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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.
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 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. **
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.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
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!
OscarIndia said:
I get up as soon as the seat bely light is off. I am 6 foot 4 and have really long legs, legroom on the flights I take is terrible, so it is just for relief and to stretch my legs out.
What about the people who stand up in seats A and H even though they have no headroom and can't even get their bags?tvrolet said:
Ohhh...touched a nerve there. 
If they're in an aisle seat, it's because they're not selfish twunts and they're allowing the middle and window seat passengers to get their coats, jackets and other items down from the lockers ready to get off, so they in turn don't block fellow passengers when the end of the 'queue' to get off reaches them. So while it makes no difference to the selfish smug git in the aisle seat whether they sit or get into the aisle, once they've got up and swanned off the folks in the window and aisle seats are then left struggling to either get their own stuff down and coats on in the now-moving aisle, blocking everyone else...or they're blocked in their row. So yes, it makes no different to the selfish traveller in the aisle seat, it sure as hell slows down everyone else.
Have a look at folks getting off a plane - it isn't a steady stream of passengers, it runs in fits and starts with a block of say 20 passengers then a gap. Then another group. Then another gap and so on. Look at the gaps and it's window/middle passengers trying to get their coats on/bags down having been blocked by a selfish aisle passenger. Get rid of the gaps and you speed up deplaning significantly.
Ok, but why do you have to stand up and get your baggage as soon as the plane docks? The result would be the same if everyone waited for another 5 mins for the doors to actually open. If they're in an aisle seat, it's because they're not selfish twunts and they're allowing the middle and window seat passengers to get their coats, jackets and other items down from the lockers ready to get off, so they in turn don't block fellow passengers when the end of the 'queue' to get off reaches them. So while it makes no difference to the selfish smug git in the aisle seat whether they sit or get into the aisle, once they've got up and swanned off the folks in the window and aisle seats are then left struggling to either get their own stuff down and coats on in the now-moving aisle, blocking everyone else...or they're blocked in their row. So yes, it makes no different to the selfish traveller in the aisle seat, it sure as hell slows down everyone else.Have a look at folks getting off a plane - it isn't a steady stream of passengers, it runs in fits and starts with a block of say 20 passengers then a gap. Then another group. Then another gap and so on. Look at the gaps and it's window/middle passengers trying to get their coats on/bags down having been blocked by a selfish aisle passenger. Get rid of the gaps and you speed up deplaning significantly.
Also, stop carrying so much crap to put in the overhead lockers!!
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