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We came crossed 2 Reddit threads that asked formation attendants to stock their wildest stories from work. We decided to besides ask formation attendants of the BuzzFeed Community (and different hose employees) to archer america their strangest oregon astir frustrating days connected the job. Here are the stories we gathered:
1. "My sister, who worked for an airline, said that successful 2021, aft COVID lockdowns, a rider wore a 'Trump 2020' thong arsenic a disguise and refused to instrumentality it off. He screamed astatine passengers astir the election, and she bounced him off."
2. "I'm an RN who utilized to enactment for a determination airline. A pistillate traveling with her 3-year-old lad allowed him to alert with his iPad connected with the measurement loud. Other passengers were complaining, and I asked that she either supply her lad with earphones oregon crook the measurement off. She told maine that her lad would not 'listen to her' and asked maine to talk with him directly. She seemed acrophobic of him, her ain son. As a genitor of 2 boys (now adults) myself, I identified myself to him, past explained the aforesaid happening to him. After I spoke with him, helium slapped maine successful the look truthful hard that it near a handprint connected my look for hours afterward. I was stunned! After conferring with my peers moving the flight, I brought a standardized signifier which explained that she could beryllium met connected the crushed by constabulary and arrested for battle connected a formation unit member."
"She told maine I indispensable not beryllium a parent since I did not recognize children good and was a cruel person. I told her that my sons were big men successful their 30s and they would ne'er person slapped their parent oregon immoderate different idiosyncratic successful the look similar her lad did to me. I said that she needed to power her son's behaviour arsenic she was the mother.
Soon after, the kid fell dormant and slept done the remainder of the flight. When I came by aboriginal to connection her refreshment, I asked however helium had happened to autumn asleep, and she told maine that she had fixed her lad Benadryl due to the fact that she could not power his behaviour immoderate different way.
Working arsenic a formation attendant for a determination hose paid adjacent to nothing, astir $9,000 a year. I qualified for nutrient stamps and learned the crushed wherefore formation attendants clump unneurotic successful clang pad apartments. They can't spend overmuch amended than that. Due to the debased pay, I returned to my full-time nursing career."
—Anonymous
3. "A formation attendant tried to movie contented for her OnlyFans onboard portion connected duty. She nary longer works arsenic a formation attendant."
4. "I enactment successful an operations power center, and 1 of the departments deals with unit scheduling. It's fundamentally the telephone halfway for pilots and formation attendants. One formation attendant called, and we each enactment it connected talker and gathered around. This feline got connected the aircraft, and instantly aft the craft was done gaining altitude, helium got up, went to the restroom, grabbed 2 fistfuls of his feces, and chucked them consecutive down the aisle. No emotion. No confrontation. He wasn't yapping his caput disconnected and mouthing off. He conscionable did it unprovoked."
5. "I worked a formation from New York to Toronto once, and we had a feline acceptable disconnected the fume detector successful the guardant lavatory. My mentation was helium was mid-piss, and helium blew vape fume into the fume alarm. The dependable must've startled him due to the fact that helium pissed connected himself, the toilet, the mirror, and virtually each spot successful that bathroom. He tried to archer america helium ate immoderate spicy Indian food, and the vigor from the spice acceptable disconnected the alarm."
6. "So my woman is simply a passenger-service cause — deliberation boarding and check-in. There was erstwhile a formation from Egypt to Vienna. The formation was a charter filled with an older circuit group. They seemingly had a past luncheon backmost successful Cairo. Everyone ate the aforesaid lunch. The telephone from the aviator to crushed ops was, 'We REALLY request much blankets! Right to the gate, please!' More than fractional of that tourer radical shat themselves. There were 4 toilets for astir 150 passengers. That level went consecutive to deep-clean aft that."
7. "I worked arsenic a gross cause and was astir to adjacent retired the formation erstwhile I was radioed that I had a 'runner.' With conscionable minutes to spare, I met the antheral astatine the gross door, and arsenic we walked rapidly down the pitchy bridge, I informed him helium would request to instrumentality the archetypal disposable seat. This is erstwhile helium insisted that I springiness him spot 17D, arsenic helium had been successful a clang and survived, and present ever sat successful 17D. I explained that helium was late, the spot had been taken, and we had conscionable minutes to adjacent the door, truthful helium should delight instrumentality the archetypal disposable seat. He was adamant connected 17D."
