20+ Flight attendants who clashed with their entitled passengers: 'I know there's a call button there, but don't ring it 15 million times'

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Remy Millisky • Writer and Editor
Jan 16, 2025 11:00 AM EST

Your flight is now boarding, it's nearly time for takeoff. All the passengers have to do is form an orderly line, and everything will go smoothly, right? Right?

Well… not always. It's no secret that people can barely board the plane correctly in the first place, since many of them won't listen to their boarding section. The flight attendants are boarding section A, so the section C folks just stand around with their hands in their pockets, just to make sure they don't miss their own boarding time. 

Once everyone is on the plane, it doesn't necessarily get any easier. Now it's time for the passengers to greet the flight attendants as they board, and embark upon that ever-challenging game of airplane Tetris: stowing their baggage. A lot of airports have a little box that you can place your carry-on bags in to make sure they fit. But that won't deter the people who have decided in their own minds that their bag will fit. They then have to push and shove their suitcase into the overhead compartments, smushing everyone else's luggage in the meantime. Many times, the flight attendant ends up being the person who rotates the bags and magically makes them fit. They really make it look easy! But they also have a few bones to pick with the passengers who antagonize them the most. 

Up next, this single mom who got dumped by her new BF over a tipping incident: "This tipping stuff is getting out of hand." 

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    "Flight attendants of reddit, what are some things that make you immediately hate a passenger?"

    [deleted] I once had a flight attendant who said in preflight, in an adorable German accent, "If you press the button above you once, someone will come to help you. If you press it twice, you will be ejected from the plane."
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    How entitled!

    [de... My older sister worked as a flight attendant. She hated when people would drop their carry-on at her feet and tell her to "find a place for it"
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    Also, there was an old lady who poked her in the bot to get her attention - repeatedly. Edit: forgot to mention the old lady was poking her with a fork
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    flygrlbanana DO NOT pull on our uniforms! If we tell you there's no more room for bags, just listen to us and check it. I know there's a call button there, but don't ring it 15 million times. Please don't ask us to put your bag
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    in the overhead compartment. We can help. you guide your bag up there, but most company inform us not to lift your bags. If we do and we get hurt, then we don't qualify for workmens comp.
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    [de... Not a flight attendant, but these that bring in carry on luggage the size of body bags and try to stuff them into the overhead bins taking up all the space for everyone else...
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    zombierapture Ive been a flight attendant for 20 years my number one pet peeve is cutting your nails or toenails on the plane. I can hear that sh from back in the galley even if you're in row 2 that's the most disgusting thing in the world to do on a plane. The other one is
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    trying to get your mile high club wings.People don't know how disgusting that bathroom is when people pee all over everything in there. In turbulence that wetness on the floor is not from the sink trust me.
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    dirty_grubby Not a flight attendant but the last time I flew this guy was plastered and kept saying "what's the deal with airline food?" Over and over with the worst Seinfeld impersonation you could imagine.
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    andgivethecatana... I worked as an airline reservation agent. My biggest pet peeve was people who couldn't put it together that if you tell the agent that you are incapable or disabled, you will NOT be given an exit seat for "leg room." In the event of an emergency, the other 120 paxes on the plane don't want to have a full minute
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    less to avoid dying. Please don't make an airline attendant spell that out for you. Also, those people who yelled at me because their so-and-so bf/son/uncle'speter was in the military, so they automatically qualified for a 99% discounted rate. Airline agents don't set the price of the ticket. Don't accuse
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    them of being greedy corporate cl (no, really) because they can't issue a $2 ticket to a man in uniform. Also, frankly, anyone from Boston or New York during a weather emergency. Never in my life had I heard the words "don't you know who I
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    AM?!" before telling a business class pax flying from Logan to JFK that the reason his flight was canceled was because ALL flights were canceled, in addition to almost all public transportation and basically anything that relied on electricity. Self-entitled pr1cks.
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    This flight attendant did not hold back while sharing their dislikes

