Flying The UNfriendly Skies

[dgridley]

Seems flying is becoming more of a chore and annoyance these days:

One passenger on a Delta flight from Los Angeles to Salt Lake City was arrested for leaving his seat to go to the lavatory less than 30 minutes before landing (due to the incident, air marshals ordered all passengers to put their hands on their heads for the rest of the flight). And an Orthodox Jewish man was kicked off an Air Canada flight for praying, which attendants claim was making other passengers nervous.

Other passengers have been taken off flights for making jokes, such as asking attendants if they had "checked the crew for sobriety" and "where do you keep the bomb?" Some have been booted for taking onboard hand cream, matches and bottles of water, and for sniffing something in a bag.

http://abcnews.go.com/Travel/Story?id=3143566&page=2

Just craziness.. makes me not even want to fly anymore.

 

[commes]

"And there doesn't seem to be an age limit for the violators. In 2005, a United Airlines flight out of Chicago was delayed because a small boy said something inappropriate. "

A flight was delayed because a little kid said something inappropiate? Like really, get real people, this is bogus, things shouldn't be stopped due to things like this, to me this is a bunch of horse sh*t. After reading this article I don't want to go on a flight anymore, as if i bump into the flight attendant it seems, that I'll get arrested for it, and it will be called something else thats irrelevant basically lol.

 

[franchise]

i actually fly several times a month and I NEVER have any issues or am on flights with people that have problems.

When you put this into perspective...meaning that there are thousands of flights that travel without incident every day...these stories make for good news.

Honestly...flying is not that complicated or cumbersome.

Just my 2¢