A passenger has taken to social media to share the story of her upgrade to first class. It didn’t come due to elite status, spending miles, or dressing sharply (or whispering ‘revenue management’ to an agent). Instead she was moved to the front cabin after her seat opponent logged into the inflight internet and started searching for “sex on planes.”
I can only hope the man’s search for airplane porn brought up what US Airways once embarrassingly tweeted. However the older man started to actually watch some of the porn he’d found – people joining the mile high club as it were, and very much not discretely – so she got up and went to the galley where she found a sympathetic crewmember.
She even shared she thought that the man was watching porn in front of her on purpose. What he would have hoped to gain from this (in any world that actually exists) is unclear. But what it got her was removed from her position next to the man. If the porn made her uncomfortable, her new seat made her… very comfortable.
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Quite often there are no extra first class seats, and if there are a passenger might get moved to an empty coach seat. What’s most challenging is when there are no empty seats at all. Of course it’s still best to switch the passengers around, as well as talk to the person watching porn and tell him to wait until the plane lands to watch porn.
When you report the incident you do have to hope, of course, that your flight attendant isn’t watching porn. Air Canada once warned pilots to stop leaving porn in the cockpit. And Etihad pilots once wrote up their inflight wifi for being too slow to download porn.
I’m never watching that kind of movie. But what about an HBO or Showtime drama? I’m usually sitting in a premium cabin, so I have a little more space at least. But when I’m in coach I lean on inflight entertainment a bit more since it’s harder to get work done. Up front I’m rarely sitting next to young children, usually it’s a middle-aged business man. Still, I’ll fast forward through any of the more explicit scenes. Sitting in back I avoid those shows altogether.
(HT: C Boarding Group)
Am surprised the filters didn’t stop these thu gs the way they do in lounges and airport wifi. Must be an open system. Clearly a creeper! The pax had the last laugh…wish the FA went back and said thanks to your porn habit, the young lady is now enjoying first class treatment!
Call me very suspicious. I haven’t seen an empty seat in first-class on Delta in a long, long time. The only exceptions have been regional flights operated by their partners. Many of the flights have 30, 40 and even upwards of 50 passengers on the upgrade list, thanks to two years of status extensions. Admittedly, most of those flights are on mainline Delta. Yet, even Delta Connection’s smaller regional jets, which this appears to be, often have more than a dozen people on the upgrade list.
Dude, this story is beyond creepy. Based on the lady’s pick, no doubt he was intentionally doing it. That is despicable behavior.
I would think that the airlines would block the ability to surf porn websites, but maybe not. Years ago when DVD players first came out on laptops I was on a flight and a guy a row ahead of me and on the aisle seat booted up his computer and proceeded to watch a porn video. One of the F/A came by and walked past and stopped, backed up, saw what he was doing and told him to put it away NOW! That was more entertaining than the video he was watching. She wasn’t going to take no for an answer.
Really? I mean these days carriers have empty business class seat to accommodate her? Really?
Mile high kink!
The video shows it’s a Delta flight. Inconceivable this happened based on the way Delta upgrades all the way thru silver medallions, and the current status/volume of travel. Basically, the only way a seat would be open on Delta is if there were not enough people with even Silver status, or someone that was upgraded was a no show at the gate (and even then, Delta then goes back to those with status who are seated in coach and invites them to first class to fill the spare seat).
No wonder why I didn’t get my upgrade
If you’re visibly watching porn on a plane, do they really not tell you to knock it off? I’m no prude, but I see people watching some pretty explicit stuff on Netflix that I would question if I had young children that could readily see it. Do these people think they’re invisible? What next, he whips it out and starts joining the party?
Assuming it really happened, and commenters are raising some serious issues about the viability of the scenario, she should have filmed him watching and put that on TikTok under the title “Do You Know This Perv?”
I don’t believe it. Delta’s on-board network will never allow it. Do you really think http://www.delta.com, which is the site you’re at when you connect to wi-fi on board, allows any port sites?
BS – Empty first class seats are not a thing on domestic Delta flights.
Okay, okay, so it was a seat in Prem Econ at the bulkhead with the middle seat vacant. Will that make you pitching moaners happy?
Better that the porn watcher is told to knock it off rather than knock one out
So if there is an empty seat in first, slip your seatmate a $20 to log on and start watching porn.
