Snoring co-passengers top the list of pet peeves of Indian travellers on a flight, followed by loud passengers and inattentive parents who don’t pay any attention to their misbehaved children.

The findings were put forth by the ‘Expedia Passenger Preferences Index’ survey, which was conducted on behalf of online travel portal Expedia and Northstar between December 11 and 29, 2015, across North America, Europe, South America and Asia Pacific.

The study was conducted among 11,026 adults across 22 countries who have flown on an airplane in the past two years. It analysed in-flight behaviour and preferences of Indians, besides taking into consideration amenities that customers prioritise on flights of different lengths, how they prefer to pass time on board, their opinion on baggage fee and packing, and which passenger behaviours they found most frustrating.

Though inattentive parents, ‘who have no control over or pay no attention to their crying, whining or misbehaved children’, are on the top of things that frustrate Indian travellers, they are still more tolerant than travellers from Mexico, Norway, New Zealand (42 per cent), who are most intolerant towards such behaviour.

Other types of co-passengers that irk Indians the most are passengers who constantly kick the seat in front of them, those with poor hygiene or those who wear too much perfume, disruptive passengers who have enjoyed a few drinks too many, those who talk loudly or turn the volume on too loud. Also, Indian travellers don't like neighbours who strike up a conversation and refuse to stop, those who recline their seat all the way back, neighbours who occupy both the armrests, passengers who bring on board food with a strong smell, passengers on the window seat who make frequent visits to the washroom, those who grab the back of your seat to get up, passengers who removes shoes and socks or too many layers of clothing and, lastly, couples who display too much public affection.

Indians, who seem to prefer air travel to be comfortable, are also ready to shell out more to ensure comfort for longer flights.

“According to Expedia Passenger Preferences Index, a massive 74 per cent of travellers will pay for added comfort on a short-haul flight. The number further jumps to 89 per cent on long or extra-long haul flights. Indians lead globally in paying extra for a window seat (34%) or an aisle seat (10%), for a snack (36%) and a non-alcoholic beverage (16%) on board a short-haul flightsaid Mr. Manmeet Ahluwalia, Marketing Head, Expedia (India).