Dubai to Manila 8hrs. Made the mistake of sitting in the row of seats directly in front of the restrooms. Literally throughout the entire ******* flight i had to put up the most ridiculous smells and hear the damn toilet whooshing. Never again. ----------------- Haymitch, on the preceding flight from the one I described above (Houston to Dubai 14hrs) I ended up talking to a stranger pretty much the entire time. Crazy part was, I never got their name!
The most miserable flight I've ever been on came right after Ike struck Houston. I went to Chicago with some friends for the weekend (none of us had power, and we decided it would be a good time to get the **** out of Dodge for a guy's weekend), and we were on an 8 AM flight back to Houston. We decided that instead of trying to wake up at 5 in order to get to the airport on time, it would be easier to just stay up and sleep on the plane. Bad idea. Of course we proceed to get completely ****housed at the bar to the point where we wouldn't stand up straight. After a LOT of vomiting and coffee, we finally get into a cab and head to the airport (completely miserable, and worn out). Now for the flight. I get stuck between an old man who's head keeps rolling onto my shoulder, and a seemingly harmless woman on the left of me. Now, I'm trying to get some shut eye when all of a sudden I hear SOBBING next to me. I look over, and the woman is crying. Naturally, I offer her a tissue and ask her if everything is ok since I feel bad for her. For the next 3 1/2 hours, she proceeds to tell me about how her husband has left her, her sister just kicked her out of the house for not helping with the rent, and how she's going to Houston for a fresh start. The entire time she's talking, the man next to me keeps falling asleep with his head on my shoulder, snoring, while I'm trying to fight off waves of nausea mixed with exhaustion and drunkenness. I can't be rude to her since she's obviously going through a tough time and needs someone to talk to, so I have to sit there and try and feign consciousness while she's going on and on about how she's a good person, and has never done wrong by anybody. While I've been on hundreds of flights that were longer in duration, that flight still feels like it's the longest I've ever been on.
Yes (regardless of the pilot's reassuring voice ). They claimed the backup system was working, yet they left the landing gear down the entire trip and used the hydraulics as little as possible (from what I could tell). They went so far as to foam the runway and we used every bit of it to stop.
Had a bad, very windy landing on a flight from Baltimore to Buffalo once. One of the few times I could literally say that you could absolutely feel the tension in a place. Another time, on a 4 1/2 hour flight from Punta Cana to Charlotte, I got stuck sitting behind a little fat 8 year old from Mississippi. He was extremely annoying and wouldn't stop talking and hitting my seat. The kid literally ate nonstop the entire flight. First, he had a tub of Chips Ahoy, then Skittles, then some cheesy peanut butter crackers. Then, I kid you not, when the flight attendant came back to ask what he wanted to drink, he literally said, "CAKE! I mean, Coke!" Had I had my drink already, I would have spit it on the kid from laughing. Not only was he eating the entire time, but he kept dropping his trash on the floor in front of me. Not as bad as others, but still annoying. I've been lucky on flights. Usually I sit next to my wife. She usually, unfortunately, gets stuck in the middle because she's so much smaller than me (she's short and thin, and I'm 6'3" 230ish).
Flight from Tokyo to Denver two years ago was my worst one ever. Had a window seat and the guy next to me (middle seat) was at least 280 lbs. Then behind me was a 10 year old boy who kicked my seat for a good 6 hours and throwing a tantrum about how he couldn't play video games. I guess I should be thankful that they person in front of me was okay. I could've had a trifecta of *****ty passengers on that flight.
