MY TOP 5 IRRITANTS: AT AIRPORTS, ON PLANES AND IN HOTELS

摘要

It's that time of year. As Christmas approaches and a new year beckons, television and radio stations, news networks and social media sites come up with their annual 'Top 10s', 'Best of...' and 'Funniest...' listings and countdowns. So why should we be any different? Well, this is a serious journal and as such, aside from a few of our Air Watch listings - included to lighten up the mood on an otherwise somewhat dark subject matter - we avoid humour. It wouldn't be appreciated if we had Aviation Security International's 'Top 10 Hijackers' or 'Worst Airports for Security'. There may be acceptance of our highlighting the bizarre antics of the world's unruly passengers, perhaps even grading them for impact, but even there, whilst many of the stories are, with hindsight, amusing, for the crewmembers having to manage the incidents at the time there was little to laugh about.