This will be a bit of a lame rant, so I’ll try to make it quick.
I had to do some air travel over the past few days. On my way home on Saturday, I was in Edmonton Intl airport.
It was getting close to the scheduled departure time, so all the passengers (about 60-70?) were starting to gather around the gate. The standard pre-boarding announcment for elderly, childern etc comes over the loudspeaker. I notice that about 15 ft away from me is an elderly lady in a wheelchair, next to a plant that was hiding her from view of the gate and with no obvious chaparone (sp?). Her eyes are darting around like she’s confused or in a bit of distress. I noticed that several other passanger look at her, but don’t approach her to see if she needs a hand. Finally, after a couple minutes I notice the pre-boarding is almost done and nobody is offering to help. So, I approach her (and have to go right in front of at least 30 other people) and say “Would you like to get on the pre-boarding for the flight?”
“Oh, yes, please!” So, I grab the back of the wheelchair and start making my way to the agent at the gate. The other agent starts announcing “general boarding” just as I appear in front of her at the gate so literally EVERYONE ELSE rushes to the gate and cuts me off with no more than 6 feet to go. Fucking assholes.
The other agent then saw I was trying to help the lady but she now had to wait until everyone else was on the plane.
So, to all you fuckers on Westjet flight 26 that couldn’t wait another 1 minute Saturday, and those who didn’t offer to help the little old lady who obviously needed a hand, here is a hearty FUCK YOU. I hope all of you get stuck in wheelchairs and get ignored more sooner than later.
I just want to say good for you for helping the little old lady when no one else would. What is the world coming to when people won’t help someone who is so obviously in need of assistance. I say the rest of those passengers deserve the cramped coach seats that they are about to suffer through. Those evil Assholes. :mad:
This is where a good set of lungs come in handy. Soon as the people started closing in I woulda hollered “Hold up! We got one more pre-board!” in my most impressive stentorian baritone. That woulda gotten some attention.
Thirded on the “fuck you brainless prats who are too damn important for everyone else in the world”. You’d think the other people who saw this woman might have had the decency to say something to the flight attendant, at least.
People who run up to the front of the line when it’s time to board airplanes piss me off anyway. People, you have an ASSIGNED SEAT. It does not matter whether you are first in line or last in line, you are going to get the same goddamn seat. (Except for airlines like Southwest that don’t have assigned seats, of course, but I am speaking of the majority of airlines here.) It irritates me so much when they call “rows 24 and higher” or whatever, and people sitting in lower rows crowd into line anyway, as though they’re really getting away with something. No, all you’re doing is jamming the aisle needlessly and creating a much longer wait to board the plane for the rest of us.
And running in front of a person in a wheelchair, just so you can sit in your ASSIGNED SEAT two seconds faster – that’s just awful. They should have yanked those assholes out of line and made them wait until every single other person on the plane had boarded, before letting them board.
AMEN to that. Its not like your not going to get on the flight.
And don’t give me the fucking excuse that there isn’t enough room in an overhead compartment to store your fucking bag if your the last person. Do what everyone else does and put it under the seat in front of you.