'Disturbing' video of passenger giving foot massage during flight goes viral for all the wrong reasons

A video that shows one passenger giving another a foot massage during a flight has gone viral on Instagram after being posted to popular page Passenger Shaming.

Plane travel has always been up there with the most stressful and tiring forms of transport. Quite apart from the hours on end spent sat in a small enclosed space with hundreds of strangers, there's the interminable waiting around in nondescript airport terminals clutching a hastily bought coffee and a makeshift breakfast comprising 1x packet of soft mints, 1x banana, 1x bottle of water and 1x BLT sandwich.

One plane passenger was caught on video using their feet to navigate the in-flight entertainment screen:

Inexplicably. we try and carry all of this - as well as the coffee - in our hands, rather than decant some to our carry-on bag, and it thus that we race to reach the gate, only to stand there quietly sweating for another hour before boarding.

What I'm trying to say, is that traveling on an airplane is a stressful and laborious undertaking. And that presumably goes double at the moment, as vast swathes of the world remains gripped in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic.

Perhaps this is why social media users seem to enjoy the Passenger Shaming Instagram page so much - a cathartic release from the frustrations of plane travel.

The most recent video posted to the page shows one passenger giving another traveler sat behind them a foot rub - barefoot.

And commenters online were left less than impressed by the footage.

One Instagram user wrote, "I can never un- see that. It’s so disturbing!" While another joked, "I wonder if she knew him or just thought she’d help him out. Gonna try this next flight."

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"I thought I had seen it all," a third commenter wrote.

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Although some commenters were in a bullish mood. "Not going to lie, I wouldn’t turn that down. Sorry not sorry." Wrote one, while a second added, "Meh. No biggy. Could be worse. Little jealous actually. Looks like that feels pretty good."

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Last year, a passenger was slammed for using their feet to try and navigate the in-flight entertainment screen. Comedian Andy Richter felt so outraged by his fellow passenger's actions that he decided to share his experience with his 1.1 million Twitter followers.

"So I snitched this f***er out to the flight attendant, who told him to put them down. Puts them back a few minutes later & I asked him to put them down. 'They’re your bare feet, man.'

"He was shocked & put them down. When he just put them back up I decided f**k it, I’m tweeting [sic]"