While cheap airplane tickets, discount hotel rooms, and cheap vacation packages induce many people to travel, certain types of passengers should be avoided whenever possible. Passengers who wear too strong perfume, drink too much, or intrude into your limited personal space can turn what you hoped would be an agreeable flight into purgatory.
The following are types of people that Smarter Travel recommends you avoid on planes as well as ways to cope with disagreeable in-flight situations:
Space invaders often have elbows that stray across into fellow passengers space as well as wandering feet, expansive hair extensions, and sleeping heads that encroach on others. The best response is to be direct and firmly request that your offending seatmate remove whatever is invading your seat space.
Contagion passengers are ones that are constantly coughing and/or blowing their noses. Your only compassionate response is to discreetly ask to move your seat if the plane is not full. If this is not possible, keep well hydrated, your hands clean, and avoid touching your face.
Seatmates are sometimes smelly because different cultures have different standards of taste and hygiene. Stinky food, cigarette odor, excessive perfume, unwashed armpits, and uncontrollable releases of gas are the most common offending sources of unpleasant odor. Your best response is to turn your planes overhead air spout in the direction of the smell to move it away. If that does not do the trick, then consider dabbing some Vicks VapoRub under your nose since it usually overpowers other odors.
Passengers who drink alcohol to excess tend to smell heavily of liquor and often are quite loud. If your seatmate is obnoxious or belligerent, you should notify the flight attendant immediately.
Poorly controlled or smelly children can make a flight miserable. If you are seated in a row with only part of a family, offer to trade your seat so that they can be together. Remember to bring noise-canceling headphones which become invaluable when faced with noisy children that you cannot get away from.
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