adaobi123:
I was being serious !

Same here

Chinwem: Lol @ clapping ovation

You forgot to add, they make too much noise and they carry bags that are too big for the overhead compartment

Guy you hit the nail on the head. Though I never gave it much thought, I've experienced ALL the listed except No. 2 and 7.

Another AMAZING thing usually happened when Nigeria Airways was still flying in the late 90's and early 2000, can you imagine ppl will rush for seats IRRESPECTIVE of their seat numbers clearly written on their tickets, they will still want to sit wherever they choose.

Now, add fighting, insulting and cursing to the above..

Nice work Op.

Dear Oga at the top

When will I ever board a plane, if only to experience all what the OP and others have experienced?

Your worker below.

Well, when I saw the thread title, I came to check no 3 whether the writer will omit it.

booqee: Ok. Thank God you're nigerian too!
when next you're travelling..mind ur business. Pssst!
because you've only travelled within nigeria, u came with dis warped conclusion. Be in a plane having foreigners within,..and i'm very sure you'd be singing dis same song.
Trash!

Did I get u right?.
After reading this u come off with the conclussion that this cat has only travelled within Nigeria?.
You couldnt deduce from his language style that he is far from ur typical home bound Nigerian...u are hillarious dude.

obowunmi: OP: great topic.

I made the mistake of sitting next to a FAT, OBESE, FAT Nigerian woman and it is a day that I will never forget.... she had no teeth so her mouth smelt really bad, like the pit latrine. She kept farting and I couldn't tell if it was her mouth or her fart.... then she rested her head on my shoulder and kept spreading her FAT OBESE thighs... I said" ma'am, pls restrain yourself to your seat now, I'm a bit uncomfortable..."

This woman starts shouting... "I will strangle you to death...I said ehn..." aaaaahnn... there's more to the story.

Was she ibo or yoruba?

lafflaff123: No habits by anybody annoys me in the plane and as my friend told me BUY FIRST CLASS if you can't stand the things you see in the economy class and until then,i will continue taking in the good,the bad and the ugly of the economy class.

And at POSTER i don't know how often you travel,but if you travel a lot like me then you should have out grown looking out for faults or habits in other's as people can not be like you,act like you or be like you want them to be.

Just want to add an experience i had sometime last year and it was sad.

As a veteran of ECONOMY CLASS i was coming from Nigeria via Delta to the US and on getting to my sit there was a young girl(later discovered she is yoruba)on my space,looked at the boarding pass and number to be sure and told her excuse me please that's my sit.

I always take a sit by the aisle because i am tall and so can stretch my legs,she had the middle sit and on the third sit there was a very old man and i said hi to him then sat down.

Just siiting down and noticed this girl was restless and kept closing her nose with her hands and chatting fervently on her blackberry,raised her head up and asked me if we can change sits and i told her no. She started looking around urgently for an air hostess,spotted one and asked her if they can move her and they told her the plane was full and all this happening while the plane had not even taxied yet.

So i am wondering what's up with this girl as her restlessness was starting to bother me,especially as she had that first timer traveller look(over dressed to impress or give the impression they are well to do to the immigration at the port of entry)and after a few minutes she stood up to use the rest room and left her BB by my arm rest but i did not notice it.

Later looked at what was poking me and it was her phone glowing with her BB Chat open. Did not mean to read but the first message there caught my attention and this girl had been busy bashing the old man and texting,chatting and telling everybody via her phone that they put a smelly old man close to her.

I did not smell anything so wondering what the girl was smelling. But above all as an African i have respect for old people and even in my private thoughts i dont disrespect them let alone what the girl was doing by holding up her nose and blatantly insulting the old man by letting the old man know she does not want to be close to him.

We all eventually become old and i hope when she gets old people will run away from her.

She tried to make small banters with me but i ignored her and later when we were filling up our landing card,this stupid girl brought out her passport to fill and it was a fresh Nigerian passport and her first Visa was the US one and the old man she was calling a smelly old man brought out his US Passport.

