Originally Posted by
Loren Pechtel
The threats of arrest are real, the charges are wrong.
The threat is real. After all, they made it. The reality is laughable.
They have the authority to say that you're not flying, but the charges you would be looking at would be disobeying a crewmember's instructions, not terrorism.
Nope.
We've covered this one (most recently, IIRC, when MatthewLAX made the terrorism comment on a UA flight & got kicked off for his troubles) before - with quotes from the statutes even.
FA's have zero authority to do anything except (
IIRC) require you to sit down and put a seatbelt on. Now, they may
think they have all sorts of authority ala the "terrorism" accusation, but it won't go anywhere. Pilots have the authority to kick you off the plane if and only if they can articulate a reason why you shouldn't fly, and that's it.
It does sound insane, though.
What, jumped up power tripping paranoid morons yelling at customers in the US and making up "rules" as they go along? Say it ain't so!
