[VRWCmember]

Sounds like JetBlue is trying to take its reputation to new depths. But $2 Million??!! Give me a break!

[CSM]

Did his legs fall asleep?

[NormsRevenge]

Soros SoreArse Airlines

[WayneS]

The solution is simply.

The FAA needs to mandate seat belts on the toilets in commercial airliners.

;^)

[Hegemony Cricket]

JetBlue’s new slogan: “When you’ve gotta go, fly JetBlue!”

[svcw]

This story seems so hard to believe - the smell test, doesn’t pass.

[Moose4]

$2 million is a bit much. But forcing a passenger (even somebody flying non-rev) to sit on an unbelted toilet in a situation where the seat belt sign is on, that’s a big no-no. It sounds like a screwup that he was even booked into a seat on that flight, but once he was, seems to me the flight attendant should’ve stayed in the jump seat (isn’t that what they’re there for?).

}:-)4

[monday]

“told him that “he was the pilot, that this was his plane, under his command that (Mutlu) should be grateful for being on board,” the lawsuit said. “

Sounds to me like this particular pilot will be lucky if he gets to command a school bus from now on. No more flying for him.

[Anti-Bubba182]

This is the end of the “buddy pass”.

[BigFinn]

If the story is true ... he deserves every penny.
However, I can't imagine any airline would do such a thing. With all the regulations and precautions... very unlikely.

[PBRSTREETGANG]

JetLoo?

[mysterio]

$2 million? Toss the case out as frivolous, possibly fine the man for wasting the court’s time.

[FortWorthPatriot]

Can you imagine him having to get out of the toilet each time a passenger needed to go? He'd have to stand outside until they were finished and then have to sit with whatever odor they had left behind afterwards.

Seriously, this is customer service at its worst. The pilot should have let the guy take the jump seat instead whether he was a JetBlue employee or not.

In a more perfect world, the filght attendant should have stayed with the jump seat in order to make the customer happy even if she was uncomfortable.

[NorCoGOP]

When Mutlu expressed reluctance to go sit in the bathroom, the pilot, who was not named in the lawsuit, told him that "he was the pilot, that this was his plane, under his command that (Mutlu) should be grateful for being on board," the lawsuit said.

If he didn't like it, he should have stepped outside!

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

There's got to be at least one “Al Bundy” on board any commercial jet. The Captain could have auctioned off the “privilege” of occupying the toilet for the entire flight.

[CharlesWayneCT]

There are things that make no sense in this story.

First, the flight attendent would have sat in the jump seat all the time. Why this ONE time she couldn’t?

Second, passengers aren’t allowed to sit in the toilet instead of their seats. So why, even if the pilot threw the guy out of his seat, why not let him in the jump seat? In other words, why would the pilot follow the rules about jump seats, if he was breaking the rules about kicking the guy out of his seat, and about making him sit in the toilet?

Third, there aren’t that many toilets on the planes. The idea that one would be shut for the entire flight, without anybody complaining, is very hard to believe.

Fourth, we are hearing about this because of a lawsuit. But I pay some attention to weird stories. It surely seems that this story would have been news when it first happened. Other passengers would have easily been able to corroberate the story.

I’m just speculating, of course, based on the limited knowledge from this story.

[Da Coyote]

This smells like a “RatherReport” (tm). Passengers are to be seated and belted in for takeoffs and landings. If this really happened, the pilot will be fired. Somehow, I don’t think that it did.

[Political Junkie Too]

Perhaps the other passengers on the flight should file a class-action suit against JetBlue for denial of toilet services while one was occupied by this passenger for non-lavatory purposes?

-PJ

[freespirited]

I have a serious question for one of the resident lawyers.

It sounds like this guy did not purchase a ticket from Jet Blue but rather flew at no charge. If that’s the case and this actually went to court, would that have any effect on what he is entitled to get from Jet Blue?

[beandog]

I’m not sure it’s worth $2 million but I’d sure give him a considerable sum. The pilot should be fired and the flight attendent should be told if she doesn’t like the seat she’s supposed to sit in she should leave also.

Everyone claiming it should be thrown out of court would be screaming their lungs out if it happened to them.

[toast]

People that fly non-rev are commonly the first ones to be inconvenienced on any flight. They aren’t paying.

I fly non-rev a lot. It is understood if there aren’t enough meals, drinks, etcetra, I go without. There are a few instances under which I have been bumped from a flight that I would have gladly been assigned to the bathroom.

A little secret...You can actually hang out next to the back galley. You don’t have to sit in the bathroom. The flight attendant can go back to the jump seat when it is time to land.