This is one of the busiest travel periods of the year in the U.S., where they're celebrating the Thanksgiving long holiday weekend. And with Christmas fast approaching - there's now less than a month before the big day - things will be picking up at Pearson International Airport, too.
But getting there isn't always half the fun. Travelling by plane can not only be increasingly expensive but exceptionally annoying.
And according to a new survey, it's not just the dwindling services and surcharges provided by the airlines that are bugging most of us as we fly the sometimes not-so-friendly skies.
A new survey from
TripAdvisor, a website that promises unbiased reviews of hotels and vacations, shows what's bugging your fellow luggage-luggers the most is their fellow passengers.
A good 83 per cent of the more than 1,000 air travellers asked believe people have become ruder over the past decade and a lot less considerate of the feelings of others.
Their biggest beef - parents who let their kids run wild at airports and on planes.
"The people travelling with kids and the people travelling without them tend to be equally vocal about how annoying the other group is," admits the site's Michele Perry. "Perhaps it's due to more kids flying during the holidays - or, rather, more parents unaccustomed to flying with their kids taking to the air."
The runner up complaint is something you may well have experienced, although you don't have to be on a plane to notice it.
Anyone who's ever taken the TTC on a hot summer day knows this one pretty well. It's those who don't tend to their hygiene in close quarters.
Bad body odour was cited by 54 per cent of passengers as being their personal pet plane peeve - especially when they're stuck beside an offender for hours at a time.
Then there's that other scourge of modern times - people yakking at the top of their lungs on a cell phone while rushing to catch their flights. It's one of the reasons most don't favour allowing the devices to be freely used on planes, although the technology is already available.
Among the other notable nightmares cited in the study:
-A man who began clipping his toenails while sprawling on the floor at the gate.
-Nine coach passengers who took their seats in first class, claiming they believed it was 'first come, first served' seating, causing a 49 minute delay while they argued with flight personnel.
-A man who spent the entire time in the air picking scabs off his bald head.
-A passenger who thought nothing of loudly passing gas on the plane. "Hello, you can't open the windows!" notes one upset flyer.
-And a traveller on a sold-out flight who packed leftovers into a bag stored in an overhead container that leaked down onto the captive passengers sitting underneath.
With the airlines already in dire straits financially and many flirting with bankruptcy or mergers, it's not the best way to travel and those behind the lighthearted survey hope you'll think about others the next time you get on board.
Because the one thing you don't need when your travel plans are already up in the air is having to go from soar to sore.
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