NEW YORK, May 1 — The results of a new in-flight etiquette survey reveal that it’s never OK to go barefoot on the plane, and that the most annoying passenger is the one who sits behind us.
In the latest edition of Expedia’s annual Airplane and Hotel Etiquette Study, the seatback kicker emerged the most annoying in-flight passenger for the fourth year in a row, cited by more than half (51 per cent) of global respondents as the most offending in-flight behavior.
The poll was conducted among nearly 18,230 respondents across 23 countries around the world.
The annual survey serves as a handbook on in-flight etiquette and offers the do’s and don’ts of modern air travel.
After seatback kickers, grabbers and pokers, come flyers with poor, pungent hygiene, inattentive parents, flyers with no sense of personal space, and seatmates who blast the volume on their headsets.
90 per cent of global respondents agree it’s never OK to go barefoot during a flight, a message that will hopefully reach this particularly offender identified as #toegirl by an unfortunate victim to her barefooted wanderings.
