Most annoying types of airplane passengers?

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At 10,000 feet the guy who sat there blubbering and crying, blocking the exit door. Had to shove him out of the plane screaming his head off before we could all jump!

That's a very good list. All those things sum it up very well.

The forward bin squatter

If I pay to fly at the pointy end of the airplane, and if I board last, I still expect that the only bags in the overhead bins in front of the curtain will be those that belong to the other people that are flying in that part of the airplane. If I am seated in the front part of economy, I expect the bins to contain bags from the passengers in those rows. If I am seated in row 27, then I stow my briefcase in the bin above row 27. Sof if you are seated in row 27, you don't have to use the bins in 11, much less in row 1.

The salmon

Having been confronted with the bags of the forward bin squatter, the salmon will deposit his enormous valise in the next available space. Which is probably row 27. Upon landing, he will then insist on swimming upstream through the disembarking passengers so that he can retrieve that bag, rather than waiting until everyone else has disembarked and then going to fetch it. If your bag is 12 rows behind you, wait until everyone else is off the plane before retrieving it. Or alternatively, if you cannot possibly wait to deplane, then put it under the seat in front of you!

1. Arm rest hoggers.
2. People who do not watch their kids and/or do not make them behave so that the kid is kicking your seat or running around the aisles.
3. People with little disregard for your personal space when walking by your seat so they bump your arm, leg, etc.
4. People who sit next to you and bring everything, but the kitchen sink with them including food from McDs and you have little room.
5. People who sit next to you and insist on blabbing on and on to you whether you seem interested or not.
6. People who take 10 years to load their carry on luggage in the overhead bin.

The ones that try to take over the plane. Sorry folks no contest.

Has to be seat kickers for me. Nothing pisses me off more on a plane ride than someone kicking my seat.

Crying babies and annoying kids. I haven't flown enough, only about 6-7 times.

Besides all the annoying people, what gets to me the most is when their is someone with a cold sitting near you, coughing loudly. That really gets to me because and I start thinking about the recycled airconditioning and how I'm breathing in their germs.

You have the smoking ban to thank for that.

Without smoke in the cabin, airlines have been able to save fuel expenditure by cutting back on refresh rates of cabin air. So while you are spared the smell of tobacco, you are placed at significantly higher risk of airborne illness, and diminished O2 levels. Happy flying.

Snakes and terrorists and really heavy people. I get the strange sensation that things are unbalanced.

Come on! EVERYTIME I fly, people are always complaining! What they fail to realize is that, while they try to get their head out of the folds of their fat neighbor's neck, they're traveling at 600 miles an hour, seven miles above the ground! I find the fact that we can put tens of thousands of people into the upper atmosphere every day, nothing short of AMAZING!

Probably me since I've always been riveted by how the winged beasts soar but also how they plummet down to wingless pulverized infernos every now and then, in the past I have merrily point out each stage of flight commenting how extraordinary those rumbling sounds are in what they represent, they are keeping us airborne and turning us this way and that but that particular noise also reminds me of flight x which perished with a packed to the rafters cargo and the wreckage floated to the coast of x... great passenger to have next to you, no idea when I can fly again but I always expect to board a doomed voyage!

...the kind that are on the plane with you...I'd much rather they took the pets out of the cage and put them in the seats since I tend to get along better with animals than people.