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Originally Posted by pkgofgkp
PHX: Thanks a lot got taking to reply here. I wouldn't have got a reply earlier than this else where. I am sure u work for AA and get paid to reply here and you are doing a good job.
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See above.
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Originally Posted by pkgofgkp
And to Yr point (and that of Gro...) of being arrested and imprisonment.. all that are far fetched and extreme measures and it would have unfortunate for everybody involved if that had happened.
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It's a good thing you didn't refuse to deplane or you probably would have found yourself in a much worse situation. However your refusal to follow the instructions of not one but two crew members was indeed a violation of federal law and just for that they could have pressed charges and had you arrested. Again you were lucky that they merely asked you to leave the plane and didn't call law enforcement to meet you when you did.
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Originally Posted by pkgofgkp
You totally missed the point: I never said I will not obey the "orders" and keep my phone ON no matter what !!!! I just said I need few moments to switch it off. They never gave me any time. It was a small plane and they made the announcement and came to my seat and remained there waiting for me to turn it of. I have never seen that before. I observe that every week when I fly. They make announcements and go on rounds and make announcements again and by that time everybody complies.
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As The_Judge pointed out, it is you, sir, who "totally missed the point." You're trying to play the semantics game in an attempt to justify your actions. Bottom line is you were told to turn it off more than once and didn't.
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Originally Posted by pkgofgkp
And I am not even defending my actions. I am just saying that asking to leave the plane was a little too much.
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Laws are made for the safety of people and using a cell phone for 2 more minutes was not going to cause any harm to anybody. [/quote]
You say you aren't defending your actions and in the very next sentence go on to defend your actions. It doesn't matter that having the cell phone on is a critical safety issue or not. You were told to do something and not only did you not comply but verbally challenged two crew members. The second FA you encountered was most likely the head FA for that flight.
I will also take this opportunity to correct you on a point you made in your initial post. When you said "And what should I do in addition to pray for those flight attendants that they be forgiven..." you are blaming the FAs for removing you from the flight. The only person on the plane who can make that decision is the captain. When the 2nd FA you encountered left for the front of the plane he was reporting what had happened to the captain. It was the captain who decided to give you the boot.
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Originally Posted by pkgofgkp
To all AA representative here......"Its easy to say that I dis-obeyed and that's why I was punished" But the situation could have been handled in 100 other ways and it was unfortunate that the FA chose this way.
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Instead of thinking about the 100 other ways it
could have been handled why not think of the one way it
should have been handled. When the first FA approached you and asked you to turn off your device you should have turned it off. Period. End of story. I'll bet you'll never challenge the instructions of a flight crew again so perhaps in the end this was a good learning experience for you.