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Shaoxter

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4,048 posts

123 months

Monday 13th October 2014
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Stand up as soon as the plane has landed and seatbelt light has been switched off?? Unless you sprint down the aisle as before other people have reacted, you're not getting off the plane any quicker.

Normally I sit in my seat smugly while everyone else frantically tries to take their baggage from the lockers and hit eat other in the face with their backpacks. But on my latest flight the guy sitting next to me was insistent on getting out (I was in an aisle seat) and then proceeded to clatter me from behind several times as we were shuffling out of the plane. He didn't even seem to be in a rush after he'd got off the plane.

Muzzer79

9,806 posts

186 months

Monday 13th October 2014
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1. I like to get my stuff out of the overhead locker before the idiot who brought the family-size suitcase on as hand luggage gets his out, tipping everything else out in the process.

2. By getting up straight away, when they do let people off, I am ready with everything in hand to leave, instead of faffing around trying to get sorted

3. First off the plane means first into Passport control means first out of the terminal and home. **


  • or first in the 1 hour queue to get into my own country. Yes Stansted Airport, I'm looking at you

madbadger

11,555 posts

243 months

Monday 13th October 2014
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Nerves? just want to get off the plane, although if they have got as far as taxiing to the terminal at the far end it is pretty much a certainity that you are going to survive the flight.

BrabusMog

20,083 posts

185 months

Monday 13th October 2014
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If like last night where I am travelling on a late flight, hand luggage only, with the last train of the night to catch it is because I need to get through passport control ASAP. I also don't want some idiot with a huge case knocking my stuff around when they try and drag their luggage out of the locker.

Why do people... stand fking next to each other on the moving walkways and then look annoyed when I (politely) ask to get by?

Gargamel

14,958 posts

260 months

Monday 13th October 2014
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I don't get it either.

It is quite common that every one is on their feet, including row 35 - who aren't going anyway for quite a few minutes, before the air bridge or steps have even arrived.

Where do they think they are going, will they get there any quicker ? - are they worried there won't be enough time to pick up a whole one bag before the plane leaves again ?

I have no idea.


A few weeks ago I was at Heathrow, and we were waiting for the shuttle bus to take us out to the plane. An orderly queue formed, and as the bus arrived some suited gentleman pushed into the queue near the top. Exclaiming, "sorry to barge in, but I am in a dreadful rush" The guy behind him said " Doesn't bother me pal, unless you have a parachute, we are all going to the same place at the same time"


fido

16,752 posts

254 months

Monday 13th October 2014
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Same as the people who rush for the train door way before it's time to get off. I just remained seated until everyone gets off them walk past them on the platform!

Shaoxter

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4,048 posts

123 months

Monday 13th October 2014
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Muzzer79 said:
1. I like to get my stuff out of the overhead locker before the idiot who brought the family-size suitcase on as hand luggage gets his out, tipping everything else out in the process.

2. By getting up straight away, when they do let people off, I am ready with everything in hand to leave, instead of faffing around trying to get sorted

3. First off the plane means first into Passport control means first out of the terminal and home. **


  • or first in the 1 hour queue to get into my own country. Yes Stansted Airport, I'm looking at you
I always pick an aisle seat and put my tablet away before the plane starts its descent. Phone/headphones etc. I can just carry on me so can always just get up, pick my bag from the overhead locker and walk off when the people in front have left.

On your third point, I couldn't believe my eyes when I landed at Heathrow T3 and there zero people in the queue at the passport gates!

Old Merc

3,486 posts

166 months

Monday 13th October 2014
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The same sort of people who are last on the plane,talking on their phone with an odd sized cabin bag,carrier bag with duty free,a huge overcoat.Then spend ages undressing and trying to cram it all into lockers.

benters

1,459 posts

133 months

Monday 13th October 2014
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Its high time they disembarked people in the same way they ask people to board a plane. no doubt safer and possibly faster. I expect there is a reason for it. . . Why people are in a hurry is beyond me given that the plane has be unloaded and typically most have baggage to reclaim too. Air travel does tend to show who is mild mannered and considerate and who isn't.

