How much time is actually gained by being a cunt and standing up/forcing foward? Has to be maybe 3 minutes? If you are going to miss your connection, that sucks and I have been there but STILL did not stand in the aisle and press forward. This is all not to mention the crowding of the aisle, should an emergency/medical issue for someone arise.
I feel the same way about those people as I feel about morons speeding and driving recklessly. Willing to put others at disadvantage and/or danger just to get where they want.
Nowadays when I travel for work, I try to put myself into an observer/people watching mindset so I can just enjoy the insane/hilarious shit that grown adults do in the airport/on the plane. Shit I would never even deign to consider doing in public/that situation, these folks will just flagrantly fuck over whomever they can to get even a scintilla of an upper hand. These are the same people that do not return their grocery carts in the parking lot. I don't want to sound like a demon, but I would be fine with these folks going to reeducation camps to learn how to abide by the social contract.