and the big yellow barriers with red signs about no access due to construction, and the security worker, can't REALLY apply to them. They proceed to sidle over to the barrier to good cop / bad cop the security guard to insist they need to walk through the construction zone to get to baggage claim instead of waiting 7 minutes for the train. After being denied, they act like those kids in a movie looking aro
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    Font - • Karen #3 is an older man who tries the same act right after 2a and 2b. In fact, his approach to the security guard is when the first 2 try seeing if they can jiggle the fence.
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    Font - • Karens # 4 & 5: An older married couple at 3 am stuck here like many others from cancelled flights. They walk up the doors of the airport club, which are roped off and locked. The signs are very obvious that it is closed and reopens at like 6 am. These are the automatic sliding doors. They try forcing them apart. Then they pull them outwards to open and break in. One waves their traveling couple friends in. A minute or 2 later I see them come back out, followed by a cleaning crew person
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    Font - I've already forgotten other examples because I'm delirious from lack of sleep. At least there were some nice people. A lot of very nice airline agents who have shown far more patience then I could in their shoes. A fellow passenger who politely asked if she could line jump me at the helpdesk simply to ask the guy for a bottle of water and a blanket. I was like, yep, no problem, I'm not going anywhere for a while. She was like, I'll ask for one for you too! Just be kind to other people an
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    Font - Humble-Plankton2217. 2 days ago I want one of those inflatable Chillbo things in case I need to sleep rough at the airport. Put my bag underneath me, sleep on top of it.
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    Font - awhq 16 hr. ago It's so true. A few years ago, we booked a flight to Hawaii. We had to change planes in LA. Our original flight had a 2.5 hr layover but the airline rescheduled us to one with only a 30 min layover. Our choice was to take the change or to cancel the whole flight. Not knowing if we could get another flight to get us there on the dates we needed, we accepted the change, realizing we might not make it and we'd have to wait for another flight in LA, probably missing one day of
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    Font - We are old and have arthritis. We did our best to make it to our connecting flight but, when we arrived at the gate out of breath, the gate agent said the flight was closed. We both just burst out laughing. The gate agent said "Wait right here." and she went down the jetway, coming back a minute later saying the captain said we could get on.
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    Font - We hustled our down the jetway, sat down and buckled up. The flight attendant immediately handed us two glasses of champagne. We weren't even in first class (more like business class). I'm convinced the only reason we got on that flight is that we laughed and didn't start bi at the gate agent for something that was realistically out of her control.
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    Font - Quirky Yesterday9407. 12 hr. ago You must be a fun couple and well- matched. I love it!
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