Do you talk to the person next to you on the plane?

No because 90% of the time I'm flying to or from Glasgow International and the plane is full of Glaswegians. Bloody loud, irritating bunch. That and I've never flown alone so always had someone there to talk to.
 
Gaijin said:
I must admit I get a peverse pleasure watching the person in front trying to put their seat back. Being tall my knees make this impossible yet I won't inform them of this and instead watch them struggle.
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I think it's quite rude when people just whack there seat back with out asking or at least checking to see if the person behind is not for example about to place their hot coffee on the table tray.
 
Thinking about it, the last few times I've flew on my own I have either meet someone I knew or talked to the person next to us.

Last time it was a Polish guy who was scared of flying and decided to neck a lot of vodka! Funny experince mind!
 
Gaijin said:
I do try to, but I've had a run of bad luck - perhaps just by chance sitting with people who aren't "my sort of person"

Last long haul was to Malaysia.

On the way had some proper miserable bitch who had the window seat, and myself and the irish lass had the two seats nearest the aisle. Anyway this cretin chucked on her pirates eye patch thing, and ear plugs 10 minutes after sitting down and appeared to want to sleep. Fair enough you'd think. However, the crew served a meal not 10 minutes later and the air hostess asked me to give the woman a tap to see if she wanted her meal. Doing so enraged the slumbering dragon and she went off on one.

Fair enough she wanted to sleep but she had to be offered her meal or she probably would have had an eppy, failing that she should have told us she didnt want any meals and not to be disturbed.

Of course that didn't stop her nudging me when she needed the loo when we were both asleep.

On the way back, I thought we'd done better but instead we got an australian bloke who was trying to encroach in my leg area (I'm 6'3'' and need all the room I can get). Worse was he brought his own DVD player and proceeded to laugh out loud very loudly at the movies he'd brought with him, even when we were sleeping.

Other bad flights I've had included one next to a fatty who was literally holding himself in, and a lady who stunk of BO - also on the way to Malaysia although about 10 years ago.



Best time was when on a flight to Ireland, I sat next to a rather appealing young lady who was a presenter for Sky covering the European Drift Championship. Bonza.
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I have been in similar situations as yourself, but what really ticked me off the most is when someone has bad BO I mean really bad, what can you do?
 
I try not too, had a nice hour long flight talking to a nerdy girl which was nice, though she was 18 and coming back from her bf's house in Belfast killing it completely.

Other than that I prefer to leer... (flew yesterday, got to look but not talk as thats too much on a late night flight)
 
DJMK4 said:
I hate the people who take your window seat, even though you clearly have the window seat ticket, needless to say I stupidly didn't speak up.
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Hmm, I have never thought to ignore it personally, nor have I seen a problem in telling them to get out of my seat. I figured they were trying their luck in hoping it was a free seat.

But to OP no, I don't strike up conversations. From reading this thread I feel somewhat lucky that others haven't tried to have conversations with me, apart from one that I can remember but that was as we were landing.
 
I did, he even wanted me to take a picture, so I did, will post when I get home!
 
I'm in Houston right now for a few weeks for work and so used to the long flight. I would say 80% of the time I don't speak to the people next to me because they have always looked boring as hell.

If I got an anyway remotely good looking girl sitting beside me I would definitely pipe up with some charming conversation! But that's a rarity ...

I'm just happy to watch films, read my book and drink gin as long as there is not an annoying tit or some sort of maniac sitting beside me. I've been pretty lucky with that respect so far.
 
The last time I was on a plane I was 3 and sitting with my mother so I don't think I did, no. :p

But I've had conversations with random people at bus stops/on trains and the like before. It's more fun than just staring out into space waiting for the bus to come anyway.
 
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