Two female passengers, both US citizens, were tossed off a British Airways flight after engaging in a brawl, purportedly over a MAGA hat, as tensions over the upcoming US presidential election, now less than a week away, grow sky high.
Woman Brawl Over MAGA Hat On British Airways Flight To Texas
The incident occurred on Monday, October 28, 2024, onboard British Airways flight BA191 from London (LHR) to Austin (AUS). Fellow passengers observed the skirmish begin in the gate area of Terminal 5, where one woman confronted another for wearing a MAGA hat (MAGA meaning “Make America Great Again,” a slogan of the Donald Trump campaign).
It must not have been too violent because both were permitted to board…and found themselves sitting in the same premium economy class cabin, what British Airways calls World Traveller Plus.
The fight continued and it got physical, with obscenities also thrown at one another. Blows were exchanged and the woman had to be separated. Police were summoned by the captain and removed them. Even as they were being led off the aircraft, they continued to curse at one another.
Although both calmed down, it was determined they were both unfit to fly because of the risk they would fight again once the plane took off.
At least as of yet, there are no pictures or video of the incident.
A police spokesperson explained:
“Shortly after 12:45pm on Monday, 28 October, police at Heathrow were made aware of an incident involving two women waiting to board a plane in Terminal 5. A woman in her 40s and a woman in her 60s made counter allegations of affray. Enquiries are ongoing.”
Meanwhile, British Airways apologized for the delay, stating, “We apologized to our customers for the delay and got them on the way as quickly as possible.”
Handling the incident on the ground made sense, even if they both did calm down and potentially saved British Airways and the passengers onboard a lot of stress and cost had a diversion been required. The flight was still delayed two hours. While the women were not arrested, it is not clear how they made it home.
Save America
Vote Trump
@Chi … +1 . That’s the essence of this election . Even many dems in Hawaii are in agreement , because some occasionally use their rational abilities .
Why would any rational person decide to entrust America’s security to an empty , poorly-constructed vessel ?
Camel-a and Brandon are both incongruous for such responsibility .
I agree!
No takesy backsies- You already endorsed Kamala!
First of all what woman would support Trump? The grab them by the pussy guy who tried to over throw the will of the people who cannot stop lying about an election he lost by millions of votes.
The simple fact that Trump was ever elected president proves it is already to late to ‘save’ America. And the irony of supporting a convicted felon, who has done nothing in their life except steal from anyone and everyone he can (including his own family members) shows how ignorant and stupid the average American voter is. They think the guy who’s gone bankrupt 5 times, and who has personally lost billions of dollars has ‘the best economic policies’ (let’s just erase the trillions in dollars of debt my prior administration racked up by slapping tariffs on everything Americans buy!). The stupidity of it all cannot be ignored.
I particularly enjoy the trolls like Chi Hsuan (I mean wtf is that…someone little Asian troll in China pretending to be Tony Stark?) who show the world what pathetic and lonely lives they live with their snarky little girl comments and who think they are so cute by supporting a dictator. Girls, you are fooling no one but yourselves. Grow up and grow a pair and get a life.
It’s going to be ironic when you get deported if trump wins
How would you know if he is not a US citizen?
More just the common, incessant need to place a label upon somebody simply to cast them into some kind of confined space that makes it easier for the accuser to summarize another’s actions or beliefs into a general space to marginalize.
Sure, Chi… let me dust off my pink triangles…
According to the US president, the one wearing the hat is garbage.
If you are referring to Brandon – at the Normandy ceremony , the lady PM of Italy urgently retrieved him and guided him back to the group , because he walked off by himself looking at the sky .
The one wearing the hat IS garbage, just like Trump and all of his supporters. Trump has every bad undesirable personality and professional trait imaginable, he does not have a single redeeming quality. His supporters are racist, misogynistic, uneducated, stupid, gullible morons.
They’re not even trying to hide their raw, seething hatred of us anymore.
@Chi … +1 . The “community organizers” are bent on destroying all that is good .
Their jealous envy of goodness and intelligence is what leads them into a hatred of goodness .
In all fairness, after January 6th, how would you expect people to feel about MAGA? Civility seems to have fully broken down on that day. Whether you agree or disagree that was the turning point and there is no going back now to civil discourse. Or anyone hiding their feelings on either side. It’s no secret anywhere in the world that civility died on the steps of the Capital.
