Air Canada Asked A Woman To Breastfeed In An Airplane Bathroom
 

If an FA ever made that suggestion to my wife I would burst out laughing and then hand them one of the 38 million AC issued eye shades I have.

"Here. Wear this. Now your delicate sensibilities need not be offended."

Clearly, AC hates families, babies, and really children of any sort, and despite their best protests, the FA followed what can only be official airline policies in this case.

In protest, I would encourage all parents of all children to fly WestJet, now and forever more...:cool:

Can anyone tell me, why is this news? OK, the FA clearly f'ed up, badly, and the customer is right to escalate to the airline. Although, she chose to do so in the clearly millennial fashion of drawing as much attention to herself as she could in doing so.

Try to look at it a different way. Millennials were raised with an understanding that this is the most expedient way to cause another party some public embarrassment and force them to acknowledge wrongdoing.

The woman may or may not want some attention for herself - we don't know. It's equally likely that she's just using the method that she understands to be most effective.

This method gets used thousands of times a day all over the world because it works. No need to besmirch this woman's character because she's chosen to employ said method.

Twitter is one of the best ways to get a response from Air Canada, especially for a no-status PAX. What is she going to do, call and wait on hold for 2 hours, email in and get a generic reply 5% base fare discount code? And Air Canada is not wide open for Twitter DMs, so she can't do that either. If this was me, and I wasn't SE, this is exactly how I would have handled it too; tweet @ Air Canada. And lo and behold she got a response!

Obviously AC screwed up here. You'd think in 2019 this would not happen, but AC has thousands of flight crew and mistakes happen. Hopefully this is a teaching moment for someone, and AC apologize and compensate the affected woman to her satisfaction.

You dont think CBC will pick this up in the next 12 hours, and then reach out to that idiot Gabor for comment? Please...

Why does she deserve compensation outside of an acknowledgement and apology? At least anything beyond the usual 5 or 15% discount code I get when I complain that I could build new suitcases out of gum wrappers faster than my current ones are ever delivered in YOW.

Her rights under the Canadian Human Rights Code may have been violated for which the party that has breached those rights can be found to owe damages at large.

That is why she is entitled to compensation.

I think some people don't understand the Canadian Human Rights Code that's why some people take it for granted and just "sweep it under the rug" type of deal, they think its just another person complaining.

Oh wow if anyone told me I couldn't breastfeed on the plane...I can't even imagine what I would say. Luckily I've only had good experiences in the last year. I've flown with my baby 4 times and not once has anyone said anything or even given me a look while breastfeeding.
I remember reading a story a year or so ago where a flight attendant handed a woman's husband a blanket and said 'Give this to her to cover up'. How that happens these days is beyond me.

I think we have all heard enough out of Gabor Lukacs...

This was a big mistake on the part of AC, it will be very bad PR for them when it reaches CBC! Foolish of the flight attendant to thing that no backlash would arise from this, it is beyond me!

WS is no better. At least they weren't last decade.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/briti...sment-1.697186