Video has been seen on twitter over a million times of women on board a TUI flight blasting music, dancing in their seats and tossing back a beverage – while a passenger across the aisle has her head planted firmly in her tray table with hands over her ears trying to escape the madness.
While some commenters just say they’re having a great time, getting a head start on their holiday, and I’m sympathetic with anyone who can find joy in less than 31 inches of legroom, this fails that Kant test: what would happen if everyone did this at the same time?
Women blast music on the plane as if they own it. pic.twitter.com/Vxu24N9vyu
— Censored Men (@CensoredMen) April 23, 2023
Naturally some commenters suggest ‘that’s what noise-cancelling headphones are for’ which is a similar refrain when children are crying on board. But the truth is that you can’t really create a bubble or fortress of solitude in your own space with these. They help cancel out noise from the aircraft’s engines, but only offer limited benefit against music and crying.
Active noise cancellation listens for noise frequencies and emits the opposite signal to cancel out the soundwaves. That works best with low frequencies which produce longer waves. Passive cancellation from over the ear headphones can help here more than noise cancelling active headphones, but will be imperfect.
Here it is first the responsibility of the passengers on board not to do this, and second the responsibility of crew not to allow this to be done. Both have abdicated, but it’s TUI, a German package tour holiday airline. It, and Jet2, are experiences that Americans merely experienced with Spirit have no way of understanding. Passengers who never fly a legacy carrier are already letting loose and it’s everyone for themselves.
(HT: @YourOwnKanoo)
Really though why wouldn’t the flight attendants step in and do their job. Must have not been so long or as bad as trying to be portrayed. Blame the flight attendants.
Shouldn’t the FA say something?
really a mess a air and its not a private flight they are annoying every such useless job.
Wow Gary, this is fantastic!
There is no end to the selfishness with people today.
TUI promotes itself to holidaymakers; but, instead of AA 1971’s piano bar, https://youtu.be/KnimcgMPuXk it’s buttocks in 28-inch pitch seats, and it’s up to the holidaymakers to make their own a tik-tok evolution of the ’70’s AA piano bar.
Some drunken moment on a fly&flop beach holiday, I’ll book my first flight holiday package on TUI.
Crap like this kinda makes me miss the days when air travel was just expensive enough to be beyond the affordability of society’s lowest denominator.
Not acceptable on a commercial flight. Not sure where the FA team was to ask them to take it down a notch. While in flight passengers can put a hold on political, religious, gender and party outbursts and resume their activates once they deplane. Being in a tight tube with a hundred plus other people, it would be considerate to put a pause on over-the-top activities.
Once again proving that FA’s are just a bunch of sky waitresses.
Their right to party in the air ends with everyone else’s right to Not have to attend someone else’s party. Rude, selfish and pathetically narcissistic
I really wish them the worst. Like the absolute worst.
The lowest common denominator is right. Flight attendants would be damned either way. Personally I have seen this on public transportation in several countries; and there is a “cultural” element that is the same in every one I have witnessed.
That would give me a headache after my brain surgery music like that really wreaks havoc on my head. It should not be allowed on a flight when it disrupts those around you please put in earphones.
Feral people have to fly too, unfortunately.
Make them sit in the back of the bus, I mean airplane.
I have had about enough of TNB and the excuses made fir it.
Notice how much more padding the seats have than US carriers have?
Taking a vacation from what? Leaching on taxpayer money most likely.
@ Wesley — I didnt notice any multi-millionaires, so not sure what you mean.
Shame on these people. Other passengers need to work, sleep, or just don’t want to hear their music.
I hope Flight Attendants stepped in.
Flight 1390
The FA should hand them complimentary headsets and tell them they cannot play it out loud.
Aww, you applied Kantian ethics. Your philosophy prof would be proud. 😉
They better not be on the return flight! If I were one of the passengers I would stand up and block the aisle till they tell her turn off the music! TUI is a trash airline anyway
McDonalds is short two cashiers.
Some of the nasty little racist comments on my here are just disgusting. Hmmm… annoying people on a plane, or a Racist. I’ll take the annoy plane people, at least we can be rid of them after the flight.
There have been a number of videos and posts lately on people performing music including choirs singing, people singing songs and others joining in, guitar playing, etc on flights. and they all seemed to get a whole different reaction. Is it the type of music that makes the difference here?
Personally I say no to all of it – not just some. Don’t pick and choose.