Originally Posted by
ralfp
And if the FA tells you to sit down and be quiet? It would not be too hard for an FA to translate "raising a stink" to "interfering with flight crew", even if you're raising a stink about something legit. How would one talk to the captain w/o going through the FA?
Besides, waiting doesn't help too much if the FA is ordering you to hold it in for 14 hours, sit next to a corpse, etc.
If the FA refused to escalate to the Captain, then I would inform the FA that everything he/she is doing will be reported to headquarters upon arrival and it will be escalated to the VP of Inflight (and you would need to follow through on that).
If the FA refused to let me use the lav, absent other orders from the flight deck and I needed to go, I would use it anyway. They can write me up, but once we arrive and discuss the situation with the Captain and authorities on the ground, the FA will come across looking like a moron.
I recall reading a few other threads here over the years where an FA did something out of line or called the authorities on a customer without appropriate cause, and it was the FA who got in trouble, not the customer.