The FA was exactly right... emergency rows cost extra, and Murdock should’ve known that prior to the flight.
Yes, but according to the story, a women was allowed to move to that row later in the flight. If so, and she was white, doesn’t look good for the attendant.
I fly United every month,and they have gotten extremely strict about moving to economy plus or exit row seats if you didn’t pay for them. I have been on several flights where it was me and one or two others in economy plus and coach was completely full.
But if the seats were empty and they weren’t sold, assigned or “given” to someone else there should not have been an issue. Also if another gentlemen offered to exchange seats there shouldn’t have been an issue either UNLESS the doors were about to close and the shuffling would have delayed the flight. I have seen that happen numerous times where the FA was asked if a person could move to an empty row if j one was seated there.
As someone else said the article left a lot of info out. In my opinion just from what was written the FA was wrong.
And I’m trying to figure out how an exNBA player doesn’t have enough money to buy the slightly more costly tickets (it’s like $40 bucks extra), so he could sit with his kid.