tbh, I can’t comment on whether the flight attendant’s behavior was over the top or really really over the top. Video’s been taken down, and I never saw it when it was up. EDIT: I actually did look around and wasn’t able to find a mirror either.
Further EDITs: It’s a smaller point, but to understand what happened here 100% it’s worth exploring whether the family was up to shenanigans here, and whether the shenanigans might have been intentional or unintentional. It might help explain – not excuse, certainly not! – but explain why the flight attendant flipped out the way that she (he? she?) did.
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It’s also worth understanding where on a scale of comparative badness this falls. The United/David Dao case is much, much worse, and part of the reason for that is that it was completely clear that Dao was fully ticketed and had an assigned seat; it’s only through some really abstruse stuff that the airline tried to force him off, and it’s not even entirely clear they had the right to. This case is different.
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I saw the vid, (and I’m sure there must additional copies somewhere on the web); the flight attendant clearly threatened the passengers with jail time and stated verbatim. “your kids will end up in foster care.”
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Nonetheless, when an apparent victimization has taken place, it is, in the general case, still important to get all the facts.
Imagine if the Duke Lacrosse case had been decided on this rubric, and asking any questions that cast doubt on the accuser’s story was dismissed out of hand as verboten victim-blaming. As an extreme case, tbs.
You know, I know it’s just revenge fantasy, but if I ever get an airline executive trying to stay at my hotel in peak season, I’ll take a room out of order, tell him we’re overbooked, and let him drive around all night looking for a vacancy.
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You win the Worst Analogy of the Week award!
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This.
I work in hotels, and occasionally overbook- But it’s never deliberate: We have a maintenance issue and a room can’t be used, or there’s a glitch with an internet (third party) reservation. We would never just sell more rooms than we have on the chance that somebody doesn’t show up.
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Amtrak’s problem is the same as the Post Office-
- Defund the institution as much as possible
- Place logistical demands not required of any other industry, like funding 75 years worth of pensions or requiring them to step aside for freight.
- Wait for institution to fail
- Use failed institution as an argument against government services
- Privatize
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Yup, so the only solution is that opposite of that.
That is the main problem. The people who make the decisions that lead to flight being as horrible an experience as it is, do so while remaining faceless and invisible. I am not a big fan of doxing in general, but people who make those sorts of decisions might be less inclined to do so if they thought there was a chance that they would be held responsible for their decisions.
Yes, sadly. Same thing is happening to public education in the U. S., including universities.
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Weird…
I never said nor even implied otherwise.
Good day.
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Amtrak also has the issue that most of us in flyover country have never been served by Amtrak and never will.
Although we do have a train that runs through the ranch. It would be great if we wanted to commute from Osier to Chama, NM. Not that anyone would.
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