Plane etiquette is already a contentious issue, and things have seemingly only gotten worse after a few years of minimal air travel. Take disembarking, for instance: Typically, everyone agrees that you disembark in the order of where you were sitting, so those at the front get off first, and those at the back of the plane get off last (assuming everyone is leaving via the front of the plane, that is).


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Some people just love to violate that social contract, however, which is how we get videos like this of people “speedrunning” to get off planes — i.e., jumping out of their seats as soon as the seatbelt sign is switched off, running up the aisle before anyone else has gotten the chance to stand up and going so far as to ask people in front of them to move so they can get closer to the exit.



The only thing that would justify this kind of speedrunning is if you had a tight connection, and often in those cases, you can alert the flight attendants ahead of time and they’ll make an announcement asking other passengers to let people who need to disembark quickly do so first.


Redditors were in pretty near universal agreement that this kind of behavior is obnoxious. One person noted, “During COVID, they counted off the rows nearest the exit, it was organised and you could clearly tell how long you'd be waiting, so if you were like row 26, you could carry on watching Netflix for 10 minutes. Way more civilised.” which honestly does sound pretty chill and less like something out of The Hunger Games.


Others wondered why this person felt compelled to share the video in the first place: “Not sure why this guy’s apparently proud of this? Like ‘HEY LOOK AT MY INABILITY TO REGULATE MYSELF. I DO NOT HAVE PATIENCE.’ Either that or he thinks he’s genuinely informing us of his POV, like he thinks we care?” Perhaps he was going for a world record and wanted to share his time, although the video cuts off before he actually disembarks so we have no idea how long it took him to actually get off the plane.


So it could very well be that he speedran to absolutely nowhere.