Originally Posted by
SOBE ER DOC
You do realize that if a representative of the FAA is on a flight and observes the FA not enforcing the rules the FA can be personally held responsible and the airline fined?
I don't see why it's so hard for people to just follow the rules and stop acting like they are more important than everyone else or that the rules should not apply to them simply because they are inconvenienced. Was the FA little heavy-handed...perhaps. But when you look at it from the FA's POV where most pax ignore safety instructions, blatantly ignore the rules and are referred to by customers as "a group of self-entitled servers with a perpetual inferiority complex" and have been subject to physical assault one begins to understand why they may feel the need to take a more aggressive posture.
You know, the easiest way to avoid this issue with the FA in the first place is to turn your *@%$ phone off. Unless someone is actively dying, whatever it is can wait.
More like this FA enjoys being an attention-seeking narcissist, like most FAs out there. She could have just gone on with her safety demo after telling passengers to pay attention, instead of micro-managing and aggressing every passenger. It's not the physical assault and push back that leads to "aggressive posture" but the opposite. FAs do not know how to de-escalate and maintain a welcoming atmosphere, rather they present themselves as unfriendly and uncompromising lords in the air, instead of just sticking to their servant roles.
FAs have had it good throughout the pandemic with us subsidizing their salary and giving them additional power, now it's time for them to be reminded of their place in air travel. Not sure why you feel the need to defend them and put them on a pedestal, I bet any FA that is reading this post is laughing their way to the bank and to our faces.