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American Airlines flight turns around 2 hours in after passenger calls attendant 'waiter' (local12.com)

submitted 7 months ago by oleorun to c/weirdnews

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Can't we all just get along for a few hours?

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago

Asshole waiter shut down dinner service because a single diner called him “garçon”.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I'm usually the first one to take the airline's side when a passenger is being disruptive, but not this time. That flight attendant was just on a power trip. Passenger wasn't being disruptive, they were just annoyed and mildly rude.

[–] oleorun 16 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Indeed, when I came across this headline I thought 'here we go again, another crazy passenger being rude, offensive, and demanding' and turns out the flight attendant was just a huge asshole who cost a lot of people a lot of money. American Airlines is probably none-too-pleased with him either.

It'll be wild to see how this pans out.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

This article is bad and has crappy sources.

"I didn't want to cause a scene, so when they asked if I wanted something, I didn't reply." Such a stupid thing to say. Of course they're going to ask again.

"When asked again, I called them a Waiter". So much for not causing a scene. This person is not reliable.

I'll wait for the video, thank you very much.

The "apology from the airline and 10,000 miles" was a form letter to every passanger with reimbursement. They didn't apologize to him. They apologized to everyone for the disrupted flight.

We also only have his side of the story. I wouldn't trust any single one of the assholes that are disruptive on planes. They always lie and think they're in the right.

I'm not even defending American. I hate that airline. I'm just morally opposed to bad journalism