FROM ANOTHER STORY:
“Olivia Morgan was standing in the doorway of the aircraft with her 8-year-old daughter waiting to board when the altercation happened.
“The flight attendant wrestled the stroller away from the woman, who was sobbing, holding one baby with the second baby in a car seat on the ground next to her,” she said.
Morgan said the flight attendant was “violent” when taking the metal stroller from the woman and nearly hit the baby with the stroller.
“He stormed by me with the stroller and I said something like, ‘What are you doing? You almost hit that baby!’ And he yelled at me to ‘stay out of it!’ just like he does in the video,” she said.
Morgan said she talked to the woman about the incident. The woman said a female flight attendant told her she could look for space to store the stroller because it folds up very small, but if there was no available space, she would need to check it at the gate.
“She was looking for space when the male attendant tried to take it away from her… and she said she told him the other attendant had told her it was okay to look,” she said.
According to the American Airlines website, small strollers can be checked at the gate but there is no policy about strollers in the overhead bin.”
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So it looks as if it was okay for her to have the pram on board.
First United Airlines... now this...
The passenger showed restraint I couldn’t have demonstrated. When that FA said “Go ahead, hit me” I’d have pounded his fat bald ass unconscious.
AA isn’t to blame here. This is the FA run amok. And you can take one thing to the bank, that FA’s UNION is SCREAMING at how unfairly their union member was treated. He’ll get a hearing, a hearing, a hearing on the hearings, a re-hearing, a hearing to condense the other hearings’ hearings, and a hearing before the NLRB on this hearings.
AA jumped on this one with both feet. The FA, we’ll call him Pudgezilla, has been removed from duty, the lady in question got upgraded to first class for the rest of her international trip, and I imagine some sort of cash compensation as well. They issued statements to the extent that they could given all of the union hearings that are cued up, and there will be directives and supplementary training within a week.
I have met sone of the most awesome, friendly, caring and unflappably professional FAs during my six years of near constant travel on Continental. I have personally witnessed boorish, unfeeling, my way or the highway behavior from FAs on UA and AA.
I’m headed from Chicago to Columbus, Ohio next week. I’m driving.
obviously this woman staged the whole thing, expecting to win a big lawsuit ... according to half of all FReepers - the half that keeps posting that airline tickets are a contract that explicitly states that airline customers can be assaulted and brutalized by airlines employees or airport rent-a-cops to the full extent of the captain’s authority - or something.
FR is a weird place anymore.
Any incident wher a baby is almost harmed..I puff me chest out too....That’s instilled in me from birth....and if i wasn’t on a plane...I have an attitude adjuster...not a firearm.
Partial video. From what is visible the FA was doing the opposite of de-escalating.He was quick to rush at the passenger and just as quick to throw his hands up and start backing up. I wouldn’t want the guy on my plane, he can’t seem to handle tension and pressure.
GAY PRIVELEGE.
Live in SanFran and you’ll know it.
“We have special rights and WE can do ANYTHING..!”
Smartphones, and the internet,
make things more difficult for the pigs of the world.