"Stepping onboard, I rapidly checked my rider manifest, and it appeared that the antheral sitting successful 17D was traveling alone. As we arrived astatine enactment 17, I verified with the seated rider that helium was traveling alone, explained the situation, and asked him if helium would caput precise overmuch if I upgraded him to archetypal class. Of course, helium instantly stood up with the biggest grin and, grabbing his container from the overhead, said, 'Yes ma’am, blessed to help!' My precocious rider said successful a large voice, 'You didn't connection maine that!' I said, 'No, but I did get you the spot you insisted on, and this bully man was besides consenting to accommodate you. Please bask your flight.' Soooooo satisfying!"
—Anonymous
8. "One time, a rider asked for a blistery towel and past utilized it to cleanable their feet."
9. "I've agelong since retired, truthful this incidental happened *many* years ago. In my experience, astir passengers were perfectly fine. Typically, those wearing suits were the BEST. Business flyers cognize the rules and regular well. They're usually the past radical to origin immoderate issues. But NOT this guy. I was moving archetypal class, headed from Houston to LAX. A antheral successful a concern suit came onboard. He lone stood retired owed to being a spot large and overly gregarious. No large deal. Sometimes, tense flyers behave that way. We understand. During the flight, Mr. Suit had 3 *strong* drinks portion loudly talking to his progressively annoyed seatmate. That mediocre feline was seemingly a alien to Mr. Suit. He yet moved a mates of rows up to the lone unfastened seat. He enjoyed the remainder of the formation adjacent to different rider who was heavy into a bully read."
"Upon landing, Mr. Suit rang his telephone button, past demanded a vessel of vino to instrumentality disconnected the plane. I informed him that providing specified a 'gift' would interruption national laws, and truthful we had to politely diminution his request. He past busted retired the clichéd, 'DO you cognize WHO I AM?!' I replied that helium appeared to beryllium 'someone who *may* beryllium met by information astatine the gate' if helium continued his existent behavior. He demanded my past sanction and badge fig and said each he'd request was my archetypal sanction and the formation fig to record his ceremonial complaint.
I retook my jumpseat arsenic we finished our travel to the gate. Mr. Suit scowled astatine maine arsenic helium exited, placing his look 2 inches from excavation successful a last bullying gesture. Then, helium stumbled onto the jetway, powerfully smelling of alcohol. His erstwhile seatmate had conscionable handed maine his concern paper and a enactment he'd rapidly written to picture the incidental successful lawsuit I needed backup.
We unit members looked up Mr. Suit's sanction connected the formation manifest, but nary of america recognized him arsenic anyone celebrated (not that it would person mattered). This was earlier the internet, truthful I ne'er learned wherefore helium thought helium was truthful precise important that immoderate formation attendant would hazard their vocation for him. I made definite to pass my supervisor conscionable successful lawsuit helium filed a ailment erstwhile helium sobered up. The supervisor conscionable chuckled and rolled his eyes."
—Anonymous
10. "I enactment aerial postulation control. During the highest of COVID-19, I worked a southbound formation from Toronto to Jamaica. I enactment implicit Maryland, truthful astir astatine the halfway point. About 40 minutes later, I saw the nonstop aforesaid formation number, and it was headed backmost to Toronto. Obviously, I called the feline moving the level and asked what was up with it. He said that portion it was implicit North Carolina, a rider successful his precocious teens/early 20s stood up successful his spot and yelled, 'I person Covid!' to the full plane. Since it was highest COVID, the US was like, 'Well, you're not landing here!' So each these radical who were astir apt conscionable trying to spell connected a bully abrogation successful the prima had to beryllium connected a level for 5 hours conscionable to extremity up backmost wherever they started. I was told the feline was arrested erstwhile they landed backmost successful Toronto, and I ideate helium can't alert anymore. He claimed it was conscionable a gag from the beginning, but either way, I felt truthful atrocious for those passengers."
11. "Ex-cabin unit here. Years ago, I made a travel to Bangkok with 4 formation unit members, and coincidentally, 2 of the archetypal officers were hubby and wife. After a boozy nighttime retired with the crew, the hubby and woman had a threesome with 1 of the compartment crew. I didn't find retired connected the trip; I recovered retired a fewer weeks aboriginal arsenic I flew with the aforesaid miss to Atlanta, who told maine the story. She really recovered retired she was large connected the Atlanta trip."
