esere826: MODs get this out of FP
plagiarism kills innovation
NairaLand should not encourage such

pweetixandy: dis wont change a fin

richgang: what of us wen never come enter plane , weti una say make we comment

funkybaby: Middle aged and obviously married men staring hard and trying so hard to start a conversation whilst seated next to them.

Very annoying I tell ya !

Guidette: I just travelled 2 days ago on a flight to London. i think there were only 2 Nigerians like me on the flight and the rest were mostly British. i experience the periodic farting.... it was horrible. I think Oyinbo mess is worse than any other type of mess i have experienced in my life *pukes*
I also experienced the drinking thing too. An oyinbo lady sitting beside me drank nearly 8 bottles of the small wines they serve on BA. It got so bad that she went to sleep, woke up 2 hrs later and was nearly delirious. It took the intervention of 2 of the flight attendants to calm her down. They took her to the back of the plane and she disappeared for an hr. When she returned, I saw another 2 bottles of wine in her hand

So please don't generalise.... Nigerians are not the only ones that do things like that. You need to travel other routes and see that human beings of all races and creeds are the same everywhere.

oloriooko: @ OP
So what? We are Nigerians and proud of it, we do not give a hoot whose ox is gourde
For your info, I experienced the clapping thing aboard a plane to Greece though a clean probably new plane, immediately we touched down all the oyinbos started clapping to my utmost surprise but if done here, it's an annoying thing abi?

chairman: There is this man in our flight from amsterdam to lagos eating rice with the back of his fork, he will gather this rice at the back of his fork with great effort and will not put it in his mouth until he makes sure that somebody is watching him. At a point I said 'bros which one be this na' and he said that this is the right way to eat rice, and I asked why he is trying this hard to show us. But the clapping at the landing of the plane is not a nigerian thing even the oyinbos are the ones who usualy start it before most ppl who may not even know why they are clapping joined them

Victoriousvic: I remember the clapping stuff. Actually experienced it once, and I had to ask what was going on

How bout the first-time flyers who panic at everything?

I remember this woman who was on a flight with us going to Lagos. When the plane was about taking-off, this woman kept screaming, "Jesus! Blood of Jesus! Edi oh! ("come oh" in Efik) and she was panicking and even making passengers including myself scared.

She got calm after we took off, but when we started flying over the clouds, and the plane started bouncing a little bit, she started again. This time, she frightened 2 little kids and they started crying and chai, the noise eh. God have mercy!

Funny enough, this woman had 3 kids who just kept staring at her like she'd run mad or something. I'm not sure the oldest kid was more than 16yrs.

Sermwell: Pix or it doesn't happen!

iya ayi: I see fellow passengers pilfer items like cutlery, blanket, from d airline. When challenged, they claim that they have paid for it alongside d ticket

bobby7me: Ehnn.. When I was traveling to NYC yea...
The plane driver told the conductor to serve us akpu & black soup. Trust nigerian guys, they were all smiling. Me I just open the window for fresh air because I don't eat such smelling thing.
Even when we got to Arik airport in NYC yea...
Queen Elizabeth took me to her house for a dinner. Her maids are Angels with wings flying around the castle.

Guidette: I just travelled 2 days ago on a flight to London. i think there were only 2 Nigerians like me on the flight and the rest were mostly British. i experience the periodic farting.... it was horrible. I think Oyinbo mess is worse than any other type of mess i have experienced in my life *pukes*
I also experienced the drinking thing too. An oyinbo lady sitting beside me drank nearly 8 bottles of the small wines they serve on BA. It got so bad that she went to sleep, woke up 2 hrs later and was nearly delirious. It took the intervention of 2 of the flight attendants to calm her down. They took her to the back of the plane and she disappeared for an hr. When she returned, I saw another 2 bottles of wine in her hand

So please don't generalise.... Nigerians are not the only ones that do things like that. You need to travel other routes and see that human beings of all races and creeds are the same everywhere.

joaquin64: LMAO @ sitting ovation. Some even stand! I totally forgot all about that one and that used to piss me off a lot when i used to fly in Nigeria looooool. The clapping just resonates from no where... like "yaaay we made it". I wouldnt blame them in Nigeria anyways where flying is akin to taking a death leap and praying through the fall you dont die. Flying is supposed to be the safest form of transportation with little or no hazard at all but with the terrible way our avaiation industry has handled the system... well, you have no choice but to pray and give an ovation at the end of a journey if you made it alive. lol.

