Question for the room: does it bug anybody else to have people get on the airplane with their aromatic pizza or tacos and start munching down? Bugs the crap out of me, but I may (it has been rumored) just be a curmudgeon.
Colonel, USAFR
Doesn’t bother me. Once the airlines stopped feeding is it’s every man for himself.
Seems kindda silly to bring food on a 1-2 hour flight, but on a TRANSCON? I pack a lunch. It’s what tray tables are for.
I have to admit that it doesn’t bother me. Especially so now that airlines are cutting costs by reducing/eliminating the meals. I remember the first time I ever flew as a kid, we flew to Phoenix on Braniff (not even in business anymore) and the meal was actually quite good, and filling. Now, we fly to Phoenix, and you get a couple of bags of cookies or peanuts. I don’t blame people for bringing outside food onto the plane.
No, I expect people to do things like that when I fly. It is within the bounds of decency, although perhaps not as courteous behavior as you would expect. The one thing that causes me physical illness is being confined in a public area where a woman has on too much perfume. Enough to produce burning nose, nausea and migraine, but I would never take it upon myself to complain about it to a stranger.