Get. Off. The. Plane.
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When I travel solo, it's with one shoulder bag I usually just shove under my seat, don't even need the overhead. I'm instantly ready, but everyone is in my waaaay.
Same. But usually I opt to sit at the back. Sometimes I get a seat to myself and if not, one of the rows is reserved for medical and always free, so they let me have that. Then on landing, it's just a matter of laying back and catching up on my phone as the cattle crams itself into awful positions and just stands there staring at their comfy seats. But if the rear door is open, I'm straight off.
If you can't be first, you want to be last. This is the golden rule of embarking/disemmbarking an aircraft.
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I'm often the last to leave the plane. By the time I reach the passport control/baggage claim areas I'm barely having to wait. I've never really understood how other adults are always in such a damn rush.
If you don't have checked baggage on a domestic flight then being in the back of the plane just means you're waiting longer to get on with your day
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I'm often the last to leave the plane. By the time I reach the passport control/baggage claim areas I'm barely having to wait. I've never really understood how other adults are always in such a damn rush.
I hate the air on planes sitting on the ground. I always feel like I'm mildy suffocating.
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If you don't have checked baggage on a domestic flight then being in the back of the plane just means you're waiting longer to get on with your day
So? Decelerate your life a bit.
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I hate the air on planes sitting on the ground. I always feel like I'm mildy suffocating.
Rushing to get out past the people in rows between you and the exit makes the suffocation last longer for everyone, though.
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I used to fly for work a LOT. At one point it was 2x a week for a year.
I have never once had my bags make it to baggage claim before me, even being the last person off the plane.
Try İstanbul airports - especially Sabiha GƶkƧen. They are really fast.
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If it was 200 clones of me, we would have gotten off the plane before it even finishes taxiing to the gate. We woulda kicked the emergency doors off and inflated those big slides to ride down the moment the tires touch the ground.
"You can't catch us all!"
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I used to fly for work a LOT. At one point it was 2x a week for a year.
I have never once had my bags make it to baggage claim before me, even being the last person off the plane.
You couldn't get away with just doing a carry on? It would have to be a 2+ week trip for me going through the hell of checking a bag.
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So? Decelerate your life a bit.
This sounds like you've never missed a connecting flight. There are plenty of reasons people want to get off the plane.
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Literally the fundamental attribution fallacy
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This sounds like you've never missed a connecting flight. There are plenty of reasons people want to get off the plane.
If your connection is that tight then it's que sera sera and you knew that when you booked. People are not out there conspiring to be slow to make you late. Grow up.
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Literally me 6 hours ago
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You aren't in traffic. You are traffic.
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I'm often the last to leave the plane. By the time I reach the passport control/baggage claim areas I'm barely having to wait. I've never really understood how other adults are always in such a damn rush.
I'm like you. People look at me weird while I just sit there letting everyone get off. There's usually a couple of people who try to be polite and gesture that I can get in line behind them. I thank them, and say no. When the aisle clears, I get up and walk off, skipping the bullshit jostling and shuffling of the impatient cattle.
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I'm often the last to leave the plane. By the time I reach the passport control/baggage claim areas I'm barely having to wait. I've never really understood how other adults are always in such a damn rush.
wrote last edited by [email protected]During one flight, I really had to deposit a shit while the aircraft was making it's way to the gate. The worst part, the terminal in Frankfurt am Main was under construction and most of the WC's were closed!
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If your connection is that tight then it's que sera sera and you knew that when you booked. People are not out there conspiring to be slow to make you late. Grow up.
I've had an 8 hour layover dropped to 45 minutes before. You genuinely don't know the length of your layover until your first plane lands regardless of what you booked.
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My legs are long af, and Iām cramped in that tiny fucking seat. Also, I probably have to pee.
A wee bit of claustrophobia doesnāt help either. Iāll happily jump out of the plane anytime but sitting in a small metal tube for hours is not fun.
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I'm often the last to leave the plane. By the time I reach the passport control/baggage claim areas I'm barely having to wait. I've never really understood how other adults are always in such a damn rush.
Could be some folks might have to catch a second plane and the timing is really close. Unfamiliar airport layout sometimes puts your connecting flight on the opposite side of the airport and it departs in 10 mins. I would be in a hurry to get off and reach my connecting flight in time.
This is just one scenario. Each person is different. Some people have travel anxiety etc.
Pretty easy to understand once you open up to the idea that you donāt know each personās day, schedule or disorder
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I'm often the last to leave the plane. By the time I reach the passport control/baggage claim areas I'm barely having to wait. I've never really understood how other adults are always in such a damn rush.
Found the problem, this guy right here.
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Donāt do that. Donāt be the dickhead who stands and blocks everyone. Youāre not going to move faster, but you will inconvenience everyone around you. This is stupid. Just be a normal human and wait your turn patiently so others can get their things. The door out is people-sized, and youāll not extrude others by a few seconds, so sit the fuck down. Itās not about you. It looks like OP is one of these dickheads, standing in the aisle and blaming others for the congestion.
Itās not about moving off faster than everyone else, because thatās not how this works. Just fucking sit and wait like an adult. Itās not āget off the planeā, because you canāt. Itās āsit the fuck downā and stop making it about you.
e: look at all those people seated in the forward rows, and OP standing in the aisle bunched against the first man in frame. All those seated people will have to wait to access their overheads until OP barges by, but itās the others standing ahead of OP in the aisle who are the problem.
I am insanely confused by this comment. So it slows down deboarding for some people to be already standing with their things ready to move forward, and speeds things up for literally everyone to first have to stand and then get their things? Seems like a fraction of the plane being ready when the doors open would inevitably speed things up a little. Sidenote: the real dickheads imo are the ones who get up and then move up to the front of the plane. They are effectively skipping line to get off and it's such a dick move. I want to strangle people who do that.
But back to the post, what OP and I seem to notice is just how damned slow people are. If I have a window seat and a bag overhead, it still probably takes me under 15 seconds to go from seated to having my bag and moving. I watch people toward the front take FOREVER to do the same thing. Then they have a bunch of kids and that magnifies the issue even more.
