Man Thrown Off Delta Flight for Offering to Fix Broken Inflight Entertainment
Man Thrown Off Delta Flight for Offering to Fix Broken Inflight Entertainment
A Delta Air passenger who worked in the aviation industry for more than 20 years after leaving the US Air Force says she was thrown off a flight to Jamaica after he offered to help fix the inflight entertainment system, which was suffering technical issues before departure. Bindley Sangster was flyi...
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okay to say on a flight: I'm a doctor
not okay to say on a flight: I'm a systems engineer
Flight crew: GET OFF THIS PLANE! WE DONT DO COMFORT AND ANDNJOY HERE!
Delta being absolute scum is hardly news these days.
In fact, airline companies at all being scum is hardly news
Like paddleyourownkanoo is fuckin news. WTF is this gash?
"says she was thrown off a flight to Jamaica after he offered"
Is this written by ai, or an honest typo, or what.
To play devil's advocate, there's quite a lot of paranoia around air travel these days. Security theater or not, I could see an inexperienced flight attendant getting antsy about someone asking to help with the tech on a plane. A lot of the linked messages seem to agree.
That being said, waiting until they wrote the complaint makes it seem more petty. And yet, it's hard to judge without knowing how exactly the offer was presented.
As a small business person responsible for the bookkeeping of our two businesses, I have often wanted to offer to do the jobs of some "accounting" departments I work with b2b with since they clearly don't know what the hell they're doing. I relate to this majorly and wish that idiots were capable of accepting free help.
Sounds like the Montreal Convention is pure shit and needs to be reworked.
That’s petty AF. I bet they get away with it though.