News and notes from around the interweb:
- Providence, Rhode Island flight on board American Airlines wholly-owned regional PSA, so maybe passengers are being punished already? At least he didn’t ask for a predeparture beverage.
POV: youre on @AmericanAir flight watching a man get kicked off the plane for accidentally putting his bag in wrong bin
FA emphasized that he did not “conform & comply so he must be punished”
Flight 5644 do better. FIRE RANDI & apologize to this PAYING customer. pic.twitter.com/IoUqMMaj9R
— kenzie (@kenzieharms_) April 7, 2023
- Seattle suing construction firm because new international terminal was built and nobody checked to make sure it would actually fit 20 widebody jets.
The Port, which operates the airport, says the facility can currently take only 16 large aircraft at a time. …The letter states this leaves Sea-Tac “with an international-flight capacity problem that this project was originally intended to solve.” …The original 2014 budget was $344 million. But the Port expanded the scale of the facility over time and the pandemic added further costs, so that on opening the budget had ballooned to $968 million.
[According to Clark Construction,] “The current gate configuration is consistent with the Port-approved concourse study and meets the specifications and requirements per our contract,”
- This would be kind of cool.
This is like a regular airport lounge, except you need to solve a series of puzzles to leave, pic.twitter.com/F1vpgupZ3l
— AirportThings (@AirportThings) April 7, 2023
- For hotel guests who haven’t used the telephone before.
I was surprised to see instructions on how to use the phone in my #hotel room. pic.twitter.com/590F0YtqKC
— Aunt Benét: Judge & Jury (@AvQueenBenet) April 7, 2023
- Spirit Airlines flight attendant: ‘We don’t have any amenities. Because if we did, this is Spirit, and we would charge you.’ Gets passengers into it. When she says Spirit, they say charge you.
@cali.style.trucking gotta love the honesty. this shit is comedy!!! #spirit #spiritairlines #comedy #dfw #dfwairport #lol ♬ original sound – Erick - I guess the Delta Sky Club staff needed to make sure the 10 year old wasn’t non-revving. I would never restrain another parent’s kid unless they were placing someone in imminent danger (or placing themselves in imminent danger). If the kid walked past the credentials check in an airport lounge, I’d speak to the parents who were… entering the lounge with him.
@Delta if Alla here is employed after assaulting a ten year old at the MSP sky club just now I’m going to have some major reservations booking flights with you going forward pic.twitter.com/p8KU8yFkrr
— Terry (@swterry1) April 8, 2023
Us parents are both platinum and the child is silver. We fly delta exclusively and frequent the sky club every time we travel. We have multiple Amex reserve cards that allow us access. The child ran in past the entrance by habit. The agent on hand physically assaulted him.
— Terry (@swterry1) April 8, 2023
- Frontier passenger prevented from boarding flight over carry on… that fit in the sizer
@dyanavilla.tv Please make this go viral! The frontier front desk and supervisor were not cooperating with their guest. PLEASE HELP US GET THIS TO FRONTIER! #frontier #viral #flying #flight #carryon #personalitem #frontierairlines ♬ original sound – .
We’re subjected to unaccountable and arbitrary authoritarians from petty dictators like this every time we travel by air. We are not free people. Why are such horrible people so overrepresented in airline staff, with horrible and outrageous events often in the news on American, Delta, and United? It’s worth noting that there was a horrible story about Lufthansa staff last summer but they disciplined their employees and compensated the victims, while US travelers almost never receive such satisfaction for gross behavior by rude martinets.
Surely there has to be some kind of regulation that demands air carriers be responsible for the actions of their employees that appear to intentionally harass or defraud a customer, ie, the situation with the Frontier customers whose bags clearly fit into the sizer with room to spare. Or the PSA (AA) flight where the passenger did nothing malicious, harmful, violent, or threatening by accidentally placing his bag in the wrong overhead bin. If, on each occasion of “passenger harassment”–which is clearly what it is!–the airline had to pay out, oh, $2500 or $5000 cash, I bet there would be a quick turnaround in this type of dictator wannabe behavior.
Apropos AA FA’s ““Conform And Comply So He Must Be Punished”: sure sounds like Gestapo is on board. Good thing those FA’s are not armed, or else there would be blood.
Agree on aggressively fining airlines for FA behavior. It would be difficult to implement but nevertheless necessary in view of the extreme behavior that FAs are exhibiting post-pandemic. Airlines need to be incentivized to push through the union bureaucracy and fire FAs much more frequently, even if it means worsening labor relations.
These power trips only happen at US airlines, the crews here are lazy AF yet need to satisfy their egos with the absolutely awful behavior. They need to get a life.
The F9 case, the girl removed the wheels of the carry-on, they emptied half of the contents of the other bags and of course the FIRST mention on the TV ‘report’ (in the totally left wing biased, dem funded media channel) if the ethnicity of the passengers. Dems always being the real racists.
And that’s exactly the line of all they release in the media.
And here I was thinking it wasn’t part of an AA FA’s duties to patrol proper use of the overhead bins…
Is there more info about what ACTUALLY happened on that AA Providence flight? How do we know what the pax did? The six second video doesn’t explain much of anything.
@BBK
Did you get your shorts twisted this morning? I’m sure everyone involved was thinking about politics, especially about whining Chump!
I thought they weren’t being paid while the door is open?
AA: File for bankruptcy NOW. Shred the union contracts then fire 20% of all FAs. Those who don’t want to get onboard with the nes way of doing things can be fired also.
Getting back to being “Something special in the air” starts with dismissing these losers.
Union contracts cannot be dissolved in bankruptcy.
How do you accidentally intentionally place a bag in a specific place?
I hope you know why FAs in America are so dumbed down. I won’t say why, but look at them.