Originally Posted by
BinSabai
that's what most of us already understood.
that does not change the fact that the pilot has no right to take over 200 passengers hostage, take the risk that the flight is cancelled and the plane remains in Zurich and blackmail ground control that seat arrangements are changed. What would have happened if nobody of the passengers in F agreed to change voluntarily. Would the pilots have insisted that ground staff use FORCE against the passengers and take them out of their seats (remember the UA case, where an innocent passenger was injured by security when they used force to free his seat for a off duty pilot??)?
that the pilot goes now public on FB against the apology of TG's president makes things even worse! what the hell does this guy think!
now it is obvious, that he needs to be fired!
I am so with you on this.
Although KK could've done better with his communications, I side with him insisting on "PAX comes first" (or it might have been his ego, who knows?)
And the fact remains that
Business seats WAS AVAILABLE - it doesn't matter that pre-flight briefing 4 F seats were available - tough! Those two pax were rev pax.
PIC was right to try to sort it out before boarding, but to drag is out in public (well, it became public for obvious reasons) is just so unprofessional, and so THAI!
Those two should've tough it out quietly, return home as a hero and then take revenge on the KK internally
