Originally published at: Delta passenger deplaned because her t-shirt somehow offended flight attendant - Boing Boing
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Look, I’m effusively accommodating to FAs (the Cops of the skies!) just to keep things moving, but this doesn’t even pass the sniff test. WTF was going through that FAs mind?!
It’s not like that shirt was a munition…
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The only way you’re going to get back on the plane is if you take it off right now
But she put on a sweatshirt. Why demand it be removed, when it could have been just covered up? I mean, Delta does still run the AC on its flights, no?
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Delta still offering AC? Don’t think that is a given.
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Well, that’s why I asked, I guess. Can’t assume anything with these late-stage capitalist charlatans, these days.
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I can attest that I have had a Delta flight canceled because the aircraft cabin was dangerously hot and they couldn’t find a portable air conditioner.
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Wasn’t there a case around 20 years ago where someone was kicked off a flight for wearing a shirt with the silhouette of a machine gun on it?
I tried searching for it just now but the search results are not only full of this story now, but also with the wide variety of other stories of strange reasons people were kicked off flights for wearing something.
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This is why the perfunctory “thank you for your service” line is so meaningless.
You prove you respect the sacrifice by supporting vets, not making their lives harder.
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Sounds like they need to rollback flight attendant’s authority a bit. Limit there ability to kick people off to actual problems instead of arbitrary things they personally find offensive, and codify guidelines on what is offensive enough to be removed in airline policy. People are paying not insignificant money for those seats for this to be allowed to continue.
This really sounds like someone was having a bad day and was out to share the misery.
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Okay, you can shut me down and tell me “This post doesn’t meet with community standards” but I think I can see where the flight attendant was coming from. It is NOT obvious that the teeshirt or sweatshirt is part of an anti-suicide campaign. The only mention of suicide is in small letters and is easy to miss.
Meanwhile, in another part of the forest, one individual campaigning for election to the presidency of the USA is threatening violence on “The enemy within”. Does this sound similar? It does to me. I’m not saying the flight attendant was right to do what they did. I’m not making excuses for them. But I think I can understand why they acted as they did.
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And once the FA had been informed of what the the t-shirt actually said (in plain English), why was there no adjustment to their reaction? And further informed of the authority of the wearer to wear that t-shirt, why was there STILL no adjustment to the reaction?
And why, once the passenger complied with the request, was she punished by losing the more expensive, better seat that she paid for, when everyone was already on the plane in their seats? That’s vindictive, against a vet no less, which is not a good look.
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I’m guessing here. The FA has three hundred other people to process, a list of things to be done, and a schedule to stick to. The FA, for good or ill, does not have time or attention to listen to explanations. For ill, in this instance, and in situations like this, the defendant (for want of a better term) has about five seconds to explain themselves succinctly and in terms which precisely counter the accusation. A defendant needs to be very quick-thinking, very articulate, and sufficiently empathic to understand the terms of the accusation. Most people can’t. I can’t, and when I have managed it, it was only in rare cases where the same situation has occurred before.
I’m with you there. That is sheer vindictiveness.
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More recently, someone got kicked off a flight for wearing a shirt with Optimus Prime holding up a gun on it.
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