People and crew have joined the MHC on commercial flights but making a video of it is hard to believe. There are several flight schools and charter operations in the U.S. that advertise MHC flights for consenting adults. Apparently there is a demand for it. Flamingo Air operates at Lunken Airport in Cincinnati, OH, an airport I used to fly out of. I had no idea they offered such services. Look it up under romantic adventure. They will even provide video equipment for a price if requested, so maybe a video was posted online and the guy found it.
Sounds like some passengers have found a new tool to try to get more space on the flight without having to pay up for it.
It used to be:
Q: “What is with all that porn in your possession?”
A: “For the articles, not the pictures.”
Now for flying travelers facing packed planes:
Q: “What is with all that porn in your possession”?
A: “To try to get more room when flying.”
@C_M: I saw a flight attendant looking at dick pics in her text messages once when getting up to use the lavatory and walking past her in the jump seat. Plenty of crew and passengers are looking at porn on the plane. Just not necessarily videos. I wonder what is considered porn these days. They sell Playboy at the airport. Playboy is pretty mild compared to what you can find on the internet. What about pulling out a Playboy and reading it? Some of the movies that Delta and other airplanes play in seatback entertainment have nudity and softcore sex scenes. Is that porn?
@Gennady: I have never seen a published list of censored websites when passengers connect to Gogo Inflight or ViaSat Wi-Fi on Delta Airlines flights. Although Russia’s invasion of Ukraine strengthens the ‘Splinternet,’ Delta Airlines does not seem to support inflight Wi-Fi censorship.
@Ken A: They don’t publish the list. But it exists. Neither does my company. But certain domain are excluded, and as my SysAdmin told me, this “black list” is constantly updated. Delta’s just maybe out of sync.
Time and place….I would think there would be a black list of sites….but as we all know it’s a bit of a whack a mole situation with websites and vpns.
I’ve seen pretty graphic stuff on Japan subway and trains in their manga/anime and no one blinks. Seen sex on the subways in NYC and caught a couple trying to sneak it under a blanket on a flight to Miami, and more then a few bobbing heads in parked cars……it’s just some people’s kink to get their sexuality out there in public places..
FNT Delta Diamond said, “They sell Playboy at the airport.”
Playboy stopped paying to produce and distribute monthly print issues of the Playboy magazine well before this incident.
@Gennady: If the list of banned websites when using Gogo or ViaSat inflight internet is secret, as is the passenger No-Fly list, I wonder if you get a refund when you can’t connect to your desired website URL. Perhaps as a service to VFTW readers, Gary could publish a link to the inflight internet blocklist.
If he was deliberately trying to let her know what he was watching without using head phones etc …then he is a rude and inconsiderate individual. If he was watching discretely using headphones and she was being a nosy busybody than she is the problem.
How does one watch “discretely” when everyone can see what you’re watching on your 15” 4K laptop. Sorry, but it’s not up to me or anyone else to avert my eyes from the gangbang on your screen. Have some sense of decency, there’s absolutely no reason for anyone to publicly consume visual porn. You want to read “Lady Chatterly” quietly, you might have a case, Pornhub, nope.
@Ken A: the list is not public, no way will anyone tell you which sites are banned or prohibited. Plus, the list is dynamic, and is per company policy, firewall, etc. For example, many companies ban Netflix (mine does), so that people don’t watch movies at work. As far as porn sites are concerned, I doubt many people would complain (or even know to whom to complain) if their attempt to access pornHub, for example, is prohibited.
Oh boo hoo hoo poor baby had to sit next to someone who was uncomfortable. Ever sit next to a screaming crying baby for a few hours? Talk about uncomfortable! It happens. Get over it. I’d rather sit next to someone watching porn over a screaming baby. I’ll take that any day. Either book a first class ticket to begin with or buy the seat next to you so it’s guaranteed empty. I don’t care for half of the people I come into contact with in public but I don’t get all boo hoo hoo my feelings are hurt. I mean, how many people today in restaurants or out in public start blasting facetime calls where everyone else can see and hear? People are very inconsiderate today and have little respect for others. This is simply no different. She was annoyed by someone. That happens a lot. Doesn’t need to be some social media start for 5 minutes as a result.
In the first video the lady is smiling and mugging for the camera as she shows off her first class seat. It looks like she is quite pleased with herself. In the second video the lady says she was seriously traumatized and crying for the whole flight. Hmmm?
Why do I get feeling some of the commenters here are guilty of indulging their porn addiction in public and resent being called on it?