JetBlue redeye flight 2858 from Phoenix to Fort Lauderdale sent a message ahead on Friday night that a passenger in seat 5C in the business class ‘Mint cabin’ was engaged in hand-to-gland combat with Palmela Handerson.
Flight crew gave the man a ‘yellow ticket’ and noted that he was “Mosaic 4,” the airline’s top elite status level, and asked the ground team whether police or security would meet the aircraft. The Airbus A321 landed in Fort Lauderdale at 4:53 a.m.
/FB 0243/AD KFLL/N 34.706,W106.108,JBU2858,SOMO3,PASSENGER IN 5C MINT,IS MASTURBATING,IN FLIGHT GAVE HIM A,YELLOW TICKET,HE IS A MOSAIC4,PLEASE INFORM BLUE,WATGH ETC AND LET ME,KNOW WHAT THE PROCEDURE,WILL BE WHEN WE LAND,I.E. POLICE OR SECURITY
Via FlightDeck app:
Crew or another passenger noticed the conduct. He was issued a written warning (“yellow ticket”). Crew escalated it to JetBlue operations. Blue Watch is the airline’s 24/7 security desk. The flight continued normally – so the conduct was deemed serious enough to document and escalate, but not urgent enough for a diversion.
The Mosaic 4 detail is what makes this. It’s the highest published status tier. But what he was doing is decidedly not an elite benefit. It is not immediately clear why elite status is included along with public sexual misconduct. Ultimately, this is highly inappropriate but seeing it written as an ACARS message, cold and clinically, is also awesome.
Some of my favorite comments:
“As long as it is less than 100ml”You don’t get to do that until they create a new Mosaic 5
“Sir, I need to gatecheck your oversized … item.”
“If they didn’t let him finish, it’s now called JetBlueBalls.”
If you’re wondering what a situation like this is worth as another passenger, American Airlines says 5,000 miles. It’s much worse for the perpetrator. One American Airlines customer in a similar predicament found themselves investigated by the Joint Terrorism Task Force.
Here’s another American Airlines first class passenger caught urinating and ‘flicking the bean’ after downing reportedly 9 jack and cokes.
Another American Airlines first class passenger was caught watching porn. A United Airlines business class passenger was, also. (An Etihad pilot once wrote up the inflight wifi over an inability to download porn.)
(HT: One Mile at a Time)
What a jerk…
The status is not to excuse him… it is sometimes used to make the company aware of as much information as possible..
Probably asked for some tissues, which the flight attendant didn’t want to supply.
I’ve done this flight a few times in Mint… he could have at least done it in a THRONE seat (row 2 or 4). This is disgusting… at least go to the lav or get an FA to help you like on some airlines (Delta, cough, Delta)
Did he just whip it out and slap it?
I mean who saw him and said put it away?
Who was sitting in 5a. I mean he was not even in a window seat
@Jim LeJeune — Zing!
FFS. stop calling police for non violent activities. And if this guy is MOSAIC4 that means he is a big revenue driver. Stupid flight attendants should be fired if they can’t bear to watch somebody have a harmless good time.
Mosaics get on early, and get off whenever they want.
Flying OPM domestic is a sad lifestyle.
Gotta get off somewhere in between meetings and power points
@Mantis — Zing!!
Was he flying to San Diego?
“Jackin’ it, jackin’ it, jackety-jack…Spankin’ it, spankin’ it, smackety-smack… A-whackin’ it, whackin’ it, whackety-whack… Spankin’ it, jerkin’ it, smackety-smack…”
Was he using assistance or was it just from memory? A casualty of airlines removing blankets otherwise there could have been cover up.
Too bad Lorena Bobbit wasn’t on board
“MOSAIC4” those JetBlue status numeric designations confusing like the cryptic pmUA…is 1 the best or worst?
‘2P’ = Premier’ but the lower number ‘1P’ = the higher status Premier Executive
And ‘1K’ = the even higher status 100K Premier Executive, but apparently the ‘1’ is short for 100, not ‘1’ like the ‘1P’
Is a Yellow Ticket on Jet Blue like a Red Card in soccer or a penalty flag in the NFL? Give him a penalty seat near the rear lav.
Red state to red state trash flight. What do you expect?