12. "I was lasting successful enactment to cheque in, and the rider successful beforehand of maine decided helium wanted his checked container backmost truthful helium could get thing retired of it. They had already enactment it connected the conveyor loop to spell done information and subsequently the airplane. As they were trying to explicate to him that it was excessively late, since the container had already descended into the airport, the rider became truthful huffy that helium jumped onto the conveyor loop and ran towards the entrance, wherever his container had disappeared. All astatine once, everything fell into chaos. The agents were shouting, trying to drawback him, erstwhile information came moving over, and the conveyor loop was unopen down. The feline was tackled by information and arrested."
13. "We had a fewer passengers basal and effort to locomotion the aisle portion the level was approaching the runway for landing. I was seated facing guardant and saw this happening, truthful I told them to beryllium down. They tried arguing successful a connection I didn't understand, but I insisted that they stay seated for their safety, and they yet did, conscionable successful clip for the level to land. All was good until I went down to the compartment aft the past rider near to expanse it. In each its disgusting glory, an full spray of liquid, wet, dripping poop was plastered connected the model and each implicit the sides of the compartment wherever the passengers who were trying to basal during landing had been seated. The smell. My goodness."
14. "I had a relative who utilized to beryllium a formation attendant. On a formation to (or from) India, she recovered that idiosyncratic had shat successful the descend of 1 of the lavatories. Disgusted, she rapidly locked it and enactment an out-of-service sign. The champion portion of the communicative was that she described the crap arsenic having MULTIPLE COLORS, implying that much than 1 idiosyncratic shat successful the sink. She besides heard the clean-up unit swearing erstwhile they went to cleanable that cubicle aft deplaning everyone."
15. "On 1 of my archetypal flights, I had a dada spell bare his kid's potty grooming toilet. We told him helium could NOT person his kid usage the bath astatine their seats. An hr later, the ma came backmost again with the grooming toilet. We asked her what she was doing and reminded her we told them they couldn't bash that. And her effect was, 'Oh, we thought you conscionable meant for pooping.' I was shocked. Then they proceeded to carabineer the potty to their backpack and were conscionable walking with it retired successful the unfastened successful public."
16. "My mate's woman is an attendant for a ample bearer and tells america the clip astir each the unit got PTSD due to the fact that fractional the level shat each implicit the place. The in-flight repast they served connected a 19-hour formation gave everyone gastro/food poisoning truthful terrible that it took little than 25 minutes for the archetypal idiosyncratic to tally to the toilet successful abject horror. It was similar that country from Bridesmaids connected a plane. About fractional of this monolithic airliner had eaten the atrocious food, truthful implicit 60 radical were battling for nether six toilets. It ended truthful severely that the bearer had to crushed the level and bash a heavy clean. They were halfway crossed the water and couldn't adjacent crook back. It was everyplace — the seats, the floors, wrong carry-on bags, conscionable everywhere."
17. "I had a feline vomiting humor similar determination was nary tomorrow. We were successful the mediate of the Atlantic, truthful determination was nary mode to spell back, conscionable forward. We tried to assistance him arsenic overmuch arsenic imaginable and asked for doctors, but nary were connected board. Oxygen was provided, which was not precisely necessary, but it helped calm him down. Eventually, aft a while, helium stopped. His enactment looked similar a freakin' fearfulness movie. He refused ambulance oregon immoderate benignant of aesculapian assistance upon arrival."
18. "I utilized to beryllium a rider formation dispatcher; earlier that, I was a gross agent. My favourite frustrating idiosyncratic I dealt with arsenic a dispatcher was a man whose spouse was large implicit 32 weeks, and they had a poorly printed papers that wasn't dated by the doc who signed it. Upon denying them boarding owed to such, they had a spell astatine me. My favourite punctuation from the man was, 'You're conscionable a horrible, antagonistic idiosyncratic who sees each these bully things successful the satellite and makes them negative.' Kinda wild."
—Anonymous
19. "I utilized to beryllium a formation attendant for a determination airline, and sometimes we'd get a level afloat of rowdy fishermen caller disconnected the vessel but with a fewer drinks successful them. One time, portion doing my information demo, they started singing that Nelly opus to me: 'It's getting blistery successful here, truthful instrumentality disconnected each your clothes.' It was funny."
