The air travel will make the best intentions become friction. At a cabin constructed to please rather than to excite, helpful is frequently anticipated: letting service run, keeping the passage ways open, and leaving safety judgments to the individuals who have been trained to make them.
Flight attendants do not need to be informed of the difference. The smoothing flights are often caused by those passengers who do less performing and more cooperating. They are the politeness-coded practices which are apt to turn against themselves and what will work better at the same instance.
1. Being the rule enforcer among the other passengers
Helping an unknown, reprimanding him about his seat belt, mask, or overall adherence may create a conflict that spreads more quickly than the issue itself. Cabin crews are trained to deal with sensitive conditions, and including aggressive behavior; passengers are not. The safest action that may be taken when it feels unsafe is taking a very subtle step which is to notify a flight attendant and leave it to the crew to make decisions on how to deal with it including how to de-escalate.
2. Switching the overhead bin around such as it is shared puzzle time
Shifting bags of other people to make space may cause confusion, accusation and even delays particularly when the person who has moved the bag may fail to locate where that bag was moved to. The less sound etiquette is fast packing and getting off the aisle. To determine the correct orientation of a bag, it is better to consult the instructions on how it should be positioned than to experiment, and the aircraft can be varied, and some crews suggest that it should be put wheels-first and vertically when the space permits.
3. Stopping the aisle to rearrange bags
Boarding fails as the aisle is a staging area. Unzipping or repacking and fishing of headphones at the expense of others waiting behind are a chain effect that is felt at the jet bridge. The easiest gracious is to come to the seat with it all prepared: one has the essentials ready, the bigger things closed away, and any finishing touches to put on when one is seated.
4. Touching a crew member to get attention
It may feel more gentle than shouting, but being tapped on the arm does not go well with most of the crew members as they do not like going through touching. An easy statement such as excuse me, brief eye contact, or the call button sends the same message without breaching physical borders. It also minimizes the possibility of shocking an individual who is carrying hot drinks or going through narrow aisles.
5. The call button as a conversation starter
Certain passengers call flight attendants just to talk or even check in yet they do not know that the crew is dealing with safety checks, service timing, documentation and passenger demands in more than one row. It is not the matter of conversation, it is the matter of time. Small talk is best received during service, and on an empty cabin.
6. Listening to headphones via service or announcements
Having noise-canceling headphones during an order causes the crew to repeat the questions and delay the cart of all others behind the one with the headphones. This is one of the simplest solutions that have been described by a few flight attendants to make the service easier: remove headphones, look in their eyes, order briefly and place them on again after the interaction has occurred.
7. Requesting a complete refill of a water-bottle in the airplane
Refillable bottles are convenient, whilst the refill of in-flight bottles may be a drain on the scarce onboard water used to serve the cabin. Flight attendants have a tendency of selling the standard cup whereas passengers fill up bigger bottles in the terminal before boarding the aircrafts. It is a minor deviation that avoids supply issues in the later on in the flight.
8. Assisting oneself to the drinking cart
Picking up a soda or snack at the cart can appear to be the most efficient thing to do, but it destabilizes the order of service and puts the crew in crowd-control mode. Another working area the crew takes care of is the cart to keep it sanitized and stocked. Waiting until being attended to ensures that the aisle is clear and the tension among those passengers who were yet to be served in the mental system of the crew is reduced.
9. Wearing bare feet (or socks) in the lavatory
This behavior raises alarm in the minds of flight attendants because lavatory floors are dirty and this is what the crews are taught during training; that what appears to be water may not be clean. One of the flight attendants, Elizabeth Regan, said that it is unsanitary. Infectious-disease physician Dr. Dahlia Philips also observed that your feet are more exposed to germs, especially if you have small cuts or sensitive ski when you are walking barefoot. The easiest would be to wear shoes; slippers are also good.
10. Passing personal waste as if it were ordinary trash
Tissues, diapers, and items contaminated with bodily fluids should not be handed directly to a flight attendant. This has nothing to do with squeamishness, but safety and hygiene. The improved way is by putting a cap on waste, and throwing it in the lavatory trash. It shields the crew, passengers and keeps the service area hygienic.
11. Praising the pilot as people leave
The visible reward is often received by pilots, yet the daily safety and comfort in the aisle was taken care of by cabin crew. Such a small expression of gratitude to the attendants at the door occupies seconds and is seen as a show of respect to those who were running the cabin, not only the cockpit.
There is seldom any additional work involved in good airplane etiquette. It typically resembles restraint: allowing crews to operate their system, allowing common spaces to be used and managing minor problems without escalating them into cabin-wide issues. Once the passengers have set the proper standards of being polite, and matched it to the functioning of the flight, the cabin will become gentle to all, including the crew.
