“We will lock you in the bathroom during turbulence”
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The way I've been explained it by several flight attendants is that they can't tell you not to go to the bathroom, only suggest that the seatbelt sign is on.
Sounds like they are forbidden from giving you a direct order thus you aren't violating any laws by going to the bathroom.
This is just my understanding and it may be incorrect.
Sounds like they are forbidden from giving you a direct order thus you aren't violating any laws by going to the bathroom.
This is just my understanding and it may be incorrect.
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It's against the law under most circumstances for anyone to lock another person in a small room and not let them out.
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Never seen a lock on a lav door that only locks from the outside. The times they have locked it, all they do is lift the cover and slide the same lock that you use from the inside. So, nothing to stop you from coming out if they did.
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How many passengers know that and how many of those would think of doing it if they're panicking because they're locked in a lavatory?
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The FA is probably just trying to be funny. Of course they are not going to lock you in the bathroom, even if they could.
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Op's lav door was blocked by the FA's seat if she didn't get up and move. It's a figurative "lock" because it's blocked. Not that they would use the door lock.
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Ugh, I'm getting secondhand anxiety just reading this. I can imagine in a few areas where this could go completely wrong and become needlessly escalated:
a) A deaf passenger goes in, gets blocked in. S/he cannot communicate or hear. Panic ensues, the passenger tries to break out. Police is called upon arrival.
b) A claustrophobic passenger gets blocked in. Panic gets to a point where s/he passes out.
c) A blind passenger gets blocked in, thinks s/he opened the wrong door, gets confused and flails around.
In no way is this right, at all.
a) A deaf passenger goes in, gets blocked in. S/he cannot communicate or hear. Panic ensues, the passenger tries to break out. Police is called upon arrival.
b) A claustrophobic passenger gets blocked in. Panic gets to a point where s/he passes out.
c) A blind passenger gets blocked in, thinks s/he opened the wrong door, gets confused and flails around.
In no way is this right, at all.
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When the FA locks them out for takeoff and landing, they’re using the same slide lock you can open from the inside. There just manipulating it from the outside. You just had a crackpot spinning yarns, if this were an Envoy flight, I would have asked if her name is Carmen.
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Or she was kidding. A female FA recently threatened me with a spanking (I don't remember what for, but I told her that I deserved it).
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"Thanls for letting me know" and move on
I would think almost any passenger would know that to get out of the lavatory that they had locked that they need to unlock the same lock, in the opposite direction. At least I would hope so.
I would think almost any passenger would know that to get out of the lavatory that they had locked that they need to unlock the same lock, in the opposite direction. At least I would hope so.
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When the FA locks them out for takeoff and landing, they’re using the same slide lock you can open from the inside. There just manipulating it from the outside. You just had a crackpot spinning yarns, if this were an Envoy flight, I would have asked if her name is Carmen.
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The way I've been explained it by several flight attendants is that they can't tell you not to go to the bathroom, only suggest that the seatbelt sign is on.
Sounds like they are forbidden from giving you a direct order thus you aren't violating any laws by going to the bathroom.
This is just my understanding and it may be incorrect.
Sounds like they are forbidden from giving you a direct order thus you aren't violating any laws by going to the bathroom.
This is just my understanding and it may be incorrect.