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United boots blogger from flight for taking photo, making 'terrorist' comment
A man says United Airlines kicked him off his flight to Istanbul on Valentine's Day after he took a picture of his seat and made a comment about terrorists. “I take photos on every single flight I am on,” Matthew Klint, a 26-year old travel blogger, told NBC News. “I have a picture of every airline meal I've been served for the last nine years.” (www.nbcnews.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
I think the terrorist comment was entirely what this was about.
Yeah, but all he said was "I hope you don't think I'm a terrorist." That was just bullshit about the Captain being uncomfortable with him being on the airplane. This theatrical security, Flight Attendants with power that has gone to their heads, and overzealous pilots have gone too far. One day, just one day of boycotting the airlines will take care of this...
spend one week as a flight attendant with the general public..you will understand why they are so crazy sometimes. I don't agree with rude service but we all tend to forget that people are in-fact CRAZY in the world and you just never know what somebody is truly up to anymore. Americans like to live in a bubble of safety all of the time with an arrogant "we are number one" attitude but leaving Istanbul for the US and saying you're not a terrorist will raise questions and IT SHOULD. Everyone will bitch and moan until another 911 happens then you will be fine with overzealous flight crews and pilots and "theatrical security." It's not perfect by any means but in my opinion it's still too lax in America. What would have happened to that American Airlines flight if a flight crew hadn't questioned and been "overzealous" with the guy who had a bomb in his shoe?...everyone on that plane would be at the bottom of the atlantic. America will never boycott airlines, you need us more than we need you. When's the last time you took a train from LAX to JFK?
If you take a customer service job, you know what you're getting into, CUSTOMER SERVICE!!!
There's absolutely no excuse to be rude to a customer even if they're being a jackass.
I've got no pity for the Flight Attendant that cries about passenger rudeness or difficulty. You took the job, if you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen!!!
There's absolutely no excuse to be rude to a customer even if they're being a jackass.
I've got no pity for the Flight Attendant that cries about passenger rudeness or difficulty. You took the job, if you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen!!!
If I'm on a train why the hell would I go to an airport?
Naturally...taking pictures isn't a big deal on planes and lets not forget this guy was in Business/First and probably had a "entitled" attitude about the situation. Two sides to a story, you assume it was an overzealous flight crew..how about just a jack ass in business as usual?
Your opinions are very one-sided. I'm a second generation of business flyer. No, I don't wear a suit to fly upfront anymore, but I'm still courteous at all times to the cabin crew. However, over the last several years, the airline staffs in general have lost their respect for us, their customers. The industry is falling down based on what it used to be.
Personally, I still support the "better safe than sorry" philosophy. Sorry is too late.
Yes, sorry is too late, but it's the true employee that could walk the fine line of good service while enforcing a "rule" in a professional and courteous manner, all with a genuine smile... Unfortunately those people are far and few in between. Just like every other business, most trainers that are training todays trainees, were themselves crappy employees.
Whenever I get on an airline flight I always think about back in the beginning of the 80's, my mother and I would fly Pan Am and Eastern, it was a first class experience, even in coach, minus the cigarette smoke...
Whenever I get on an airline flight I always think about back in the beginning of the 80's, my mother and I would fly Pan Am and Eastern, it was a first class experience, even in coach, minus the cigarette smoke...
I couldn't agree more with your attitude or interpretation of history...but its just not reality...this is now a societal problem and its infected everything...including FA's. The "keep your mouth" shut biz is really the only approach unless you are looking for trouble...because everybody is ready to hand it out at the drop of one dumb comment.
That's true about the "keep your mouth shut" deal, but we shouldn't have to live that way, and there are a lot of people including myself who may get into "trouble" because we don't have the shut up meek and mild mentality. C'est la vie, I guess...
I'm completely on your side...I got my Girlfriend up in Biz-class a month or so back on an international and she was treated horribly by a moody french purser working a U.S flagged carrier. I try not to speak up about their jobs but the reality is the idea of cabin attendants being service oriented is long gone. they are riddled with so many other issues that they perceive the passenger as beneath their position and have a general air of resentment towards them...The "us and them" syndrome is now complete...If they get sick of it, suspicious or pissed, they send it up to the flight deck and the Captains call is rendered...remember...he/she has to work with the cabin attendants...who do think gets picked?