Why do many of us get so angry during airplane travel? What ticks you off the most?
For me, an obvious one is when someone tries to stuff so much in the overhead compartment above my seat that something ( of course almost always heavy) falls on my head.
Check out Stephanie Rosenbloom’s article about what helps create the increasing amount of blowups and other problems when we fly in what can turn out to be the not so friendly skies.
Ms. Rosenbloom lists a variety of conditions including environmental such as a packed plane and internal such as stress and fatigue. She also mentions ways to try to deal with a heated situation.
Click here to read this article..
Travel Gal Kim Swidler 
6 responses to “What Creates “Air Rage”?”
Your best bet to survive when flying these days is to just get as tanked as possible in the nearest airport bar and pass out the second you get into your seat. As a bonus, if the plane goes down, you won’t really notice.
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I think it’s the fear that flying is a completely unnatural activity and at any moment for a thousand different reasons you can fall thousands of feet to your death or the pressure can suddenly drop and your lungs burst and eyes pop out before the nerve impulse to scream hits your vocal cords.
Whether your seat is up or down has nothing to do with it.
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What creates it? They jam us in like sardines and have NO respect for the fact that many of us are larger or taller than average. Tall people don’t get paid more for being tall. Why should they have to pay more just to fly without dying in pain?
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After reading that article, it seems we’re lucky there aren’t more instances of air rage.
Personally, I don’t like being made to feel like cattle.
I agree with Hal. Alcohol makes me better able to deal with overcrowding.
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I’ve almost lost it a few times. 1) International flight, while people are trying to sleep, and someone is shuffling cards against the tray table? 2) Flight boarded and then we sat on the tarmac for TWO HOURS, when there was a KNOWN incoming flight delay? Why not just keep us in the terminal, with stores and many more available bathrooms? 3) A perpetually shrieking infant, wailed for 4.5 hours of the 6 hour flight. The 90 minute break was because it had exhasted itself out after the first three hours.
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I think it is the interaction between business or other frequesnt travellers who “know” the unwritten rules, and just want things to move effeciently and with little or no bother, and holiday travellers with a totally different expectation and percieved set of rules, and who are happy, and want to share that. Not to mention the shrinking personal space, the increase use of electronic devices of all types, the constant delays and changes and the feeling of paying significantly more for significantly less.
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