31 of the Wildest Things People Have Witnessed at the Airport

When it comes to air travel, most folks have their pre-flight regimen down pat — they make their way through security, flip through a three-month-old magazine at the bookstore and then drop $27 on a single beer. But this tried-and-true routine wasn’t enough for one traveler, so she decided to take certain matters into her own hands. 

In an attempt to speed up the boarding process, the frantic flyer broke onto a corporate airport’s “secure ramp area,” demanding she personally load her bags onto the aircraft. “By the time one of our line service guys saw her, she had the main entry door opened up on a Global XRS aircraft. When he pulled up, she looked at him and asked if he could help her get her bags onboard, when he told her he couldn’t, she told him she was going to fly the plane to China and didn’t want to be late,” Redditor chuchubott recalled of the incident, noting that after the occurrence, the boarding process became much more strict.

This China-bound passenger was far from the only one to amp up security with their antics — from $10,000 fines to sneaky stowaways, airport employees and vacationers alike have shared the wildest things they’ve witnessed at the airport.