One of the biggest faux pas in travel is putting your feet up on the plane’s bulkhead, or on the seat in front of you. Even worse is bare feet. Worse still a passenger clipping their toenails during diner service.
Some of them will go into the lavatory with bare feet. One passenger with smelly feet drove another so nuts that he got stabbed on arrival.
Still I’m strangely fascinated by a business class passenger who flew Delta from Turks & Caicos to New York JFK on Monday evening, February 14.
Here you see the passenger with feet up on the bulkhead. So far so good (bad). But where it really gets interesting is the dexterity with which they used their feet to control the seat back entertainment system. A reader took video of this skill, and I can’t look away.
If there’s ever been a good argument for American Airlines’ decision to remove seat back entertainment screens, this has to be it. Now that airlines aren’t cleaning planes as much anymore as they say you have no idea whose feet were on the screen in front of you on the last flight.
I’ll note that Delta is still proactively handing out alcohol wipes to passengers as part of the boarding process, so fortunately when flying Delta you’re covered when you’re the next passenger after this joker.
This is why the No Fly List exists… not for people who refuse face diapers.
The blowback from the Covid panic has made me realize that so much of our concern about germs is really pathological, unhealthy, and fails to appreciate the anti-fragility of our biological defenses such that exposure to germs is not only benign, but necessary to build immunity and thrive. I’m done caring about stuff like this. Bring it all on.
Whoa!
Was that Lucky from OMAAT who just recently went to Turks & Caicos? 😉
The way we behave in public, reveals our personality. Same as our work ethic, or not, reveals our personality.
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Business class but No Class.
Welcome aboard, Margot Tenenbaum #iykyk
A race to the bottom. Classless. I surely do not want to be in their company.
Scumbag!
Its usually women and women raised in the USA. Most are very entitled as American culture has trained them to feel and act like “princesses”.
Should have a NO CLASS section on these planes for people like that.
Doing his parents proud. I wonder if this “classy” guy exhibits the same behavior at restaurants, etc. What is going on in the world today? I guess he thought that he was sitting in business no class, lol.
Doing his parents proud. I wonder if this “classy” guy exhibits the same behavior at restaurants, etc. What is going on in the world today? I guess he thought that he was sitting in business no class, lol.
Honestly I don’t think feet on bulkhead is remotely comparable to feet on the seat in front of you (though, of course, they should never be bare, regardless of where they are). You’re not bothering the bulkhead. (And no, this isn’t personal privilege because I’m too tall to comfortably rest my feet on a bulkhead.)
You typically cough and sneeze into your hands, so I’d hazard his feet are probably less of a germ vector than using his hands. Not to mention he’s unlikely to touch his mouth with his feet. I think this is a prudent way to control touch screens- will have to practice before my next flight!
If the passenger is confident this is OK to do this in public it must be awful living with it in a home where you have to see bad its behavior daily.
Do they put their nasty feet on their walls at home????? DO NOT do this on a plane.
I’ve seen worse. A woman used her toes to swipe screen to change movie while laying down in business class from JFK-LAX. Had to tell her to please not do that.