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Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Steven Slater vs. the passenger

The reaction to Jet Blue flight attendant Steven Slater's profane tirade to a planeload of passengers and subsequent bail-out via an emergency-hatch slide has been pretty much what I would have expected. Most people are understanding, ruefully citing the lousy conditions that everyone on planes must endure nowadays. Some--and I count myself among their number--wonder why the passenger whose willful disregard of the flight crew's instructions ignited this fiasco hasn't suffered any adverse consequences for her abusive and unsafe behavior.

A few, however, made comments similar to this one, although this was the most strident wording I found in a cursory scan. (Typos and poor grammar are as in the original.)


We know the airline industry games, and we don't like them. Flight attendants just like mortgage servicing operators, like Cops in Compton know who and what they represent. If you don't like your job, go do something else. We as Americans have the right to express any emotion, any sentient, in any time or place (beside obscenity) even at 30,000 feet.


I wonder if this was written by the passenger in question. It certainly reeks of the same self-centered sense of entitlement and lack of civility she demonstrated.

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