Trump campaign fact check: Armrests in first class seats did move

CNN Money ^ | 2016-10-14 | Jon Ostrower

[july4thfreedomfoundation]

A British guy came forward who was seated near Trump and this woman, and he said nothing happened.

The British man also said that when Trump went to the lavatory, the woman told the British passenger that she wanted to marry Mr. Trump.

[silent_jonny]

That was my point.

[philman_36]

The airline's Boeing 727-200 fleet was outfitted with what was known as its "Ultra" interior made up of 24 first and 104 coach class seats, according to documents reviewed by CNN from the Braniff Airways Foundation.

In 1977-78, with the introduction of all-leather interiors, Braniff ran the slogan "Fly in Leather." However, since Braniff flew to many Spanish speaking countries, this had to be translated into fly "en cuero" which actually translates to "fly in the nude with Braniff." Translation mixup or cunning marketing?

So there is your first class setup. Is the coach class what CNN has depicted as first class?
Still looking...

[Steve_Seattle]

If that is a photo of the type of armrest in that plane, it does not look to be of a fold-up design, even if it could be removed. And it is so large that it could not be removed without a lot of jostling of the adjacent passenger - it is not something that could be done “on the sly.” And once it was removed, where would you put it? It looks about eight-ten inches wide.

[Flick Lives]

The arm rest is *removable*, but not *pivotable*. You can pull the arm rest out of a socket. You would then have to stow the entire arm rest under the seat.

[philman_36]

In 1977, Braniff also dropped Pucci for designer Halston. Brown was in in the late 70's (as you can see). Braniff also outfitted ALL of its seats with leather. (They got the leather from Argentina, who couldn't pay some debts in cash). Halston also designed new hostess uniforms in brown with his signature "H" logo. Gate agents and male flight attendants received brown suits.

[HiTech RedNeck]

TAKE A PILL?!? TAKE A PILL?!? IT'S TIME FOR ME TO GET INTO A RIGHTEOUS REDNECK RAGE NOW!!! TAKE A PILL?!? Ok, ok, ok, ok...

[Flick Lives]

Hell. For that matter, the whole darn seat is removable on an aircraft. You can reconfigure must aircraft seating to alter the seat pitch or spacing between seats.

[HiTech RedNeck]

True.... FR can help with its Buckheads

[ponygirl]

I was just texting my mom and she is telling me Braniff did not fly Europe to US, so whatever their manual says doesn't matter anyway, they weren't flying Braniff.

My mother was working LAX to SFO early in the morning and Dennis Hopper and some woman with him were the only people in FC. She said he put the woman in his lap and they went at it under a blanket...no armrest removal necessary.

[Flick Lives]

You know the engines are removable on a jet too!

[ponygirl]

This is what my mom said about Braniff: [Braniff flew] “Only South America until 1979 then a Concorde interchange from Dallas to London and Paris and 747 Amsterdam Frankfurt Paris and Brussels. Bra totally ceased to exist 1993. Stopped operating 1984 reopened 1988 closed again in 1992 and closed for good 1994.”

[georgiegirl]

"she was ugly anyway". You know the Donald, he must speak the truth at all times:
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[McGruff]

CNN researching Trump’s 1979 plane seats but never mentions the words Juanita Broaddrick.

[georgiegirl]

Trump would have had to make a Herculean effort to remove the armrest while Jessica patiently waited. Woman, you could have slipped away to find a stew while he was wrasslin with that pesky armrest. And did you really say you were okay with hands on your upper torso, but the lower was too much?? You poor undefended maiden in distress!

"Oh hadst thou, cruel! been content to seize
Hairs less in sight, or any hairs but these!" ; D

[aumrl]

REMOVABLE

not raiseable

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

“So this Leeds chick was so freakin’ hot, that Trump pried up this armrest just to get to her”

In the pic I saw of her younger self, she was not “freakin’ hot” nor was she even “hot” and certainly not worth the effort of removing the armrest to get to her.

You don’t get it . . . Leeds is engaging in “locker room” talk for gals. Trump claimed his celebrity enabled him to get consent from a pretty girl for anything; Leeds claims her beauty was so stunning that Trump disassembled an airliner to get his hands on her. In each case the objective is to proclaim to members of the same sex as the speaker, “I can do what you wish you could do.”

In neither case is it necessarily so.

[tomkat]

So ‘reporter’ Jon Ostrower doesn’t know the difference between ‘movable’ and ‘removable’?

Oh come now .. he's a J school product .. some empathy for the handicapped, please !

[TheNext]

Did Hillary ever disavow the molestation of young girls??

[Strac6]

Yes, dumb dumb, they were removable. But they did not fold up between the seats like the arm rests in toutst class do these leather armrest where removable by pulling them straight up and putting them on top of an adjacent seat while they were cleaned or to accommodate and exceptionally fat or disabled passenger.