Crogalski From United States, joined May 2005, 499 posts, RR: 3 Posted (1 month 3 weeks 2 days 23 hours ago) and read 15864 times:
Quote: A Manhattan man is feeling flush with anger after he says he was forced to sit in the bathroom for three hours on a cross-country JetBlue flight.
Gokhan Mutlu is now suing the airline for $2 million for having "mortified, disgraced, degraded and shamed" him by confining him to the can.
Mutlu says the bizarre incident happened Feb. 23, when he was a standby passenger for a flight from San Diego to New York.
Quite amusing if you ask me... I don't see it to be true...
Skyweasy82 From United States, joined Jun 2007, 47 posts, RR: 0 Reply 10, posted (1 month 3 weeks 2 days 23 hours ago) and read 15595 times:
This is B.S. Why would a captain come out and argue with a passenger over a non-reving or deadheading F/A? And telling him to sit in the lav? If I was the attorney for this guy I would say thanks for the money.
Crogalski From United States, joined May 2005, 499 posts, RR: 3 Reply 12, posted (1 month 3 weeks 2 days 23 hours ago) and read 15515 times:
Quote: Mutlu was traveling on a a "buddy pass," a standby travel voucher that JetBlue employees give to friends, from New York to San Diego on Feb. 16, and returned to New York on Feb. 23, the lawsuit said.
Aloha73G From United States, joined Jul 2003, 1998 posts, RR: 3 Reply 15, posted (1 month 3 weeks 2 days 22 hours ago) and read 15378 times:
Could it be that he and the F/A were both non-revving....the F/A asked if they could switch seats for a while so she would have a chance to rest for a few hours (half the flight?) since she had agreed to sit in the jump seat that he could make the flight. We'll assume the pilot intervened on her behalf during a lav break....perhaps she was deadheading or returning home after a long duty day.
He threw a hissy fit and locked himself in the bathroom in protest..."You expect me to STAND the rest fo the flight?"
"No, you could sit in the LAV if you really wanted to." So, he did.
The only reason this crossed my mind is that i saw a passenger on HA pull something similar because her seat did not recline. She did in fact stand most of the flight next to a LAV except during the meal and beverage services and when the seatbelt sign was on. She was not happy either.....fortunately she was also not litigious.
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Futurecaptain From , joined today!, posts, RR: Reply 16, posted (1 month 3 weeks 2 days 22 hours ago) and read 15373 times:
Quoting Ikramerica (Reply 8): That's a short amount of time. You have 2 years to file suit in the USA.
RIght. But if a situation like this happened to you would you wait several months before seeking some sort of settlement? Probably not. The witnesses memories are now fuzzy of the event and proof it did or didn't happen is probably gone.
DurangoMac From United States, joined Dec 2006, 129 posts, RR: 0 Reply 17, posted (1 month 3 weeks 2 days 22 hours ago) and read 15278 times:
Quoting UnitedTristar (Reply 11): nowhere does it say he was a nonrev...perhaps he was booked on another flight and stood by for this one
To me it sounds like he's a Non-Rev because most airlines won't involuntarily deny boarding to a paying passenger for an employee unless the employee was a must-ride which I've only seen it a few times in all of my time in airports.
I also suspect that the lead FA would first approach the guy before getting the captain involved.
B6JFKH81 From United States, joined Mar 2006, 709 posts, RR: 1 Reply 18, posted (1 month 3 weeks 2 days 22 hours ago) and read 15268 times:
Quoting Aloha73G (Reply 15): Could it be that he and the F/A were both non-revving....the F/A asked if they could switch seats for a while so she would have a chance to rest for a few hours (half the flight?) since she had agreed to sit in the jump seat that he could make the flight. We'll assume the pilot intervened on her behalf during a lav break....perhaps she was deadheading or returning home after a long duty day.
If the person was on a buddy pass, chances are that he was not a crewmember and would not be qualified to sit jumpseat. In that case, the F/A that presumeably did the seat swap could not have offered this person to sit jump seat unless he had his JetBlue ID on him (or one from another airline)...but even then, the chances of that person being on a buddy pass are slim. So yes, they were both non-reving...but no, they cannot both sit in the jump seat.
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IAD51FL From United States, joined Dec 2006, 156 posts, RR: 0 Reply 20, posted (1 month 3 weeks 2 days 20 hours ago) and read 14736 times:
Fine... Give him 100x what he paid for the ticket.... he will never travel B6 again...blah blah blah.
I do not believe this is even close to true, and I cant wait to see what the outcome is. And you wonder why employees are very cautious whom they give buddy passes to.
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