So i am thinking this stupid girl has this attitude and have never even left Nigeria before and how will she behave when she starts living outside Nigeria.

This might sound mean but i prayed she ran into problems at the port of entry with the immigration people,but since she followed the line at the immigration point for visa holders i did not know how it ended.

Why did i get angry and still angry?my parents are very old and travel at least once a year to visit me for medicals and stuff and just the thought that one supid girl will call my parents SMELLY OLD PEOPLE just because they are OLD makes me get mad. That man did not stink and his only offence was being OLD.

An irony of life. Mean while they are the dirtiest tribe in Nigeria

Instead of nigerians to take corrections from what the op listed out,we are trying to defend a somewhat cultural defects of nigerians..Nigerians as a people are too loud,which makes people from other climes to look at us as barbaric..this problem steem from improper upbringing-parents,government and societal values,all these is summarized in one word: indiscipline, which we glorify in our everyday life.

I did 3 n 4 when i was goin 2 malaysia

Nice write up @ OP, but no3 is really not an offence, every first timer do it, and even the so call celeb do it too.. Am sure the OP do it too.

obowunmi: OP: great topic.

I made the mistake of sitting next to a FAT, OBESE, FAT Nigerian woman and it is a day that I will never forget.... she had no teeth so her mouth smelt really bad, like the pit latrine. She kept farting and I couldn't tell if it was her mouth or her fart.... then she rested her head on my shoulder and kept spreading her FAT OBESE thighs... I said" ma'am, pls restrain yourself to your seat now, I'm a bit uncomfortable..."

This woman starts shouting... "I will strangle you to death...I said ehn..." aaaaahnn... there's more to the story.

na wa.

Ile-Ife:


While waiting for our flight to Lagos. You know, a typical Nigerian gate. rowdy and noisy. The problem started when it was announced our flight will be delayed for 2 hours. It was like some switch was turned on the heads of these Igbos boys.

Before this, these guys had harassed basically every young woman on the plane and now they are threatening to beat up the airport staff because their flight was delayed. The most annoying part is that, they started vandalising the desk at the gate. The airport staff and security showed a lot of restrain because one of them was even assaulted.

I witnessed this as well last December. I had arrived Lagos from Madrid the previous night and almost half the plane didn't get their luggage. There were grumbles, occasional burst of emotion but no violence.

Compare this with what I witnessed the next evening as I went to see if my luggage had arrived.

Passengers from a recently arrived flight from Madrid including me hoping to find my luggage from the previous night had started to gather round a belt which was still sending out the boxes of mainly traders who had arrived on an earlier Turkish Airlines flight as. Then the belt stopped and an official said that was all from the Turkish Airlines flight.

See fight. These traders dont play. Started jumping on the belt, overturned queue management stands, chairs e.t.c and manhandled any airport staff they laid eyes upon. All these in the international arrival hall of Nigeria's major airport.

I remember flying out of Lagos in 2011 and as we passed the point of no return on take-off, I started hearing some commotion and loud noises from the back of the plane. I was sure it was the end. As my blood turned ice cold I managed to steal a glance to my left where 2 hostesses were sat. They didn't look perturbed and they even wryly smiled at each other.

After I regained my composure and listened carefully, It turned out to be 2 Nigerian women arguing and cursing each other. Mudafookers almost gave me a heart attack!

Pls, wats wrong in snapping pix in a plane bikonu; dis poster seems like one of my former classmates that beafs ppl alot.
Wats wrong in clapping that u made d journey, that u didnt have air crash?
Damn shaking the pilot as the only way to thank God for journey mercies

If we can chatter a cab when our car is not in shape
simply because we can these attitudes from some persons, why then do some of us raise our voices when those Nigeria who can afford it go for a Private Jet?

ogugua88:

[size=13pt]I taya. I wonder what they ate too. You brave sha. I've heard so many stories about those Delta flights from ATL lol.[/size]

I wonder if d toilet no go full toh brim b4 you land...also how dem dey take pack d shit wen dem reach.

slimyem: Stop bragging!!

sorry love....

obowunmi: OP: great topic.

