disgruntled passengers on airline tv show...

[joko]

why do so many people turn up late, or forget their passport or smuggle a cat or have too much luggage or whatever stupid self inflicted problem, they see go mad blaming easyjet and expecting them to deal with it, and even break the law to help them!

i assume its lragely because they see the camera and want to put on a show...but in the main, rather than convicing the viewers that easyjet are rubbish they just make themselves look like idiots!

their stupidity just shines through...so why do they do it? it baffles me

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[delboy3]

It's all part of the "everyone else is to blame but me" culture, prevalent today.

[I.Don No]

everything that goes wrong is always someone else's fault isn't it?

[bobjugs12]

IMHO it's because Sleazyjet attract the sort of idiots who can't read a 24hr clock, get confused as to when 16 O'Clock is, and turn up late.
If they made a show about RyanAir, then they'd spend half the time having to edit out the images of people flinging excrement at each other (and thats just the staff)!!


PS I'm SleazyJet or CryingAir's biggest fan, honestly ;-)

[chrissa1]

I keep yelling at the screen, "it's not a train"!!!!!! You can't just hop on a plane. Weight figures and security have to be done etc.

[joko]

yeh they think the pilot just says 'all aboard', shuts the door and off he goes...

and they ALWAYS have some terribly important reason why they HAVE to get on THAT plane....soooo important they didnt check the time of the flight, the day, they have their passport, that life snakes/cats/bird etc are allowed on as hand luggage etc etc

and then when they are presented with some health and safety rule or legality they expect the staff to just ignore it

they must know surely they are out of order?? they cant really think that they are innocent...its so weird

[ummmm]

I think it's just a reaction.

[chrissa1]

I know. Sometimes it's not their fault like when there is a bad crash on the motorway, but it's not Easyjet's fault either. If I had made my flight I'd take a pretty dim view if the airline held me up to cater for these people. Madness joko. Quite enjoyable to watch these mad people though.
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[joeluke]

I blame Lucas and Walliams

[Prudie]

I'm a massive fan of these programmes and watch them over and over (!). I thinks it's about 50-50 tbh, the passengers who arrive late etc and kick-off generally deserve all they get but easyjet is also very unhelpful at times. Especially Leo, he can be really inconsistent!

[chrissa1]

Aw, I like Leo!!

[boxtops]

I don't understand it either. We flew from Stansted to Prestwick a couple of years ago and we missed check-in by 10 minutes - maddening as we could still see the plane not yet started loading. But it was our fault, we were late, we just accepted that we had to go on the next one. It would be complete chaos if everyone who threw a strop got on their flight.

[society]

I believe people are aware of the rules, they are just trying to see if they'd get away with breaking the rules.

[Andyvon]

My father was in the airlines all his working life and I asked him this question. He said it's nothing new, people have always done stupid things or found something to complain about. However, he did say it was very rare and 99.9% of passengers are sensible and cause no problem. That's the case with the TV programme 'Airline'. They only show the occasional kerfuffle and ignore the 100 flights that boarded peacefully. I've flown with easyJet quite a few times and never seen any problems.

[mike11111]

Precisely. It wouldn't make good telly otherwise. Although not wildly amusing, I rather like the Walliams/Lucas take-off of Airline, especially the coffee lady who ain't gonna sell any coffee, no way, no how!

[slinkycat]

Watched the first one mike and felt a bit let down, was expecting more from Lucas and Walliams, was the second one any better?

[mike11111]

Not really, very repetitive, I felt the same.

[slinkycat]

Maybe it takes a few episodes to get into it, didn't like Little Britain to start with, now I think its genius, apart from some bits that make me really cringe!

[andy-hughes]

Airline passengers who make a fuss good enough to make good tv exhibit a standard human trend -

if I argue with you long enough, your 'No' will turn into a 'Yes' - even though that is never going to happen.

I call it 'the Pink Floyd' syndrome - based on an experience I had over thirty years ago when I was weekend relief in my local record shop. The exchange was between myself (A) and a middle-aged lady (L) -

L - have you got the new Pink Floyd album?
A - No it's not released until next Wednesday.
L - So you haven't got it then?
A - No it will be in on Wednesday, I can save one for you if you wish?
L - Will the other shop in the town have it?
A - No, no-one has got it untiil Wednesday, then every shop will have it. It's not out until Wednesday, so every shop in the country will get copies on Wednesday.
L - Will Woolworths have it?
A - No, no-one will have it until Wednesday, it's not actually available until Wednesday, we will have it then, i can save you one if you wish?
L - It's not for me ...
A - Well why didn't you say so! I'm not selling one to you, you don't deserve it, but if it's for someone else, I have a box of twentry under the counter, i was just waiting for you to say the password, which is "It's not for me." hang on, I'll put one in a bag ...

As you might guess, the last bit took place in my mind. Reality dicated another ten minutes of going round the houses before the lady went off to ask Woolworths. I nearly rang to warn them she was on her way!!!!