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Old Apr 21, 2024 | 7:42 am
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JABs
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Originally Posted by Phlyer2
Let's break this down. Some of the terms here are doing some heavy lifting to create a story of distress with a rather small fact base. Yes, it sounds distressing, but I'm missing the smoking gun here. There might be a cause for alerting the BA police, but the only bits of the story that stand up here as written are that a BA staff member was talking to a passenger quickly and she asked him to slow down - and he didn't.

Let's break it down:

a (male) BA gate agent - Relevance of being male?
a distressed passenger - Speculative observation
a middle aged lady - Relevance of middle aged or lady?
I was sufficiently close to hear part, but not all, of the conversation - So we don't have all the facts
in which the gate agent (who was speaking quickly - Opinion and relevance?
and aggressively - opinion
with a strong accent which may be difficult to follow - "may be" - opinion
made various assertions which any frequent flyer would know to be complete nonsense - unclear and unspecified
it was unclear to me whether that lady is an experienced traveller) - relevance?
the lady became increasingly distressed - opinion
asked him to slow down to enable her to understand - fair point
and then asked for assistance - fair point
as she was increasingly distressed - opinion
he refused, laughed and threatened her with removal from the flight twice - lacking facts as to why / what was said
I don't know all the facts - agreed
I overheard just part of the conversation - but there did not appear to be any obvious risk: she was not drunk, abusive etc. - "appear to be" - speculative
Anyone would find that conduct distressing - opinion
and had she been neurodiverse, all the more so - and if she wasn't?
I'm almost embarrassed to write this - I would be too
but I doubt if the gate agent would have treated a male passenger in the same manner - opinion
I'd like to alert someone at BA to this but don't know where to start - don't based on this fact base
If I send in a customer service complaint, I'll simply get a template reply - agreed
Can anyone suggest to whom I might report this? I have the agent's name, the gate number and the time so it should be possible for someone at BA to investigate - investigate what? A speculative journey through a partially heard conversation with a fair sprinkling of assumption? I'd leave it.
Just the sort of thing a bystander would say. “I'm almost embarrassed to write this - I would be too”
Yet the most embarrassing post was that one above.

Well done to the OP for showing care. Just a shame they didn’t offer to give their details at the time.

OP does say they just want BA to investigate to try to get to bottom of it, in a later post, but yes, perhaps the title could say “Reporting [potential] staff misconduct”.
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