Tagged: behaviour

Inconsiderate Passenger and Seat Jerking

On my last flight SIN-ADL—a flight of about 6 hours and 30 minutes give or take 5-10 minutes—I had to endure an annoying restless person sitting behind me who kept poking, touching and banging into the back of my seat. She did this all the way through the first 3 hours of the flight when the lights were dimmed, the time best suited to rest. The flight left Singapore on time at 23:40. All the backwards and forwards motion of the headrest gave me a headache. I told her to stop moving around and hitting the chair. She seemed to have understood me and shortly afterwards just before the lights came on she was asleep. The nerve and so irritating. Some people have no...

Hotel Etiquette

When staying at someone else’s house, perhaps a relative’s or friend’s place, do you respect the house rules? Do you behave accordingly? As a guest you will follow a few rules. Some are written, others are just commonsense but they are all rules a person with some decency would respect. These are the same kind of rules you would expect at home, so why can’t staying in hotels be the same for a few?

Air Travel Etiquette: Some Basic Rules

To me etiquette, in the context of air travel, starts way before getting on board the plane. It starts as soon as you enter the airport terminal. Good etiquette alleviates frustration, anger and conflict. Issues that have become more common with air travel. What is etiquette? Etiquette is basically a code of conduct, an unwritten set of rules that govern behaviour and social interactions. Principles such as: respect, kindness and consideration, or the proper and polite way to behave are the mainstay of etiquette, but also decorum, manners and attitude play their part. Applying etiquette to air travel I suppose like in any situation where one has to interact with others in a comunal setting certain rules need to apply. So before stepping into...