Folk heroes should not break federal aviation laws.
Period.
Have a peaceful sit-in, write letters, sky dive off a sky-scraper; make your point; but, do not, and I repeat, do not mess with a commercial flight.
Period.
You don’t yell “fire” in a theater; and, you don’t get on the intercom on a commercial jet and cuss out passengers – that is not your place, that is the airline’s. You yell on a plane, today, motherfucker, and you could get tackled and beaten – and, that’s just my first response. I haven’t even used the seat belt buckle on your stupid head, yet.
Who hasn’t sat in front of or next to a crying, out of control kid? A smelly person. Noisy person. Someone eating weird foods like duck claws (the claws aren’t so bad, but it’s that sucking, elastic sound….)
And, what about overly happy and chirpy flight attendants? Do we need rhymes for instructions? Or, low budget comedy routines? It’s almost like the Jungle Ride at Disneyland.
It’s hard to travel by air – for everyone.
Planes are sacred to everyone in the world today and only the lowest, most disgusting, self serving idiot like the disgruntled flight attendant would do something to terrorize any passenger, unless, of course, the passenger was the terrorist himself – then you just kick the snot out of him.
Can’t handle the job? Get some help. In the wrong job? Fake it, or get out.
Period.
This was not a statement, it was a meltdown.
Period.
While Hollywood can do this in a movie and get some laughs, the idea that this really happened is beyond me.
It’s too bad he didn’t through the passenger off the plane and then pelt her with the beers.
I love JetBlue just like I do other airlines; not at all. I think what the guy did was wrong, but glad he did it. We need to get the pain out of the system as much as the financials.
I think this is the only site I’ve seen that said the guy was wrong - I applaud you! The guy was wrong and the only people happy about his infamy are Lindsay Lohan and some high paid insurance guys and bankers.
What a breath of fresh air you are. What kills me is that if this had been an irate passenger instead of a steward, 15 FBI agents would have swarmed and tasered him and his butt would be sitting in a federal prison, not out partying with Barry Manilow and hiring a press agent. It’s heroic for an airline employee to put people’s lives in danger because he’s pissed off? Howard Beale my butt.