Worst flight experience for you

United, Philly to Rome. We boarded on time, only to hear the pilot announce that some AC system component needed immediate maintenance, so we would be sitting at the gate for “a little while”.....which turned into 2.5 hours. At the freaking gate, where we were literally feet from AC, restrooms. food, etc. We weren’t allowed off the plane, and all the flight attendants offered was water. The experience turned me into a compulsive snack packer: I won’t get on a plane without at least a liter of water arc a days worth of calories. I feel less claustrophobic and get less annoyed by delays if I at least know that I have some decent food/snacks and my own water.

Houston to Salt Lake City on Delta about 15 years ago. Landing gear wouldn’t fully deploy so we encircled the airport dumping fuel. Announcement came over the PA that the wheels had all come down and we were cleared to land. It was a pretty scary (and very long) 30 minutes.

We were still greeted by a caravan of fire trucks which was also scary.

Flying from Hawaii to Indianapolis, with a layover in Dallas.

Got to Dallas at around 8:30 AM, supposed to fly to Indy at 10:30 AM. The flight kept getting delayed, basically every hour or 2 it would get pushed back again. Fast forward to 9:30 PM, 6-7 delays and countless gate changes later. We say frick it, were starting to get worried it’s going to get cancelled and never fly out - we talked to some people who had been stranded in DFW for 48 hours. We rent a car and drive 12 hours through the night to Indy. It’s my dad and I, so just the two of us driving and switching shifts. Never been so tired in my life, and more than a few times I caught myself dozing off while driving and having to blare the music or get another coffee.

This was in December, and apparently one of the worst ice storms Dallas had ever experienced.

1965

Flying from tachakawa Japan to Da Nang, 20 minutes out right engine catches fire, begining of the worst 13 months of my life

Just out of pure boredom, a ~14-15hr flight from PEK to ORD - has to be the oldest/most raggedy plane in the United fleet. Had the single screen up front that they played some musical on over and over. I got stuck in a middle seat, due to a last minute change. My tablet wasn't charged and I can't sleep for shat on planes. I was so ready to get off of there.

Have been stuck on the tarmac for 3hrs before an 8+ Hour flight.

Air China flight where I seemed to be really hated by the flight attendant form HKG to PEK was also really odd.

Got delayed 12 hours leaving Grand Cayman once. Plane got damaged when it landed and they couldn’t fix it so they had to send another plane down to get us.

There ain’t shite to do in the Grand Cayman airport, and they never gave us a clear answer so we couldn’t leave.

Flying over the Rockies, in a thunderstorm, in a prop plane. Never again.

I have had many flights with bad turbulence, sitting next to screaming babies or super fat people with no space awareness, but this takes the cake...

About 3 months ago I was on a flight from ATL to MEM. (Thank God it was a short flight).

I am in Delta Comfort in the window seat. Two guys come behind me and sit in the middle and aisle seat WREAKING of booze. They are being loud and obnoxious.

Then the middle guy starts rubbing the thigh of the aisle seat guy. They can’t keep their hands off of one another and keep kissing each other.

I am sneaking pics and sending it to friends like “wtf have I stumbled into...”

We take off and everyone shuts their windows, so it gets dark. That’s when they get their jacket out to spread across the lap of the aisle guy and the middle guy starts giving him a handjob.

I felt trapped and violated. I went to take a video to prove to people what I saw, but now that the windows are all down and it’s dark in the plane, my flash comes on and they both realize that I am videoing one guy jacking another guy off.

SpyCam Accomplishment: FAILED

At one point, the (male) flight attendant came by and asked the middle guy to please get his hands out from under the aisle guys jacket because “someone might get the wrong idea”, but the FA knew exactly what was going on.

In the 1980s returning from Montreal to Houston. Pilot announces an emergency landing in NY. We landed on an isolated runway and all passengers had to deplane, stand on the tarmac and identify our luggage. There was a phoned in bomb threat. Security procedure logic at the time that was to search the plane and deal with any unclaimed bags might be dangerous. Since all bags were claimed, the bags and passengers reboarded and our flight continued. The possibility of a suicide bomber who would claim his luggage with a bomb wasn't even a distant thought.

never had a bad experience


knock on f'ing wood