Originally Posted by
APW Girl
It seems that way too many people travelling think they should be treated as "first class" when their behavior doesn't indicate anything but Trailways Bus. Just because someone bought a ticket, doesn't give them the right to verbally abuse another. Even though it may seem as it was one little remark, how many remarks do these people have to put up with over the course of the day?
Think about the model of riding in an airplane. From the minute someone drops us off, there's a cop telling us to move it. In the airport, it's hurry up, get your things on the x-ray belt so you don't stop the line. Oh yeah, and you better be at the gate 20 minutes before departure. On the plane, we're told to hurry up with settling in and/or being told to step out of the aisle so others can walk through. From the moment we're on the airport grounds, it's go GO
GO!
I don't see wanting to get off a plane sitting on a tarmac as being uppity or a desire to be treated "first class." How many stories have we seen about planes, regardless of the circumstances, get left on the tarmac for hours (JetBlue, anyone?)? Listen on your next flight as the plane inches towards the final parking spot for the clicks of the seat belts prior to the plane being in its final parking position.
While the OP was wrong in dropping the f-bomb, did the situation really warrant usage of resources set to handle true emergencies such as a terrorist act or a plane crash?
It's only a matter of time that we're going to hear about an incident that didn't have proper response due to one of these retaliatory, power-trip things some (not all) crew members will employ because they want to show who's boss.