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The easiest way to do this is to click your fingers to get their attention. It's the most annoying passenger trait of all, according to a new survey of 700 air stewards carried out by Skyscanner.
Next, try nattering through the safety demonstration, and then asking for more blankets and pillows.
Make sure you cram too many bags into the overhead locker, and then complain that there's no space for your hand luggage.
There's a lot more you can do to irritate them besides this. Demand a specific brand of drink, and ring the attendant bell to complain about the temperature.
Oh, and at the end of the flight, make sure you stand up from your seat at before the seatbelt sign is switched off.
The list of irritating passenger habits is long and detailed - and it begs the question: is there anything we can do that will actually make cabin staff happy? According to the survey, the most perfect passenger of all is male, travelling for pleasure rather than business, in his 30s, and flying alone. Which means the majority of us have irritated them before we've even got on the plane...
How many of the traits above are you guilty of? And what annoys you most about cabin crew? Tell us below!
Silliest ever passenger requests
- 'Please can you open the window?'<p> Yes, according to a survey of <a href="http://travel.aol.co.uk/tag/Virgin+Atlantic/" target="_blank">Virgin Atlantic</a>'s cabin crew, this is the most frequent mad request they get... seems that a worrying number of us have a lot to learn when it comes to the basic science of aviation...</p>
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- "Please could you not disturb the Queen?"<p> Speaking about their weirdest passenger requests to <a href="http://www.cabincrew.com/lifestyle/strange-but-true-weirdest-passenger-requests-revealed/1098" target="_blank">Cabincrew.com</a>, one steward said a passenger was worried about <a href="http://travel.aol.co.uk/tag/Heathrow+Airport/" target="_blank">Heathrow Airport</a> being so close to Windsor Castle as the plane was coming into London and asked if cabin crew could arrange for the planes not to fly over the castle in the future in case the Queen found it a nuisance. What a thoughtful flyer!</p>
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- "Can you fix my hair?"<p> One Virgin Atlantic crew member was asked by a very famous celebrity, who pressed their call bell, to fix their hair. The flight attendant agreed to the unusual request and headed back to the galley to get a hair brush, comb and small can of hairspray. When he returned armed with the hairdressing equipment, the star roared with laughter and explained it was the AIR they wanted fixed and pointed overhead! The poor steward turned on the air vent and crept back to the galley. Cringe...</p>
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- "Could you turn the engines down - they are too noisy."<p> Er, we're hoping the passenger was't serious about this request. Another passenger asked: "Please can the captain stop the turbulence?". </p>
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- "Could we take the scenic route?"<p> While flying into Nice in the <a href="http://travel.aol.co.uk/tag/south+of+France/" target="_blank">South of France</a>, one cheeky passenger asked a stewardess if the pilot could 'go a bit further down the coast so we can have a look at Monaco,' she told <a href="http://www.cabincrew.com/lifestyle/strange-but-true-weirdest-passenger-requests-revealed/1098" target="_blank">Cabincrew.com </a></p>
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- "Where are the showers?"<p> We know they have some <a href="http://travel.aol.co.uk/2012/05/01/virgin-atlantic-unveils-new-100-million-upper-class-cabin/" target="_blank">luxurious cabins</a> but we would have liked to see the face of the flight attendant who was asked by a passenger where they could take a shower on a Virgin Atlantic flight.</p>
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- "Can you take my children to the playroom?'"<p> A playroom, indeed. Sometimes, passengers appear to forget they're 30,000ft in the air.</p>
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- "Are there prettier flight attendants?"<p> One flight attendant told <a href="http://www.cabincrew.com/lifestyle/strange-but-true-weirdest-passenger-requests-revealed/1098" target="_blank">Cabincrew.com</a> about an elderly man flying from Australia who was disappointed that the flight attendants weren’t attractive and sexy enough. He complained and said: "They were much prettier in the adverts, so the flight has not lived up to my expectations".</p>
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- "Is there a Starbuck's on board?"<p> Yes, someone really did ask a Virgin flight attendant this question. </p>
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- "Why is there no phone signal?"<p> A stewardess told <a href="http://www.cabincrew.com/lifestyle/strange-but-true-weirdest-passenger-requests-revealed/1098" target="_blank">Cabincrew.com</a> that a traveller asked her: 'Why am I getting such a poor mobile phone signal? This flight is going to be really long and I’ll be bored if I can’t use my smart phone.' Oh dear!</p>
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- "Could you get my blanket from my suitcase?"<p> One steward told flight attendants' forum <a href="http://www.cabincrew.com/lifestyle/top-10-funniest-airline-passenger-complaints/1085" target="_blank">Cabincrew.com</a> that one cheeky passenger asked them to get his blanket. He said: 'I once got asked mid flight if I could nip down into the hold and get a passenger his blanket out of his suitcase. After a full description of the bag I then explained this wasn't possible, to which he insisted he was going to go instead.'</p>
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- "Can I book a massage for my Barbie doll?"<p> This request may have been understandable if it came from a three-year old. But it didn't. It came from a fully grown adult.</p>
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- "Can you help me find my glass eye?"<p> This strange request came from a passenger on another Virgin flight... we're still trying to find out if said object was ever found....</p>
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