Plane Passenger Screams at Man Who Stood Up Immediately When the Seatbelt Sign Turned Off — but Who's Wrong?
A video that showed a woman accusing her fellow passenger of blocking the aisle has sparked debate online
A plane passenger who stood up the moment the seatbelt light turned off is coming under social media scrutiny, reigniting a long-standing debate about proper airplane etiquette.
In a video originally shared to Instagram and later reposted to the Reddit's KarenGoBrrr subreddit, which details stories of entitled people having public arguments, a passenger on a Delta flight captured footage of a woman unleashing a profanity-laced tirade against her fellow passenger for standing up in the aisle immediately when the seatbelt flight turned off upon landing.
The woman can be heard calling out her fellow flyer for blocking the aisle while still "not getting off the plane any faster."
"You're trying to hop over people that's in front of you," the woman shouts in the video as the other passengers fall silent.
She adds that the passenger who stood up is in a "rush to go nowhere," while there are people behind him who have a connecting flight to catch.
"Nobody else is gonna say it so I'm gonna...say it," the woman adds.
The video sparked a heated debate in the online forum, with many commenters joking that while her delivery might have been harsh, they agreed with her message.
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"Sorry but she’s not wrong," one Reddit user writes. "Saying what everyone is thinking. People used to be so much more considerate."
"I would have started clapping like an idiot, happy after what she just said," another user chimed in.
Not all commenters agreed though. One argued that standing in the aisle can make things go quicker, as you can be ready to go as soon as the person in front of you moves.
"I had to book a last minute flight with a tight connection to see my dad when he had a cardiac arrest and was being kept alive in an ICU," another person wrote candidly. "If someone was yelling at me that I had 'nowhere to be,' I don’t know what I would've done."
PEOPLE spoke to travel advisor Nicole Campoy Jackson of Fora Travel about his exact situation and she previously shared her advice on plane etiquette when it comes to standing in the aisle when the plane lands — and her advice may surprise some.
The aisle seat passenger standing up immediately once the fasten seat belt sign is turned off, she says, "makes sense for a number of reasons."
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“First, everyone’s been sitting for hours, you may just want to hop up to get the blood flowing," she told PEOPLE in a March interview. "Second, the person in the middle seat will appreciate the aisle seat opening up as they collect their things."
"Lastly," she added, "it does feel good to get the next step in the process going." While doing this "likely saves a matter of seconds at most," Jackson explained that the rule mostly serves a "considerate, mental, and emotional" purpose.
However, Jackson also notes this practice only works if everyone is conscious of their fellow passengers' surroundings and don't get in their personal space.
“The worst version is when people are basically standing on each other's toes, bags squished together in the aisle, people nearly dropping carry-ons onto the heads of passengers still seated," she said. "Standing is a yes. Making others feel crammed, inconvenienced, or like you’re trying to cut ahead of them is a no."
One thing the travel advisor noted is that behavior like this woman's may be a faux pas, simply because the one thing to avoid is commenting on how slowly other people are moving.
“Every airplane passenger wants off that flight, whether it was a 2 hour hop or a 16 hour haul. Some people move more slowly, some are pro travelers who have their disembarking process down," she said. "You don’t get to choose how fast they move and yelling always makes things more stressful, not less.”