biljack wrote:
the gentleman next to me commented about her rudeness. My response was that she was probably just used to people being difficult about shutting down their electronics. He explained that he was an executive from Delta and had noticed this type of behavior as common with many of the flight attendants. It is something that Delta is looking into.
When the "gentleman next to me" dies, we should have him stuffed, and put on exhibit in a museum operated by the Southern Poverty Law Center, or the ACLU. The label should read: This is the one man, in the airline industry of the early 21st century, who truly cared about the Constitutional rights of air travelers.
It would be nice to think there are more in the airline industry who think like this man. Perhaps there are. Former Continental CEO Gordon Bethune was quoted as saying there are no "Sky Nazis" working for his airline. Despite all this, and as I stated in a previous post, things will have to get a lot worse before they get better. People will have to die as a result of unattended medical conditions in tarmac delays and there will have to be some baseless arrests of some high profile individuals. Perhaps our best hope, in the "Sky Nazi" department, is to have one or more foreign diplomats arrested, or kicked-off a flight, and a resulting foreign relations headache. A long shot, I know. But we can always dream.
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