'I get a reply from the CEO': Business trip gets cut short for an obnoxious passenger after she ruins an 8-hour flight for everyone, insulted traveler writes a heated complaint after doing some clever sleuthing

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Jesse Kessenheimer • Writer and Editor
Dec 3, 2024 1:00 PM EST

In this story, justice becomes the in-flight entertainment. 

The only way to actually enjoy a long flight is to become rich enough to afford first class, but until then, the rest of us are seated uncomfortably in Economy, counting down the minutes and hours until we can straighten our legs again. Trapped in the aluminum tube of white noise, TV dinners, and last year's blockbuster hits, travelers need to unplug and do their best to unwind and find some semblance of tranquility. But when the airplane zen is bombarded by the world's loudest, crudest, and drunkest passenger, it's almost impossible to find peace. 

This petty passenger stood up against a powerfully intoxicated adversary and they were literally applauded by the rest of the plane. 

Amid an 8-hour flight home from Japan to South Africa, this man was baffled when the business woman seated behind him started ordering drinks like it was her 21st birthday. Although she was boarded with her fellow coworkers on their way to a work conference, her childish behavior was still doomed to affect everyone negatively. So, after 6 brandies and several hours of extremely loud and inappropriate conversation, one man had the guts to stand up to her. But when her mistreatment continued to go too far, he decided to take it up with corporate instead.

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    I got an obnoxious passenger fired. This is a long one but it was the best revenge story of my life so far.
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    I'm a South African living in japan and I took my japanese wife to meet my parents and have a honeymoon in South Africa. On the first of three flights back to japan was from joburg to Qatar. We take our
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    seats and get settled in. I noticed that lot of the passengers around us were wearing the same t-shirts (some kind of pharmaceutical company) As soon as we got settled in, I noticed that the woman and
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    two men Sat behind us were also employees of this company. As soon as they got settled in, I noticed she (lets call her Brandy) was quite chatty, loud and a bit obnoxious. But, I am a nervous flyer so at the time, I was more worried about the take off, than her.
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    So I put my earpods on And woosh. We take off for our 8hr flight to Qatar. As soon as the seat belt sign switched off, Brandy started ordering brandy and cokes for herself and her 2 coworkers. As each
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    drink came Brandy's voice got louder more obnoxious. After drink number 6 the topic of her conversation turns to relationships. By this time half the cabin could hear their conversation about how
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    she disapproves of interracial relationships. Even I could hear her through the gutteral screams and face melting guitar riffs of Meshuggah blasting through my earpods.
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    Then it happened. A nice woman sitting on 4 seats to her left quite loudly says 'mam, could you please quiet down. You're a bit loud and I am trying to get some sleep. I heard it too, so paused the
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    song and took out my left earpod to excitedly eavesdrop. Brandy was not happy. She says 'excuse me, this isn't a nighttime flight. Haven't you heard of earplugs? And then jumps straight back into her conversation.
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    The tension in the air immediately changed. In that moment all the people who heard the interaction caught eyes with each other and we all knew this flight was about to get interesting. About 20min later a flight attendant
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    comes and politely asks Brandy to quiet down a bit. She begrudgingly agrees, orders another round and quiets down. But, it only takes Brandy about 30 min to get all the way back up to a volume louder than the jet engines roaeing outside the windows.
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    Then another Chinese woman from the other side of the cabin gets up and walks to where Brandy is sitting, and in her best attempt at english says 'please be quiet, my child keeps waking up because of you'. Brandy
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    looks up and u sh you not, asks this Chinese woman in very mispronounced Chinese 'can you speak Chinese?' (I'm fluent in Chinese so I could understand what she was trying to say) And just kept repeating it until the frustrated Chinese woman went back to her seat.
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    By this time both flight attendants for our cabin were very much aware of Brandy's sassy nature and decided to close the bar for the whole cabin, which ped me off cause I was hoping to enjoy a few more whiskeys before we landed.
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    A few minutes later I hear sound of shuffling then plastic and then the faint sound of what sounds like the cap of a glass bottle being cracked open. Then the sound of liquid being poured into cups. Yup,
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    Brandy had opened her bottle of duty free brandy she bought at the airport. And once again their conversation began to crescendo. Now, the whole time I had
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    been spectating the Brandy situation, I wasn't really paying attention to my wife who I assumed was sleeping next to me. I then saw my wife pull one of her earpods out turn to try and get a look
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    at Brandy through the crack in the seat and then turn to look at me with a face I rarely see my wife make. It was a face of pure rage and frustration. I snapped. Now usually I'm. Not the kind of
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    person who likes to cause a scene but I decided that I'm not going to let this a hole of a woman ruin my wife's flight. So like a crazy person, I stood up and announced loud
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    enough that the entire cabin turned to hear me 'excuse me everybody. Can I please have all of your attention. By show of hands who of you would like these people to shut the f ? About 30 passengers all around us raised their hands. I then turn
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    to Brandy and just point say 'look. Understand? Shut up!' I sat back down to the sound of applause from all the passengers that were raising their hands. My wife was shocked that I did that, but I
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    told her that I did it cause | could see that Brandy was beginning to bother you too. She gave me a hug and the flight attendant that saw. what I did brought my a cup of 'coke' but slipped me 2 of those little bottles of whiskey.
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    Thankfully, Brandy and the gang then passed out and were quiet for the rest of the flight. So my wife and I could relax. But, Brandy wasn't finished. And now she had a new target, me.
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    On our decent, Brandy awakes and decides that she wants to play some cards on the entertainment screen attached to the back of my seat. Trying her best to hit the buttons hard enough to make my seat move. I teach kids for a living so I know that
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    she is behaving like an angry toddler trying to get a rise out of me, so I ignore her. We land, the plane taxis off the runway and everyone starts getting up to get off the plane. As soon as I get up
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    and she sees my wife and I she starts repeatedly insulting me about my weight and how I married an Asian woman because I can't get a real south African woman blah blah blah. Highschool buy level bullsgut. I just
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    smile and nod my head at everything she was saying and exit the plane. Finally Brandy and her coworkers walk off and my wife and I find a nice Cafe to have a coffee and chill and stretch for a bit before we make our way to the next boarding gate for our second flight to Malaysia.
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    We eventually get to the gate and low and behold, guess who's also flying to Malaysia? That's right. it's Brandy. Shes standing by the gate window taking selfies and doesn't notice me. I find an empty seat next a guy wearing the
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    same pharmaceutical company t-shirt and say ' excuse me sir, that woman over there with blonde hair taking selfie, what's her name? He asks me why and I say that she looks like someone I used to go to high-school with but I wasn't
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    sure and didn't want to make an a of myself asking her directly. He tells me and I say 'oh then it's not her sorry'. I thank him and for the remainder of the wait at the gate, logged into the airport
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    wifi, found there company's Facebook page and website and sent a detailed recount of Brandy's behavior being sure to include all the colorful things she was talking about with her coworkers.
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    The next 2 flights back to Japan we're uneventful and got home safe and sound. 2 weeks later I get a reply from the CEO asking me for my number as he would like to talk to me about what happened. He calls me and profusely apologizes for what Brandy put us through.
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    Turns out that by the time Brandy landed in Malaysia the CEO had seen my message, changed her return flight back to south africa for the very next day and fired her at arrivals in jhb airport when she got back.
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    I bought a bottle of Brandy and coke on my way home from work that day to celebrate with my lovely wife.
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    Becalmandkind This may be the best petty revenge I've ever read. Thank you, OP, on behalf of all of us. I might add, I don't think it's petty—it's just...correct....
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