"Joey, do you like movies about gladiators?"
Posted on 05/13/2008 2:12:18 PM PDT by indcons
A man is suing JetBlue Airways Corp. for more than $2 million because he says a pilot made him give up his seat to a flight attendant and sit on the toilet for more than three hours on a flight from California.
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Could have been worse.
Pilot could have made him sit on his lap.
I think that man is full of __it.
Sorry....I thought I was under the 200-word limit. Will use only brief excerpts from now on (for the sorces that need excerption).
The airline toilet was fer sure more comfortable than the arab bomb-sight toilets of the mid east world. Ingrate! LOL!
I have sat in the jump seat of an airplane once. A short commuter flight with no stew, btw, and it was full when I walked on board. I looked around and the pilot came out and flipped out the little seat on the door for me to sit on. It was about as big around and hard as a toilet lid. Luckily it was a short flight.
Hmmmm ..........LOTS more too this than we get too read !
I am a friend of a Jet Blue pilot on the NYC to West coast route. I’ll ask her if she is privy (no pun well yes it was intended) to this incident.
LOL !!
I love that turbulance is a keyword. LOL!!
We found the two sawhorses and a toilet seat solution too those damn things bearable !.......:o)
The closest I’ve come ot a non-passenger seat was sitting in the “jump” seat in the cockpit on a small turboprop from Zurich to Nuremberg. Of course, this was pre-911....can’t imagine doing anything like this today.
It was lots of fun....the pilots allowed me to sit there upon request and described places below as we made the trip. Had to return to my seat prior to landing though :)
The entire plane was filled with selfish baffoons too stuck to their iPods and cell phones to remember what civility was all about.
The head stewardess was praising me and offering me anything I wanted. I told her loudly that I deserved nothing, because it was just common courtesy.
Is that anything like sitting on the floor of a M1911 personnel carrier while everyone else has seat, and riding there for about 6 hours while holding a full combat load of ammo and other gear? Because I have to tell you that is extremely painful.
"Joey, do you like movies about gladiators?"
I’m laughing too, but why should Jet Blue or any airline get away with such behavior? If you let him on the plane, he better have a seat!
Now, he wants $2 million, which raises the question -- For $2 million tax free dollars, would you ride in a bathromm from CA to NY? I'll start the bidding thusly--
I would be willing to ride back and forth in the plane's bathroom for one full year without getting off the plane-- then give me the $2 mil.
Something about this story just doesn’t ring true. The FAA has rules for everything including that requirement that every passenger or crewmember on a commercial flight be in a secured seat on landing and takeoff. If the claim is true JetBlue and the pilot in command can be in for some serious trouble.
Maybe the guy had a potty mouth...
How about, "When you gotta go se-at"
I wouldn’t know, but as the only female and sitting in the ‘stew’ seat, the guys on the plane kept asking me to get them some coffee, tea, etc. It was a VERY small plane.
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