I made the mistake of sitting next to a FAT, OBESE, FAT Nigerian woman and it is a day that I will never forget.... she had no teeth so her mouth smelt really bad, like the pit latrine. She kept farting and I couldn't tell if it was her mouth or her fart.... then she rested her head on my shoulder and kept spreading her FAT OBESE thighs... I said" ma'am, pls restrain yourself to your seat now, I'm a bit uncomfortable..."

This woman starts shouting... "I will strangle you to death...I said ehn..." aaaaahnn... there's more to the story.

**real tears**

Popowaa: I made frontpage

dis is one of d most annoyin things nigerians do on nairaland, always claimin everythin, even frontpage!

lafflaff123: No habits by anybody annoys me in the plane and as my friend told me BUY FIRST CLASS if you can't stand the things you see in the economy class and until then,i will continue taking in the good,the bad and the ugly of the economy class.

And at POSTER i don't know how often you travel,but if you travel a lot like me then you should have out grown looking out for faults or habits in other's as people can not be like you,act like you or be like you want them to be.

Just want to add an experience i had sometime last year and it was sad.

As a veteran of ECONOMY CLASS i was coming from Nigeria via Delta to the US and on getting to my sit there was a young girl(later discovered she is yoruba)on my space,looked at the boarding pass and number to be sure and told her excuse me please that's my sit.

I always take a sit by the aisle because i am tall and so can stretch my legs,she had the middle sit and on the third sit there was a very old man and i said hi to him then sat down.

Just siiting down and noticed this girl was restless and kept closing her nose with her hands and chatting fervently on her blackberry,raised her head up and asked me if we can change sits and i told her no. She started looking around urgently for an air hostess,spotted one and asked her if they can move her and they told her the plane was full and all this happening while the plane had not even taxied yet.

So i am wondering what's up with this girl as her restlessness was starting to bother me,especially as she had that first timer traveller look(over dressed to impress or give the impression they are well to do to the immigration at the port of entry)and after a few minutes she stood up to use the rest room and left her BB by my arm rest but i did not notice it.

Later looked at what was poking me and it was her phone glowing with her BB Chat open. Did not mean to read but the first message there caught my attention and this girl had been busy bashing the old man and texting,chatting and telling everybody via her phone that they put a smelly old man close to her.

I did not smell anything so wondering what the girl was smelling. But above all as an African i have respect for old people and even in my private thoughts i dont disrespect them let alone what the girl was doing by holding up her nose and blatantly insulting the old man by letting the old man know she does not want to be close to him.

We all eventually become old and i hope when she gets old people will run away from her.

She tried to make small banters with me but i ignored her and later when we were filling up our landing card,this stupid girl brought out her passport to fill and it was a fresh Nigerian passport and her first Visa was the US one and the old man she was calling a smelly old man brought out his US Passport.

So i am thinking this stupid girl has this attitude and have never even left Nigeria before and how will she behave when she starts living outside Nigeria.

This might sound mean but i prayed she ran into problems at the port of entry with the immigration people,but since she followed the line at the immigration point for visa holders i did not know how it ended.

Why did i get angry and still angry?my parents are very old and travel at least once a year to visit me for medicals and stuff and just the thought that one supid girl will call my parents SMELLY OLD PEOPLE just because they are OLD makes me get mad. That man did not stink and his only offence was being OLD.

And that YORUBA GIRL if you are reading this and on NAIRALAND i say again people will run away from you too when you get old.

she must have really offended u. Seems you are not from her tribe... Pls dont be tribalistic. i'm nt supporting her but U'll get to meet pple with worse behaviours...

