The blankets on Hawaiian are available for purchase, it's not just a rental fee. (They are actually pretty nice, I use mine almost every time I fly.) Is it really fair or reasonable that the crew should have just given him one because he's making a scene? If this guy didn't want to pay for a blanket on the plane, he should have brought a sweater. Have you been on a plane before? Sometimes they're hot, a lot of times they are cold. Yeah, it's annoying that airlines don't give us everything for free anymore, but that's just the way it is. At least Hawaiian still provides free meals in coach, with a free glass of wine to go with it.

Also, if he was being this unruly over a blanket an hour into the flight, who knows what he might have done a few hours later when the plane is in the middle of the ocean and now would have to be diverted even further out of the way.