//j17

4,471 posts

222 months

Monday 13th October 2014
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benters said:
Its high time they disembarked people in the same way they ask people to board a plane...
Yea, but how often have you seen the boarding desk actually turn people back because their row hasn't been called yet? I've seen it once or twice but that's it.

I've never got the standing up thing either - but do enjoy just standing up and throwing myself in to the aisle when movement gets to my row, but then I'm a bit of a git who doesn't see why the fact you stood up 5 minutes before the doors opened should give you any form of priority.

BrabusMog

20,083 posts

185 months

Monday 13th October 2014
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//j17 said:
I've never got the standing up thing either - but do enjoy just standing up and throwing myself in to the aisle when movement gets to my row, but then I'm a bit of a git who doesn't see why the fact you stood up 5 minutes before the doors opened should give you any form of priority.
Really? Do you also just decide where you should join a queue, as people that have been standing in it for 5 minutes before being served don't have any form of priority?

toohuge

3,430 posts

215 months

Monday 13th October 2014
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I wish more people would prepare to disembark the aircraft ahead of their turn in the queue. Nothing more infuriating than having to wait for some cretin to dick about collecting the various magazines / water bottle / clothing items whilst others are trying to get off the plane.

Given you have spent the last 8/10 hours in the same seat, it's lovely to get off the other end - not to mention some people may actually be looking forward to their destinations, as opposed to spending the holiday sitting in a stty airline seat.

sc0tt

18,032 posts

200 months

Monday 13th October 2014
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I'm tall and I like to stand.

smile

juice

8,509 posts

281 months

Monday 13th October 2014
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The only time I've ever rushed to get off was arriving at BDA as a 'resident' but not Bermudian. The immigration queue for the expat line was generally only staffed with one person who would take their own sweet time. It could be up to an hour waiting at that queue at some points...so yeah I probably was one of those people referred to here !

Must admit it's got much better now but mid 2000's it was a nightmare getting through.

iva cosworth

44,044 posts

162 months

Monday 13th October 2014
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Same as on the car deck on a ferry.

"Do not start your engine till told to do so"

There's always one who starts up even before the boat has docked fully.

Passengers shouldn't be allowed down there so early.

GoneAnon

1,703 posts

151 months

Monday 13th October 2014
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My pet hate is the dipsts who crowd around the luggage belt so no-one car get near when the the luggage starts coming through. Why can't everyone just stand back, then when a bag appears the owner can get in, retrieve it and go away?

And on a cross-channel ferry, we laughed out loud when we saw an old guy had fitted his crooklock, even though he had cars parked 5 to each side and 50 in front and rear. Maybe he expected pirates?

Philplop

341 posts

173 months

Tuesday 14th October 2014
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I landed in Macau last week. The plane had literally just hit the runway and people were up getting their bags out. We were still belting along!
A stewardess shouted for them to sit down, which worked for a few seconds, until we had slowed down a bit, when pretty much every passenger sprinted for the front of the plane, barging into everybody on the way. It was mental. Never seen anything like it.

I really think they need to actually enforce the "remain seated til the seatbelt lights are off". There are always people standing up well before they're off.

Asterix

24,438 posts

227 months

Tuesday 14th October 2014
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I love it when they rush like mad to get off the plane, then are first on the bus, which means they're last off the bus at the terminal - Ha! wker!

thehammer

249 posts

133 months

Tuesday 14th October 2014
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madbadger said:
Nerves? just want to get off the plane, although if they have got as far as taxiing to the terminal at the far end it is pretty much a certainity that you are going to survive the flight.
My God man, have you never seen the film Speed?

SlackBladder

2,579 posts

202 months

Tuesday 14th October 2014
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BrabusMog said:
//j17 said:
I've never got the standing up thing either - but do enjoy just standing up and throwing myself in to the aisle when movement gets to my row, but then I'm a bit of a git who doesn't see why the fact you stood up 5 minutes before the doors opened should give you any form of priority.
Really? Do you also just decide where you should join a queue, as people that have been standing in it for 5 minutes before being served don't have any form of priority?
Surely the queue starts the minute you sit down, as in row 25 is in front of row 26 irrelevant of whether you're sitting or standing? Or do you suggest that as you stand up you walk to the back of the plane and then join the back of the queue?