You forgot those that use their phones while the phone is about to take off...those that speak in tongues when there is turbulence. The loud Igbo dudes coming from China meeting his secondary school mate coming from Thailand, they gist about everything from Biafra to their Jewish origin even if there are five rows of seats in between them.

Jollof:
7. Sitting ovation. I'm not sure if you can relate but you're nearing your flight destination and as soon as the plane lands successfully passengers around you start to clap until virtually everyone joins in. Why are they doing this, you ask? beats me - for landing safely or for not crashing into the deep blue sea or for getting their money's worth after usurping the mini bar...I dunno. The clapping is cheesy in my opinion. I'd much prefer passengers go one by one to shake the pilot(s) for a job well done plane well-landed.

This is pretty much universal, not particular with Nigerian flyers

lafflaff123: No habits by anybody annoys me in the plane and as my friend told me BUY FIRST CLASS if you can't stand the things you see in the economy class and until then,i will continue taking in the good,the bad and the ugly of the economy class.

And at POSTER i don't know how often you travel,but if you travel a lot like me then you should have out grown looking out for faults or habits in other's as people can not be like you,act like you or be like you want them to be.

Just want to add an experience i had sometime last year and it was sad.

As a veteran of ECONOMY CLASS i was coming from Nigeria via Delta to the US and on getting to my sit there was a young girl(later discovered she is yoruba)on my space,looked at the boarding pass and number to be sure and told her excuse me please that's my sit.

I always take a sit by the aisle because i am tall and so can stretch my legs,she had the middle sit and on the third sit there was a very old man and i said hi to him then sat down.

Just siiting down and noticed this girl was restless and kept closing her nose with her hands and chatting fervently on her blackberry,raised her head up and asked me if we can change sits and i told her no. She started looking around urgently for an air hostess,spotted one and asked her if they can move her and they told her the plane was full and all this happening while the plane had not even taxied yet.

So i am wondering what's up with this girl as her restlessness was starting to bother me,especially as she had that first timer traveller look(over dressed to impress or give the impression they are well to do to the immigration at the port of entry)and after a few minutes she stood up to use the rest room and left her BB by my arm rest but i did not notice it.

Later looked at what was poking me and it was her phone glowing with her BB Chat open. Did not mean to read but the first message there caught my attention and this girl had been busy bashing the old man and texting,chatting and telling everybody via her phone that they put a smelly old man close to her.

I did not smell anything so wondering what the girl was smelling. But above all as an African i have respect for old people and even in my private thoughts i dont disrespect them let alone what the girl was doing by holding up her nose and blatantly insulting the old man by letting the old man know she does not want to be close to him.

We all eventually become old and i hope when she gets old people will run away from her.

She tried to make small banters with me but i ignored her and later when we were filling up our landing card,this stupid girl brought out her passport to fill and it was a fresh Nigerian passport and her first Visa was the US one and the old man she was calling a smelly old man brought out his US Passport.

So i am thinking this stupid girl has this attitude and have never even left Nigeria before and how will she behave when she starts living outside Nigeria.

This might sound mean but i prayed she ran into problems at the port of entry with the immigration people,but since she followed the line at the immigration point for visa holders i did not know how it ended.

Why did i get angry and still angry?my parents are very old and travel at least once a year to visit me for medicals and stuff and just the thought that one supid girl will call my parents SMELLY OLD PEOPLE just because they are OLD makes me get mad. That man did not stink and his only offence was being OLD.

And that YORUBA GIRL if you are reading this and on NAIRALAND i say again people will run away from you too when you get old.

In as much as I do not want to judge u, I wud still love to think that u as an elderly man shudnt be raining curses on an innocent young girl.

Who made me a judge?... But if I'm left to judge, I would justify the girl and say u are guilty. U shud av corrected the young girl instead of coming to nairaland I believe.

I know u may be trying to correct other people but u seem like a gossiper as well as petty for even trying to ignore the girl on board.

U are cursing the lady but what if ur son end up marrying her or ur cousin, brother or so. U forgot this world is a small world.