    Peony724 Been working as a flight attendant for a year now.... Can't stand it when first class passengers shove their jackets at me as soon as they step through the doorway, especially when I already have an armful. When you put your super small bag jacket in the overhead bin.....there is
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    space under the seat in front of you for a reason...I shouldn't have to take the time to ask everyone whose jacket is in the bin so I can hand them out to find someone a space for ther large bag. Hold onto your jacket until the bags are all set up then place them on top Yelling at me that since you sit in the front part of economy that you should be
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    able to use the first class lavatory. This is a security violation and we can't have people in line by the flight deck. Hanging out in my galley. I understand the need to stretch your legs, especially on a long flight.....but when I am preparing or restocking my carts for whatever service we are offering in already such a small space | don't need you making it
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    more difficult for me to do my job. Pointing out from three rows away that such and such person needs to pull their seat back up when I'm trying to get people right in front of me to do it first.....trust me, we will get to that row and tell them ourselves, and no one likes a tattle tale!!!
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    Playing your game/movie/music without headphones. This is the worst, especially on a red eye flight. No one wants to listen to your crop during flight!!! I'm sure there's more but these are my main pet peeves
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    [deleted] I was seated next to a passenger who seemed to selectively understand the flight attendant. For the first meal, he responded pretty well about what meal he wanted. The second time, he just stared at her, with me sitting awkwardly between them while she tried to rephrase the options different ways to get some kind of answer. She was
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    getting visibly frustrated and he just didn't care (or something?). Efficiency seems to be the big thing in a tiny space and he was just content to be a big silent speedbump.
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    -Narble- I'm not a flight attendant but... I know kids grow restless on planes. I could never stand long flights as a little kid. But when you're allowing your kid to kick my chair, or scream, or throw things, or
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    whatever it is, I really hate you. Not your kid. You. Parenting is tough. But please, please, please. Try to settle your kid down.
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    Spinolio When I am running things, there will be some changes to air travel. Every passenger will be required to place any carry- on luggage in a mockup of the overhead bin at check- in. If it is too large, they will be required to check it. If they attempt to put it in lengthwise instead of wheels-in or -out, they will
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    be bumped from the flight and have to rebook for tomorrow. If you stand and block access to the gate before your group number is called, you will be placed on the no-fly list for a year. Finally, there will be a six foot wide yellow stripe painted around the luggage claim conveyor. Anyone caught loitering inside the
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    yellow zone, instead of standing back and waiting until they see their bag before crowding the carousel, will have their possessions fed into an industrial wood chipper.
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    HowCanSheSkat The know it all frequent flyer that wants to chat with everyone.
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    Tyr... Not a flight attendant, but as a 6'5 male I absolutely HATE the people who lean their seats back all the way on planes. Keep your seat up, the people behind you are plotting your death if you put them back.
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    Magical thinking has no place on this aircraft

    UrsaPater Telling passenger that there carry-on is too big to fit in the overhead bin, it will have to be checked. "But I have a tight connection." OK THEN! I will wave a magic wand and PRESTO! The bin just got bigger!
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    [deleted] Repeatedly using the word "stewardess."
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    tacodepollo Not a flight attendant, but goddamnit, if you need to use the overhead, use the one you know, over YOUR OWN HEAD. No need to store your sh in 3 different places, scattered throughout the plane. You
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    are _ everyone's sh up and adding time to exit the plane. If you do this, f you, I will not move so you can get yourbags, You can sit the f down and wait till the plane is empty.
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    nosayingbagpipe If you press that call button, and we're having anything above mild turbulence, you better be having a health issue because I will not risk breaking my ankle to get you some more juice. orange
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    carmino505 on narrowbody planes, if the last row of the plane is open (no assigned passengers)- please for the love of god- do not move there! they have been blocked off for a reason. please and thank you :)
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    Zelebron Body odors, some people have been flying all day or they don't know how they smell. The smell impregnates everything around it. There's nothing written on how to handle this. Kids flying with parents that when we ask them to fasten the kid's seat belt, the parents give this look as if it was the most horrible thing we ask their kids to do.
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    The parents let their kids dictate if it's okay to wear the seat belt or not. It's for safety, not our whim when we ask their kids to wear seat belts. If the kids throw a tantrum be a parent and do not let the kids do whatever they want.
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    [deleted] I work regional. "Can I see if my bag will fit anyway." And clean up after your J kids.
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    Just take a moment to listen to the flight attendant, people!

    stinkytinkles You're on a plane. You need to speak up, or I can't hear your drink order. At least take the headphones out while you're talking to me.
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    There's never a good reason to summon someone with a snap, it's so impolite

    [deleted] My sister is a flight attendant. She hates it when passengers beckon her by snapping their fingers.
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    juliefy Don't stack the stuff on the trays! If you don't know how things work, they need to be the same way I gave them to you to fit back in the trolley, you may think you are helping but I have to put everything back in place after you give it to me with the bonus points of touching your food. Ugh.
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    B tron2000 Not a flight attendant but, I'm a gate agent, if your flight is delayed or if you miss your flight because you were at the bar, it's not my fault, I don't control that sh. I can't make the plane fly faster, I can't control whether or not dispatch decides to delay or cancel your flight. Sh happens, the nicer you are, the more willing I am to try to help you
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    more. If you miss your flight, I don't have to rebook you on the next one. If your a and tell me that I "have to get you there today" I won't. If you're nice and understanding, I will try my best. tl;dr I control your fate whether you make it to your destination or not. Don't make me not want to help you.
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