Yes, they are. However Frontier Airlines is subject to FAA rules on Exit Row passengers. They must agree to assist other passengers and the attendants in an emergency requiring egress through the emergency door on the row(s) where they are seated. They don’t agree- they have to get off or be reseated. Flight was fully seated, and no other available— so, the Pilot (amazingly but Federally correct) came back and asked her to leave, supporting his flight crew. And ordered cops as he did finally ask her.
Thus- requiring de boarding of the plane, when, if she had done what was asked (and she surely knew that people heard her say she was going to save herself. And also hear her call the Flight Attendant Chief “Betty White” as a white female Chief. So this was a serious needless racial attitude. Hope they tested her alcohol level. Testing her entitled level is off the charts.) Note that fellow blacks near her seat said— get off so we all don’t have to.. etc.
Really dumb person, raising her mouth and being a bigot against the Chief Attendant. You sit on that row- you bear extra responsibility in an emergency. That is Federal Law not just regulations. FReepers who flew nearly all their careers know this as concrete fact. Too bad the dumbA@@ couldn’t have just gotten off, then they all would not have had to de-plane. Annoying as hell kow towing to BS. The Attendants heard her, and what she said. She did not agree to serve. Not a good case for her to try and make.
That's the part I don't understand. The cops could just come on board the aircraft, remove the loudmouth criminal, and send everyone else on their way.
“They don’t agree- they have to get off or be reseated. Flight was fully seated, and no other available....”
That’s the part that I don’t understand. In that whole cabin, couldn’t the flight crew have quickly found ONE person who was willing to change seats with her and was willing and able to assist with an emergency exit?
My impression from the photo is that she had an aisle seat, so maybe she wouldn’t agree to exchange with middle or window. Even so, somebody with an aisle seat should have figured out that switching would get them to their destination a lot more quickly.
I do hope she won a place on the no-fly list for her trouble.
” They must agree to assist other passengers and the attendants in an emergency requiring egress through the emergency door on the row(s) where they are seated.”
I have never seen nor been advised of that requirement.
“Yes, they are. However Frontier Airlines is subject to FAA rules on Exit Row passengers. They must agree to assist other passengers and the attendants in an emergency requiring egress through the emergency door on the row(s) where they are seated.”
The reason you won’t cite the regulations is that you know you are wrong.