The inconveniences of air travel can range from mildly annoying to catastrophic, whether it’s flight cancellation or an endless queue for screening. Fortunately, kind Reddit users joined together and asked airport employees, including longshoremen and flight attendants, to share life hacks, so to speak, from the original source.
These tips will help you better reschedule your next flight.
You can avoid paying for the use of a luggage trolley if you find an empty trolley left by someone at the entrance to the terminal. If you return it to its place later, you will also receive a penny.
Remove the batteries from electric toothbrushes and other appliances before packing them. Vibrating suitcases have repeatedly caused an emergency landing of an airplane due to safety concerns.
If you have lost something, check all the lost and found offices without exception. In the security service, in the airport police and each airline has its own.
Everything that lies in the lost and found office for more than 90 days is then distributed. So if you really need something, such as a specific phone charger, just ask. Surely there will be at least one such unclaimed one within 90 days, and they will simply give it to you.
Instead of putting small items and jewelry in a separate tray during their screening, it is better to put them in a jacket pocket or jacket or in a separate bag. This will free up space on the conveyor belt and speed up the process of passing a safety check.
In order not to pay exorbitantly for a bottle of water, take an empty bottle with you and fill it when you go through security.
Some security services, for example in the United States, allow you to take bottles of drinks with you if this drink is frozen to a solid state and is not formally a liquid.
Ask the stewardess for a full can (package) of the drink you ordered. Most likely, they will give it to you.
Give the flight attendants chocolate. Flight attendants bring sweets to each other when they are not flying for work. They may mistake you for a colleague and serve you better on board. In any case, they will be pleased.
If the flight is canceled or more tickets are booked for it than there are seats, call the airline’s hotline instead of getting in an awfully long queue. A customer service representative can do the same as an employee in the terminal. You can queue up and call at the same time to speed up the problem solving process.
Bring an extension cord with you. You will have additional outlets, and someone will definitely want to get to know you.
It may not work, but it’s worth a try: turn your computer’s clock back a bit to extend the validity of free Wi-Fi.
Include your flight number in the car reservation so that the representative of the car rental company knows if your flight has been delayed and when to expect you.
There is such a website — seatguru.com where, based on the feedback from previous passengers, you can see which seat is best on a particular plane.
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