At that time, we wud now think its the people in the village.

WHAT WE SOW WE REAP.

Jollof:
6. Leaving toilets unlocked. Common sense consistently fails to prevail when most Nigerians use the airline's restrooms. It all boils down to refusing to acknowledge the instructions/directions carefully displayed all around them. It's quite simple - you enter the restroom and close it behind you. Right there on door is a slide lock which denotes 'Slide left to lock and right to open'. Why wouldn't I be interested in making sure that no one accidentally sees my 'bits'? Didn't they notice the green 'vacant' or the red 'occupied' sign before entering the lavatory? At my last count I've walked in on 3 unfortunate passengers who forgot to lock behind (but they all did once I exposed them...makes you wonder, eh?).

7. Sitting ovation. I'm not sure if you can relate but you're nearing your flight destination and as soon as the plane lands successfully passengers around you start to clap until virtually everyone joins in. Why are they doing this, you ask? beats me - for landing safely or for not crashing into the deep blue sea or for getting their money's worth after usurping the mini bar...I dunno. The clapping is cheesy in my opinion. I'd much prefer passengers go one by one to shake the pilot(s) for a job well done plane well-landed.

And coming in at a surprise number 8 is Irregular exercise. Make no mistake about it, Nigerians are terrified about premature death, more so than the average civilian (if that makes any sense). I've seen the most bizarre repetitions performed from kicking mid-air to punching only your left arm over the seat head in the same direction. Deep Vein thrombosis is no laughing matter so I guess all I have to do is close my eyes next time if I don't want to behold seemingly amateurish 'Kung-fu'.

See you on the next flight and God help you if you're sitting next to me, lol.

@Op, quit sounding like a diva. This is the gayest piece of shi.t I've seen on nairaland this year. I initially thought all these excuses were written by a girl. What's wrong with encouraging a pilot with a round of applause after some smooth flight?

obowunmi: OP: great topic.

I made the mistake of sitting next to a FAT, OBESE, FAT Nigerian woman and it is a day that I will never forget.... she had no teeth so her mouth smelt really bad, like the pit latrine. She kept farting and I couldn't tell if it was her mouth or her fart.... then she rested her head on my shoulder and kept spreading her FAT OBESE thighs... I said" ma'am, pls restrain yourself to your seat now, I'm a bit uncomfortable..."

This woman starts shouting... "I will strangle you to death...I said ehn..." aaaaahnn... there's more to the story.

To continue sha, they served the airplane food, and I was a bit exhausted so I said, let me take a quick nap before I eat... I wake up only to find that this FAT SHITZO, eating my food... when I woke up, the air hostess was clearing my plate from her table...I was in such awe and disgust. At this point, I asked to be moved but the plane was full. One of the worst plane rides, I've ever been on.

These just shows this bush OP has only been in a plane flying to or from Nigeria only all his life.

I can bet some people who havent been on an international flight are also writing jargon on in here.

obowunmi: OP: great topic.

I made the mistake of sitting next to a FAT, OBESE, FAT Nigerian woman and it is a day that I will never forget.... she had no teeth so her mouth smelt really bad, like the pit latrine. She kept farting and I couldn't tell if it was her mouth or her fart.... then she rested her head on my shoulder and kept spreading her FAT OBESE thighs... I said" ma'am, pls restrain yourself to your seat now, I'm a bit uncomfortable..."

This woman starts shouting... "I will strangle you to death...I said ehn..." aaaaahnn... there's more to the story.

This is very funny.. Tell me is a joke before laughter finish me

Funny!

Keneking:

Was she ibo or yoruba?

I'm not a tribalist.

gboss4sure:

This is very funny.. Tell me is a joke before laughter finish me

I'm not lying....this is a real life story. We should be more concerned with sitting next to mental patients than anything else....

obowunmi:

I'm not lying....this is a real life story. We should be more concerned with sitting next to mental patients than anything else....

Truer words have never been spoken.