When I get on a long flight the first thing I do is take my pants off. That is, I change into pajamas. If I’m flying first class the airline usually gives me a pair (to keep, though my home is full of airline pajamas I rarely taken them along anymore).
If I’m flying business class some airlines provide pajamas, others don’t. United offers them on flights of 12 hours or more but only stocks enough for 60% of passengers to take them.
If an airline isn’t going to give me pajamas in business class, I’ll bring my own. Generally though I’ll bring a pair of that airline’s pajamas. When I flew American Paris – Dallas in business class earlier this year, I brought a pair of American Airlines pajamas to wear — even though it was a Westbound (day) flight rather than an overnight. It just helps me settle in comfortably for the ten hour journey.
I don’t do this on short flights, but I don’t begrudge anyone who does — as long as you follow etiquette when changing.
A passenger on a Las Vegas – Oakland flight on Saturday took off all their clothes and apparently forgot to put their pajamas on.
Officials say a Spirit Airlines flight leaving Las Vegas was briefly delayed after a passenger removed all their clothes while boarding and approached a flight attendant.
The flight was delayed 30 minutes while police and medical personnel removed the naked man from the plane.
Last year I wrote about the man who walked through the Nashville airport naked and attempted to buy a ticket.
In 2015 there was a man who stripped naked to protest a flight delay on US Airways.
Sadly this is all much more common than you’d think.
- A flight was delayed 11 hours after a passenger became unruly, stripped naked, and requested sex from a flight attendant.
- A nearly naked man stormed a TSA checkpoint and got tased on the buttocks.
- In May a woman stripped naked and kicked at the cockpit on a Frontier flight.
- A naked man fell through the ceiling of Boston Logan’s terminal C.
Virgin America actually confirms that passengers are welcome to check-in in their underwear.
Credit: Reddit user deftones1
No word if the Spirit Airlines passenger was flying out to meet the woman who walked around the Atlanta airport naked in April.
(HT: Ken A.)
ambien ?
Spirit. Home of the bare fare. 🙂
The use of Flacca, an illegal drug, can cause people to exhibit bizarre behavior while high, including removal of their clothes. See, http://www.cbsnews.com/news/flakka-floridas-dangerous-new-drug-trend/.
I’ve been saying for the last few years now that I believe that reality tv shows have caused a whole new surge of crazy….I’m not a reality tv show viewer, I think most of them are stupid and frankly can’t tell you who the cast members are or what the shows are about, but from what I see on commercials for these shows, bad and downright crazy behavior is encouraged to increase ratings, the crazier you act the more people tune in to see how stupid you’ll be this week? The people on these shows demonstrate that if you act crazy (or fail to hide the crazy inside) that you get what you want. Just scream, holler, kick, say crazy things and do crazy things and you’ll be paid large sums of money, get the guy/girl, get your food order free, your refund plus a store credit or win political office, whatever it is they are asking for! We need only to look at our political leaders both here and abroad to see that no one bothers to check crazy behavior anymore (Assad?Erdogan? Duterte? Trump?) I’ve read estimates that approximately 15% of the population has some sort of mental disease/defect and in years past, we encouraged them to keep it in check, and they did, for fear of getting locked up, medicated, losing custody of kids, losing jobs or whatever they valued. These days, it doesn’t seem to matter, consequences are minor if there are any at all and poor behavior is encouraged and they are told nothing is their fault. Crazy just gets crazier….
“apparently forgot to put *his* pajamas on” — one person, a male; not “their”
Crazy people… its very funny
Tased in the buttocks. Ouch. Funny, but ouch.
Why are you writing “their” when it is male? You mean “his….”.
Seems unnecessarily awkward or politically correct.
I was so cold on my Rome, Italy flight I would have welcomed pajamas over my clothes. It’s too cold to go naked on the plane.