Survey On The Most Annoying Fellow Plane Pasengers

Just The Flight, a flight booking website, asked 5,000 people on what type of person they disliked sharing a flight with most. The results came up with 21 reasons, with those that smell and seat kickers topping the list.

59 percent of those surveyed revealed that people that smell are on top of their most hated flyers list. A total of 54 percent said passengers who kick their seats were the worst, while 53 percent also cited 'incredulous parents' as the most irritating people to fly with.

Other unpopular flyers on the list include crying children, and people who are rude to flights attendants. 'The drunk' a.k.a. the reason why there were dozens of flight diversions in 2015 also placed sixth on the survey. People who recline their seats, passengers who clap when the plane lands and queue jumpers were also named among the worst travellers.

Here's the complete list of the results of the survey:

1. People that Smell - 59 percent
2. Seat Kickers - 54 percent
3. Incredulous Parents - 53 percent
4. Crying Children - 41 percent
5. People Rude to Flight Attendants - 37 percent
6. The Drunk - 36 percent
7. PeopleThat Recline Their Seats - 30 percent
8. People Who Steal Your Armrest - 27 percent
9. People That Encroach on Your Seat - 24 percent
10. People That Clap After Landing - 20 percent
11. The Stag Do 'Lads' - 20 percent
12. Queue Jumpers - 19 percent
13. People Who Play Music Loudly - 15 percent
14. The Passive Aggressive Complainer - 12 percent
15. People That Remove Their Socks - 12 percent
16. People That Eat Smelly Food - 11 percent
17. The Faffer - 11 percent
18. Overhead Locker Hogs - 10 percent
19. Mr. Chatty Man - 8 percent
20. The Nervous Flyer - 3 percent
21. Frequent Toilet Users - 1 percent

Frequent toilet users (1 percent), nervous flyers (3 percent) and chatty passengers (8 percent) were found to be the least offensive, according to the survey.

Conducted last October, the survey was conceptualised after several people were reported to have been penalized for disorderly behaviour like last September when a man in the U.S. accidentally urinated on fellow passengers during a flight between Alaska and Portland.