Comments on: Black Eye, Handcuffs, And A Barf Bag: Elderly Granny’s Fight With Flight Attendant Ends In Arrest

By: jns

jns — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 01:25:54 +0000

There should be a requirement for flight attendants to show their identifying number, same as police, who are also there for your safety. Are there any videos? Maybe flight attendants should be required to use body cams like the police are. The videos would help determine of her story has validity. I would like to see the flight attendants testifying in court while being cross examined by a competent plaintiff lawyer. I wonder how good they are at lying and if they would stick together.

By: Dignity

Dignity — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 01:15:37 +0000

I’m surprised a career airline employee, whose late husband was a pilot, handled it so indelicately.

Why? Should I surprised that a career writer (that's you, Gary) makes a ton of typos in published work? Should anyone be surprised that I, a Vault 50 biglaw partner in NYC who made 8 figures last year, has time to post in the comments section of what is ostensibly a miles-and-points (read: budget travel) blog? I also hit the gym 3x weekly, cook dinner most nights, and sleep an average of 7.5 hours a night. I also protect my associates from burning the midnight oil. Newsworthy events, or lawsuitworthy events, are going to contain elements of surprise. If they didn't, they wouldn't have been newsworthy. -- In any case, don't leave trash in the galley unattended. Etiquette aside, it's a safety issue to have something unsecured that could turn into a projectile during turbulence in the crew work area. If the crew become injured, that's bad news for the entire planeload of passengers who depend on the crew foremost for safety. If you as a passenger have trash that's not collected by a flight attendant roaming the aisle with a trash bag, just take it to the lavatory and throw it in the trash there. Now if JetBlue is serving tea in actual drinkware and reusable spoons, that is news to me. Proper approach would be to hand it to a flight attendant in the galley or elsewhere onboard instead of setting it down in a spot not clearly designated for it. Shame on the crew for confrontational behavior, let's not forget that, I hope the passenger is awarded a handsome judgment.

By: Christian

Christian — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 01:09:55 +0000

Gary, your creepy AI images are really getting creepier. I now actually avoid your posts that have the AI generated images. I made an exception on this one because it was so outlandish that someone had to say something. As a reader and commenter for something like 15 years, please please please stop. Or at least ask your readers. Maybe it’s like you and feet, just a personal idiosyncrasy but I really think it needs to end.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:47:28 +0000

More to the story? Maybe she worked for American Airlines, where no matter how blatantly obviously wrong. Employee is, or former employee in this case, and no matter how much evidence is against them, they are still unconditionally 100% right. 100% of the time? She was expecting this kind of protection from the airline industry because that’s how they do their employees? Except that she forgot that the same unconditionally right affirmation of airline employees, favors the current employee over the previous one because the current one is entitled to such blatant protections!

By: CHRIS

CHRIS — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:44:00 +0000

So this lifelong air-hag was on the receiving end of her “service”. I wonder if they told her that they were only here for her safety and not tea service. The mergers a shame really, the NK crews would have fit in pretty well.

By: Gregg Lane Bender

Gregg Lane Bender — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:06:30 +0000

There has to be more to this story than was in the article.