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.
Frontier should just change their name to WorldStar and complete the transition
Defying the SCOTUS ruling about profanity and free speech, is it possible to disallow the verbal abuse in the flying tin can? Recently it bothers more than other passenger misbehavior.
No matter who you are or where you come from, you just can’t act like an A-hole on an airline flight. Period. I’m someone who could be called “ghetto” because of where I grew up but I’ve seen badly behaved first class Caucasians on video getting kicked off flights too. When you’re about to be sealed up in a tin can with a bunch of strangers 35,000 above the ground, everybody just needs to behave.
Put said types of thugs into prison. Word will get around to the thug crowd that you should never verbally or physically abuse airline employees or you’re going to the big house for a few years. Treat wild animals like wild animals.
@George Romey — If it was a white lady, wouldya call ’em a ‘thug’ too? Bonus points for de-humanizing rhetoric, calling other people ‘animals’… next time, amp-it-up to calling them ‘cockroachs’ and preparing your machetes, sir… *facepalm*
Threat looks real, it’s going to be treated as real. “I didn’t mean it” isn’t a defense.
Sell cheap ass fares, get cheap ass passengers.
There’s an entire group of people, perhaps 12 to 14% of our population, who just can’t figure out how to comport themselves as reasonable people. I always wonder WHY?
I was first to comment here and I said the guy is a weenie. I still say he’s a weenie, more than anything else. Not thug, gangsta, or any other (IMHO suspect) terms some folks here are calling him. His body language and facial expressions say young, perhaps shit for brains, inexperienced flyer. The aggression he shows is similar to that of a posturing preteen.
The fairly short Asian American flight attendant he’s mostly interacting with looks annoyed, inconvenienced, like someone dealing with a child or an imbecile. He does not look intimidated, or concerned about what this weenie will do next. The plane’s passengers look annoyed and perhaps a little entertained. They look anything but afraid of something physical happening. The dumbass more or less left the plane compliantly, even if he was still grumbling.
We all have seen other videos here of well dressed people who were not black, young, and male, and most seem to give off quaking murder vibes, even over smaller things. They act unpredictable, and you can tell the vibe they give off as seen by the flight attendants and other passengers being on edge and nervous. Not the case here.
Not thug, gangster, or whatever other ambiguously racist term you want to use in this case.
Young, shit for brains.
Weenie,. Weenie. Weenie.
Cheers!
Flying takes a person of good moral character otherwise they just be disqualified. And just take a greyhound bus.