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Offline jtyangel

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Man says JetBlue made him sit on toilet
« on: May 13, 2008, 08:50:19 PM »
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080513/ap_on_fe_st/jetblue_lawsuit;_ylt=Am3XQ4GdSlXWH4bCrDmqzHqhOrgF


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NEW YORK - A New York City man is suing JetBlue Airways Corp. for more than $2 million because he says a pilot made him give up his seat to a flight attendant and sit on the toilet for more than three hours on a flight from California.
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Gokhan Mutlu, of Manhattan's Inwood section, says in court papers the pilot told him to "go 'hang out' in the bathroom" about 90 minutes into the San Diego to New York flight because the flight attendant complained that the "jump seat" she was assigned was uncomfortable, the lawsuit said.

Mutlu was traveling on a a "buddy pass," a standby travel voucher that JetBlue employees give to friends, from New York to San Diego on Feb. 16, and returned to New York on Feb. 23, the lawsuit said.

Initially, Mutlu was told a flight attendant had taken the last seat on the plane, but then he was advised she would sit in the employee "jump seat," meaning he could have the last seat, the lawsuit said.

I would have been FLUSHed from having to stay in that cramped space for so long :popcorn:
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Re: Man says JetBlue made him sit on toilet
« Reply #1 on: May 13, 2008, 08:56:37 PM »
Did they have to move every time someone needed to use it?
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Re: Man says JetBlue made him sit on toilet
« Reply #2 on: May 13, 2008, 08:57:57 PM »
Quote from: RobJohnson on May 13, 2008, 08:56:37 PM
Did they have to move every time someone needed to use it?

What's worse is what may have greeted him when he went back in. :o
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Re: Man says JetBlue made him sit on toilet
« Reply #3 on: May 13, 2008, 09:02:56 PM »
Quote from: jtyangel on May 13, 2008, 08:57:57 PM
Quote from: RobJohnson on May 13, 2008, 08:56:37 PM
Did they have to move every time someone needed to use it?

What's worse is what may have greeted him when he went back in. :o

Yeah.

Some dude joining the mile high club alone.

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Re: Man says JetBlue made him sit on toilet
« Reply #4 on: May 13, 2008, 09:05:03 PM »
JetBlue Airways flies to more than 50 destinations and offers free TV at every seat, free snacks, plenty of legroom and award-winning service.

I thought regulations would require a seat belt as well?
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Re: Man says JetBlue made him sit on toilet
« Reply #5 on: May 13, 2008, 09:49:16 PM »
Reminded me of this story... :rofl:

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Re: Man says JetBlue made him sit on toilet
« Reply #6 on: May 13, 2008, 10:06:18 PM »
I wonder what would have happened if he had refused?
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Re: Man says JetBlue made him sit on toilet
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Re: Man says JetBlue made him sit on toilet
« Reply #8 on: May 14, 2008, 09:06:38 AM »
They are in deep doo-doo over this. The flight attendant had a seat. She was in the jumpseat. She decided that wasn't good enough and she put a passenger's safety in jeopardy. Flight crews are the only ones approved to sit in a jump seat. He was traveling on a "buddy pass" which can be given to anyone. If he had been an airline employee, he could have taken the jumpseat. No one is supposed to sit in the lavatory.
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Re: Man says JetBlue made him sit on toilet
« Reply #9 on: May 14, 2008, 09:52:30 AM »
Quote from: DixieBelle on May 14, 2008, 09:06:38 AM
They are in deep doo-doo over this. The flight attendant had a seat. She was in the jumpseat. She decided that wasn't good enough and she put a passenger's safety in jeopardy. Flight crews are the only ones approved to sit in a jump seat. He was traveling on a "buddy pass" which can be given to anyone. If he had been an airline employee, he could have taken the jumpseat. No one is supposed to sit in the lavatory.

I am really having a hard time believing this.  FAA  regulations are really clear and I have yet to see a pilot flaunt them to this degree.  I have seen pilots refuse to pull back when some asshole refuses to hang up his cell phone.  Now we are supposed to believe a pilot ordered someone into a restroom?  They would have just dumped the un-seated passenger back at the gate.

I am waiting for something more substantive.
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Re: Man says JetBlue made him sit on toilet
« Reply #10 on: May 14, 2008, 12:01:07 PM »
Quote from: freedumb2003 on May 14, 2008, 09:52:30 AM
Quote from: DixieBelle on May 14, 2008, 09:06:38 AM
They are in deep doo-doo over this. The flight attendant had a seat. She was in the jumpseat. She decided that wasn't good enough and she put a passenger's safety in jeopardy. Flight crews are the only ones approved to sit in a jump seat. He was traveling on a "buddy pass" which can be given to anyone. If he had been an airline employee, he could have taken the jumpseat. No one is supposed to sit in the lavatory.

I am really having a hard time believing this.  FAA  regulations are really clear and I have yet to see a pilot flaunt them to this degree.  I have seen pilots refuse to pull back when some ******* refuses to hang up his cell phone.  Now we are supposed to believe a pilot ordered someone into a restroom?  They would have just dumped the un-seated passenger back at the gate.

I am waiting for something more substantive.


In the account of this incident that I read, the passenger was forced out of his seat  after the flight reached cruising altitude....

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Re: Man says JetBlue made him sit on toilet
« Reply #11 on: May 14, 2008, 01:58:48 PM »
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Re: Man says JetBlue made him sit on toilet
« Reply #12 on: May 14, 2008, 02:49:20 PM »
The account I read said that the pilot himself made the guy leave his regular seat because the flight attendant was tired of sitting in the jumpseat. This supposedly occured when the flight was 3/4 of the way over.
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Re: Man says JetBlue made him sit on toilet
« Reply #13 on: May 14, 2008, 03:56:56 PM »
If the guy was flying on a "buddy pass" then he is the lowest of the low
when it comes to priority seating. I'm gonna assume this was a narrow-body aircraft.
But I can't believe the FA said the jumpseat was uncomfortable. I've ridden both
cockpit and FA jumpseats many times before and given the choice on a crowded flight, Hell
I'd take it.   
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