“Preliminarily, it does not appear that the action taken by the flight crew was justified,” he said in a statement.”
I’ll bet it was justified.
Was the in-flight movie “Soul Plane?”
Typical New Yorkers - Arrogant, self absorbed, stupid, egotistical. It’s all about me. And before anyone says all teenagers are like that, I flew from Atl to Seattle with about 100 teenages from several soccer teams several years ago. When I saw them I thought “Oh Crap.” But as it turned out they didn’t make any excessive noise and behaved quite well.
Today’s youth (the growing majority) know nothing about how to be respectful and understand that the situation is not about their minimal little concerns - but there are others that depend on order to get where they are going...life lesson one taught - I wonder how many of them get it?
I have been on a flight with people standing while the seat belt sign was on and the airplane was taxiing. The pilot hit the brakes and people went flying.
These punkass punks shouldn’t have been given anything other than a reroute and a stern warning. Shame on Airtran for rewarding their bad behavior.
And the offending students should have been the ones taken off and left to get to their destination on their own.
I probably wouldn’t want to be on a flight where 100 of the 137 seats were taken by high school seniors. A real potential for behavior not suitable for air travel.
I’ve recently been delayed because fellow passengers would not put their cellphones away. The other passengers were forced to wait while these bozos texted away. Very rude.
As far as I am concerned, if you are responsible for delaying a flight you need to get the boot.
Perhaps this will be the start of a new practice.
The Captain determines what is justified and what is not.
This is actually a developing trend in the New York area.
Wonder how much that flight cost Southwest?
kids
sit down and shut the hell up
“Not misbehaving that badly” doesn’t mean squat if they aren’t putting their cell phones away.
You can buy cell phone zappers for not a lot of money. It’s illegal but surely they can create an exception for flight safety. They can; And don’t call me “Shirley”
Noo Yawkahs. They are the reason that so many people outside the USA have a bad opinion of Americans. I recently went on a two-week European cruise, and whenever I witnessed someone being rude, obnoxious, or petty during one of the tours, it was almost always a Noo Yawkah.
Living in FL, I come across these jerks often. They are always talking about how great Noo Yawk is and how nobody else knows how to do anything right. If I weren’t so polite, I’d ask them why they are here instead of in their beloved Rotten Apple.
Oy vey!
I love Southwest Airlines. Good move.
“but that he believed adults on the trip who said the students weren’t behaving that badly.”
They were misbehaving...just not that badly. Apparently, the pilot disagreed.
I know the type. The rules are for other people, not them.
The adult chaperones said “the students weren’t behaving that badly.” I’m sure when you live with poor behavior 180 days in the year in the school, you don’t notice that bad behavior outside the school.
How long before someone accuses the flight crew of anti-Semitism?