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To a few people who have been traveling via the airlines for quite a few years, it is becoming obvious that the courtesy issue has dropped.  A few say it is because of a decline in airline service resulting in smaller and closer seats, charging customers for almost everything with a fee, and greater airport security.  All these things and perhaps a few additional have made airline travel challenging to the traveler, and we want to impart several ways we as passengers can make the airline travel experience improved.

Here is a consensus of what some etiquette experts articulate on probable disputed areas:

1.    Who gets the armrests?  There is widespread agreement that those in the center seat gets both, because unlike the passengers on either side, they have nowhere to lean.  In addition, it is some compensation for having to take a seat in that middle seat.

2.    The window seat passenger has to go to the bathroom, and he has to get about two slumbering passengers who are strangers.  Tapping the stranger on the shoulder and courteously asking ought to do the trick, as there can be obviously no other choices.  However, he ought to limit the disruptions to a bare minimum.

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3.    A passenger brings smelly food in the airplane and opens it up.  Not a lot that the offended passengers can do excluding turn the air outlet on full blast.  But for any passenger to do this is just improper and maybe only does it from ignorance.

4.    Over a long flight the nearby young ones are disobedient.  First, try to ignore it for so long as you are able to, next nicely say something to the parent if you cannot take it anymore.  If it nevertheless persists, turn it over to your flight attendant, who is trained to control such issues.

5.    A tall or really bulky individual sitting next to you infringes in your area.  This is obviously a touchy one, as seats on several flights have gotten pretty little, and people are getting larger in general.  Although you are allowed to your space from armrest to armrest of the seat you bought, every person really needs to be levelheaded to make the airline travel experience improved.  I’ve found body language can go a long way in everybody positioning themselves in an agreeable position, but when things get truly uncomfortable, request the flight attendant if it might be viable to relocate.

6.    My personal pet gripe, people who recline their seats so far as possible.  I by no means do it unless the seat behind is vacant, and if anyone in front of me does it but it infringes on my space, my knees are probably going to dig into the rear of their seat, and it will probably be uncomfortable.  Oh, well.  I am somewhat taller than typical, and if there is no place to put my legs, they are going to push against the seat reclined into my lap.

The actual fact is, with all the restrictions and with aircraft getting fuller and more cramped; we all have to take an approach of “let’s get through this as best we can.”  Meaning for a short period of time, we all must get by under circumstances that aren’t the most cozy to make the airline travel experience improved.  But when all of us work together observing conventional etiquette procedures, the encounter can be made more pleasurable.