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101 students kicked off AirTran flight
A New York high school senior class and an airline agree on one thing: 101 students and eight chaperones were kicked off an early-morning flight from New York to Atlanta on Monday...from there, the accounts diverge. (www.cnn.com) 更多...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Is it the case that Southwest Airlines is attempting to cover up an unprofessional and rash decision, by saying their group was not cooperating with the crew, when in fact they were?
Southwst overreacted.
Again. after kicking Billy Joe - of Greenday - off the plane cause they didn'y like how he was dressed.
It's not like SW is a suit and tie resturant.
Again. after kicking Billy Joe - of Greenday - off the plane cause they didn'y like how he was dressed.
It's not like SW is a suit and tie resturant.
I never went to a religious school, but my mother went to a Catholic school, and it only took one ruler across her knuckles in first grade to teach her to listen to Sister. I had my own discipline systems around me growing up: I'm a Navy BRAT, and I was in the Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts, earning the rank of Eagle in 1993. I didn't need any encouragement to behave other than knowing that my parents would find out if I didn't, and then I would be in real trouble. This included my first solo plane rides (KBOS-KLAX via KORD and back in 1988). The flight attendants said I was one of the best behaved kids they had ever had. (Come to think of it, I had more flights as an unaccompanied minor than I had with my family.)
Kudos to the flight crew for doing the right thing.
Kudos to the flight crew for doing the right thing.
Kudos to the TRS crew! Takes balls to jettison half the pax on the jet (or *all* of them if they were flying a B717! :D ).
What galls me, though, is the claims of "anti-semitism", right off. Last week in the mall, I was trying to enjoy a meal in the food court, and a group (6-8) of kids were causing a ruckus. It was pretty clear they were Jews because they were each wearing a yommika, but they weren't the over-the-top kind like the guy who stuffed himself into a plastic-bag in the middle of a flight not too long ago.
Anyway, people were giving them dirty looks because of their rowdiness, one kid was whispering to another, presumably that people were eyeballing 'em because of the noise, and the other kept saying, loudly, "So what? So what?". Pretty obnoxious...
Now, they were "behaved" in that they weren't carving their names into the tables, but it was still pretty obnoxious. And when a mall rent-a-cop came over to finally bounce them (none of them were eating anything, just hanging out), already the noisiest one was already yelling "Anti-semite!", among other things, like that's his "Whatevuh! I'll do what I waunt!" card.
So again, kudos to the TRS crew for bouncing them, as I can just picture the "entitled" brats wanting to do whatever they want, and damn any rules (or common courtesy).
What galls me, though, is the claims of "anti-semitism", right off. Last week in the mall, I was trying to enjoy a meal in the food court, and a group (6-8) of kids were causing a ruckus. It was pretty clear they were Jews because they were each wearing a yommika, but they weren't the over-the-top kind like the guy who stuffed himself into a plastic-bag in the middle of a flight not too long ago.
Anyway, people were giving them dirty looks because of their rowdiness, one kid was whispering to another, presumably that people were eyeballing 'em because of the noise, and the other kept saying, loudly, "So what? So what?". Pretty obnoxious...
Now, they were "behaved" in that they weren't carving their names into the tables, but it was still pretty obnoxious. And when a mall rent-a-cop came over to finally bounce them (none of them were eating anything, just hanging out), already the noisiest one was already yelling "Anti-semite!", among other things, like that's his "Whatevuh! I'll do what I waunt!" card.
So again, kudos to the TRS crew for bouncing them, as I can just picture the "entitled" brats wanting to do whatever they want, and damn any rules (or common courtesy).
"We were more behaved than kids should be," REALLY? I can totally see this happening. I've traveled with teenagers on planes many times and this is not out of the realm of possibility. Kick them off and get on with the flight. They should have been given ONE chance. The rules are the rules. NO CELL PHONES and SEATBELTS ARE A "MUST".
SHAME ON THE SCHOOL for not letting A: the 18 year old high school students how to act on a plane, and B: the 'chaperones' on their DUTIES. In life, there are consequences for inappropriate actions and it was time they learned that lesson! GOOD FOR YOU AIR TRANS!