A little over a week ago, on February 27, a Frontier Airlines passenger flying from Las Vegas to Chicago told a flight attendant to ‘get out of my way’ – and crew treated it as a threat. This apparently started over a disagreement about overhead bin space. He’s using the bin for both his carry-on and for his personal item.
They felt threatened. The flight attendants. Because I told them to get out of my way?
- He drops an F-bomb in his description of the crew, and then draws an equivalence saying he feels “threatened right now” being talked to by the airline about his conduct.
- He debates what constitutes a threat: “Get out of my way. Ain’t no [..] threat. You know what a threat is?”
- And he offers to step to: “You look like you want to do something. Get it. Lie to me. If you know I want to do something, I’ll do it.”
The man from flight 2146 ultimately takes his items out of the overhead bin and resigns himself that he won’t be flying that day. Note that this video is both not safe for work – and not safe for work from home:
Belligerent guy on an airplane gets booted off
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Ultimately, taking an aggressive tone with crew, throw in a bunch of profanity and menacing body language, and things aren’t going to go well. He offers in defense “I didn’t make a threat.” That may be true!
The man took on a ‘fake tough guy’ persona, says he’ll do whatever he wants, and that somehow ended with him… obediently getting off the plane,
I usually like to draw a broader lesson from incidents like these, like the closing moral lesson of TV’s Lassie (‘You see, Timmy..’) and parodied by Timothy Stack in Son of the Beach. Here, though, the only lesson I can offer is that Frontier passengers are gonna Frontier.
What can I say? Lol…what a weenie.
Exactly why I would never fly Frontier or Southwest. Aka Ghetto Air.
Lower prices get you exactly this: a lower class of people
@Diane — Thinly-veiled… (would you use ‘ghetto’ if the passenger wasn’t… you know…)
I’d use the word THUG– no matter what color. Thug life rules these days. Look at tik/tok- read Reddit- Funny to act all tough and destroy others property because you don’t agree, or you don’t want to. It’s sad how low we’ve become.
@Claire — Why not go with ‘mafia’ in that case, unless, that’d offend the Italians/Russians, etc…
And off courses, this belligerent j** **f placed both his carry on luggage AND his smaller bag in the overhead bin. A sense of entitled usually goes along with being ignorant.
@Bill Dwyer — Wait, is ‘jag off’ now censorable? How’s ‘jabroni’ fit within this context? Apt?
@Diane says:
“Exactly why I would never fly Frontier or Southwest.”
While I agree with the rest of your comment, perhaps flying on the Section 8 EBT airlines should be looked at another way, for the silver lining, if you will: Think of it as free entertainment and the chance to bag some coin on Youtube from a viral video, if ya get lucky.
At least that’s how I look at it; in fact, I’ve specifically set myself for flyin’ Frontier, a wishin’ and a hopin’, keepin’ the camera at the ready because maybe, just maybe, one day I’ll hit the jackpot from the morons that are allowed to fly.
Always seems to be a certain demographic, doesn’t it?