Passenger Endures 11-Hour Flight Where Everyone 'Rawdogs' Due To Failure Of In-Flight Entertainment

On an extended flight, how do you pass time? Do you like to read a book, watch an in-flight movie, listen to a podcast, or browse your phone while in flight? However, all of it is eliminated by a recent trend in travel. Greetings from “rawdogging," but not in the way you may know it. This strange new craze started with young males on the internet who chose to sit with their thoughts or look out the window for their whole journey instead of using any kind of in-flight entertainment. Recently, a YouTuber has claimed that during an 11-hour trip, the entire aircraft was made to “rawdog" when the screens closed.

The best that passengers could do was flick their displays to a little map that indicates the duration they still had to board the aircraft. While they attempted to reset the screens to see if that would help, the YouTuber said that there was a “total blackout" almost four hours into the journey. He couldn’t even sleep on the trip since a co-passenger who was reading a book using light.

In his clip, which showed a large number of people with nothing to do except gaze at a screen that was blank other than the phrases asking them to be patient, he described hours five and six as the “please wait" part of the torture session. Then he said that once the displays were reset, they only displayed the airline’s logo for a few hours, and that his neighbour “had a reading light on that was brighter than the sun" as he was trying to catch some sleep.

He said some travellers had little choice but to rawdog their journey, others did have some activities to keep them occupied. However, he and his wife were spared the pain of having to rawdog with everyone else since they packed books and downloaded movies. In a remark, he clarified that they “watched four episodes of House of the Dragon and then a slew of movies."

A user commented, “This happened on my delta flight from Atlanta to Rome. 9 hour rawdog. Food was good tho." Another user said, “Thats why I bring books on my flights. Or notebooks to write in. And I had a little light that was a lot dimmer than the plane reading lights that I could attach to my stuff."