Oh yeah and another terrible group of people (this one happens allover the world not just Nigeria) are those ones that before the wheels of the plane even touches the ground, they are up already struggling to take their bags from the overheads because they are in a hurry and everyone else isnt. Totally forgetting there is just one exit and there are others in front of them (first class/biz class people) that would still step out of that plane before them anyway whether they like it or not! Most of these annoying people are ALWAYS economy class and mostly even sitted at the back of the plane! lol

martyns303:
Although -ve G is most discomforting due to barotrauma, which is why airlines descend at 300ft/min max, some people really find +G as discomforting as well, no matter how many times they fly, they just can't get used to it, and also being an elderly woman, what you could have done was talk her through it, instead of assuming she's being local.

bravedude:


Broda don't say that,there are some shaking that will make you panic.I do fly 10hrs non stop without much anxiety but when ever i am on a local airline,my confident turns into a different thing.Don't blame it on the woman but have the blame on our aviation because u don't expect her to remain calm with all the plane crash history.

zube01: 1. Securing beds...in Economy Class! There's a game Nigerian passengers play whenever they're on-board a semi-full airplane - It's kind of similar to Musical Chairs...but without the music. Passengers snub the seats assigned to them and scout for a stretch of three to four empty seats before take-off. Handbags and other luggage items are strategically placed on empty seats in the hope for that Business Class experience - pathetic.

2. Making dramatic Nollywood scenes. Whoever said 'Rules are meant to be broken' must have been a Nigerian. We're pretty damn good at breaking rules...into smithereens, just for good measure. There was one woman sat at the front of economy class with her less-than-a-year-old baby. She put her baby down on the empty seat next to her when the seat belt light was off (not sure if that's proper in the first place but I'll let her off on that one). The moment the seat belt light was back on, however, one of the air hostesses called her to order and told her to strap her baby in place - RED ALERT! RED ALERT! MAY DAY! MAY DAY! You knew from the way the irritated mother turned her neck with that 'oh-no-you-didn't' expression all over her face that cabin pressure was under serious threat. Needless today she told the air hostess to mind her own business - ironically, that's what the air-hostess was trying to do in the first place...Safety of passengers...DUH! I can't remember if the thud I heard later on was due to turbulence or because the baby had rolled off the chair...

3. Taking pictures. You can imagine trying to enjoy a good book when suddenly the corner of your eye picks up the flash photography of some newbie whose obviously hell-bent on convincing everyone back in Nigeria that he/she indeed travel abroad. Newsflash! There may be people with photosensitive epilepsy on-board or nearby pilots wondering if there is a terrorist hijacking, with one unfortunate Nigerian who decided to break one simple rule 'DON'T MOVE!' (go figure!)

4. Farting. It's bad enough you left your assigned seat at the front and decided to come behind me and stretch yourself across four empty seats. Now you're so generous as to share your flatulence with me in small doses of ammonia-laced farts...not a one-off...periodic discharges which could catch choke me unawares if I dare yawn. FYI, avoid fizzy drinks on the plane if you know you can't handle your abdominal tract like few pros among us.

5. Drink to stupor. Is it the sheer pettiness of wanting to get one's money's worth that would make a passenger drink like a fish? (Remember, its Nigerians we're talking about here). Of course, it's not the drinking that bothers me but the mindless banter and laughter at completely 'unfunny' things that drives me up the Berlin wall (just like that - after a couple of drinks you'd be in stitches when you read 'drive me up the berlin wall').

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'.

Snoggy: This particular Lady kept taking pictures like a mad person.
Like 10 times...

I was ashamed sef!

kulyie: me i am guilty of this one o i always do that the last time we travelled and landed,while people were still clapping,me i was removing my luggage from the head overs,remain small that my box will fall on top of the head of the man sitting beside me.may God forgive me

Aigbofa: None of the things you wrote is peculiar to Nigerians, even the 'landing' ovation.

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