20. "I'm a pilot, but this wasn't me/my flight. It was a determination airplane, a 50-seater, with a bath successful the backmost of the jet. A 6-year-old kid got stuck successful the lavatory during the descent. The formation attendant informed the aviator and tried to unfastened the doorway but couldn't. Passengers adjacent tried to assist, but nary 1 could unfastened the door. The aviator decides to onshore with the 6-year-old kid inactive successful the lavatory and the formation attendant seated successful the past enactment of the airplane adjacent to the lavatory. They got to the gate, and a unit got connected to region the door. The aviator and formation attendant decidedly got a large talking-to from the CPO."
21. "I was connected a formation wherever idiosyncratic died. About 8 rows up and crossed the aisle, the pistillate sitting successful the model spot was looking crossed the bare mediate spot astatine the feline sitting successful the aisle seat. She low-key freaked retired and started yelling a bit. Flight attendants came, grabbed a blanket, and enactment it implicit the guy's caput (which was astatine a peculiar angle). I hide what they said successful the announcement, but for once, NOBODY got up erstwhile we landed. Police and EMTs walked successful the plane, picked up the body, enactment it connected 1 of those ace constrictive aisle wheelchairs, and took him disconnected of the plane."
22. "If you privation the existent stories, inquire the gross agents! One time, I was moving a formation and was missing 2 guests. I paged them by sanction aggregate times, held the doors until the past imaginable moment, and closed the formation precisely erstwhile I had to. One infinitesimal later, those nonstop 2 guests came running, claiming we ne'er paged them and they had been astatine the gross the full clip (except, arsenic per above, I saw them moving to the gross aft it was closed). As I calmly explained I could not reopen the formation for them, the woman started swearing astatine maine and said, 'Are you f*cking kidding me? This is outrageous!' Then her hubby proceeded to THROW HIS BACKPACK AT MY HEAD!! I person bully reflexes and dodged retired of the way, but I cognize plentifulness of radical who would've been deed successful the head."
"I was acold excessively bully to them and gave them the enactment betwixt being enactment connected different formation oregon calling the police. I'm overmuch harsher with convulsive guests present and wouldn't hesitate to telephone the constabulary connected them."
23. "I had a cranky feline connected a packed formation erstwhile who REFUSED to stow his container nether the spot successful beforehand of him (it fit, with abstraction near for his feet). He insisted that it was good sitting connected his thigh for take-off. It was not. We'd already started to taxi towards the runway (with 3 planes up of america successful enactment for take-off). As the bin supra him was full, I offered to stow his bag. I promised to instrumentality it to him arsenic soon arsenic the seatbelt motion was turned disconnected erstwhile we were airborne. But helium inactive refused. I past pointed retired ALL the radical astir him who were successful information of MISSING their connecting flights if helium refused to comply with FAA requirements, and we had to instrumentality to the gate. That was each it took. Soon, the different passengers shouted astatine him to comply with national information requirements. When we went to onshore a fewer hours later, helium was excessively sheepish to enactment up a fuss astir stowing his container properly. Thank you, bully people. You marque our jobs a spot easier."
—Anonymous
24. And: "I worked arsenic a ticket/gate cause for 32 years, and adjacent the formation attendants admit that the passengers are worse towards us! Here's my story: One aboriginal morning, we opened our check-in antagonistic to a enactment of astir 15 people. A rider astir ninth from the beforehand was already freaking out, truthful the others fto america instrumentality him first. He was checking successful an 11-year-old lad to alert unsocial arsenic an unaccompanied minor. All was spiffy until we told him helium had to hold with the lad until the level was airborne. This 60-year-old antheral had a implicit meltdown, humiliating his grandson and screaming that it was impossible. He was rushing to different flight, truthful wherefore couldn't the unit look aft him?"
"I told him that it was against our policy. It had to beryllium a household member, and helium refused to cheque the kid successful until helium could enactment oregon find idiosyncratic else. So, the gramps of the twelvemonth leaves the 11-year-old lad by himself successful the java shop, calls the kid's aunt, and runs to drawback his plane. We didn't cognize this until the kid returned an hr aboriginal to inquire if his aunt checked successful with us. After that, 1 of our crushed unit hung retired with the kid until she arrived. But I volition ne'er not beryllium furious astatine that antheral for embarrassing a kid past stranding him. The kid's astir apt adjacent to 30 now, and I wonderment if helium inactive adjacent speaks to that man."
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