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American Airlines flight returns to MIA for disruptive customer
AA flight MIA-LHR returns due to disruptive customer refusing to wear a mask. (www.cnn.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Do we know if she is a USA or European citizen? If European, she may have had no consequences once landed. I think there should be a hefty fine for the extra cost of all the fuel wasted plus the various inconveniences to the crew and passengers. Nicely over $15,000 I'd guess. Just putting her on a no-fly for that airline is not enough. Let her take a boat to Europe! And if I were an inconvenienced passenger who lost some connection, I'd want to sue here for personal damages.
Seems a bit stupid to interrupt the entire flight vs continuing and having the actor detained by the Brits, however I do not blame anyone but the woman for initiating the required protocols. I would certainly been highly ticked off if I'd been a passenger on the flight. I think the Brits would have been much more harsh. Everyone else aboard was punished because of the actions of one woman. What a crazy world we live in these days.
Whether we like it or not, agree with it or not, or understand it or not, the Captain is in charge of his plane. Case closed!
While the statement you made is a fact, it has NOTHING to do with whether on not the Captain made a completely inane decision.
I'm wondering whether the captain was one to make the decision. Did he even have a choice? Or was it a corporate action? Perhaps placing a mask on the woman and restraints for the seat would have been a better idea. I don't know. I'm just curious if there could have been other options that would have been less troubling for the 100+ other passengers and crew.
"Federal Mask Mandate". I would imagine they have a corporate policy that deals with the enforcement of it.
If the only infraction was not wearing a mask, this might be the dumbest "return to base" in the history of commercial aviation. It would be difficult to put a number on what this will cost AA, but more than likely in the hundreds of thousands, if not millions. Not to mention disrupting the lives of the other passengers and the financial onus it may have caused them. I can only hope that there were other mitigating circumstances.