No, civility died a slow painful death over the last 20 years – through years of being called stupid, rednecks, nazis, fascists etc for daring to oppose the corrupt regime in Washington. Only the most brainwashed sycophants see January 6th as anything more than a rowdy protest.
MAGA may support this theory. I get it. But nowhere else in the world does anyone believe that storming the Capital, injuring 140 police and resulting in the deaths of two later, or calling for the hanging of Pence while Trump uttered the words, “So what” was just a rowdy protest. Elsewhere in the world it is looked upon with sadness for what America has become. America is broken and the world is moving away from it to protect their own as its democracy dies. The country should just split to save its people from what is clearly coming.
Further, if it was a slow burn over 20 years as you say perhaps that directly relates to the rise of your Tea Party and its evolution into MAGA? Yes, extremes appear on both sides – but from afar yours appears far more positioned to do actual damage in the world.
No one died, the deaths you refer to were either suicides or natural causes. There was however a protestor who was shot in cold blood by capitol police, I notice you didn’t mention that.
And the sadness for what America has become stems from our useless, corrupt, authoritarian ruling class who do nothing to benefit the people and rig elections as best they can. It should be no surprise that people are angry.
So true the left and their hate is over the top..Their way or No way They can wear their COmma La hats atn shirts and that is om..Intelligence you are NOT!!
@”intelligence” … Trump is a ‘builder’ … Camel-a is a ‘taker’ .
Trump is ‘funny’ … Camel-a is ‘pathetic’ .
Trump is ‘reticent and shy” … Camel-a is ‘shrill’ .
Some supporters on both sides are emotionally unsteady because they identify with what they see and hear on television . Television and social media are leveling Yanks to ‘seething idiots’ , on both sides .
I didn’t disguise my hatred of your low-life type in 2010 with the Tea Party nonsense, nor in 2016 when Hillary, as usual, was correct about you. My fantasy is the same as Mango Mussolini’s: lock up all the deplorables for life.
And yet you can’t do a thing because you’re a nobody.
Enjoy being deported to China. Thats going to suck for you. I guess trump getting elected will have one silver lining
Come now Billy Bob, that’s quite racist, and I am repeatedly told by losers like you that my side are the racist ones.
Hillary Clinton was 100% correct, when she called them “a basket of deplorables”. They are trash, garbage, literal human waste. Members of a sick cult. God help The United States of America.
Sorry, but the the Dems are the group that behave like “cultists”. The Dems are the ones that foster perversion and unrest.
As a lifelong Democrat (born in Chicago, where we get our Democratic Party card with our birth certificate) who also happens to be a pervert (what normal people call “gay”) who loves to stir up the pot, I’m happy to satisfy your pathetic stereotype and show you for the bigot you are.
Amen your are totally correct.. O’Hare you are clueless !!
Coming from the side that stripped “God” from their platform and who tells people saying “Jesus is King” that they’re at the wrong rally.
Oh, the MAGA hat-wearing didn’t start it?
Can we all PLEEEESE just stop wearing our political/emotional/religious/sexual/whatever beliefs to ourselves when traveling???
Moe, on this we can agree
AGREE!!!!!
The 2 should not fight but Harris is clearly better. She will punish the rich and make them pay their fair share. Them frequent flyer elites with 6 figure worth of miles should pay their fair share by taxing their miles or at least taking 20% of the miles. They can afford it.
I can’t wait for this to be over
That’s for sure.
We had no good choice in 2016 or 2020. We will elect a poor candidate next week. If Harris wins, I fear Trump will run again in 2028, and we’ll have to live with 4 more years of the “election was stolen” rhetoric and no hope until 2032 for a close-to-competent Dem or GOP candidate.
No good candidate is true. That is because Biden selected a DEI candidate. He made it clear that he would only select a woman and would not select a man. He wanted a Black woman, so Harris got it. She got it even though she unfairly and savagely attacked Biden during the debates to get the nomination, so much so that Mrs. Dr. Jill Biden was very much opposed to the selection of Harris. Biden could have chosen a more qualified candidate, such as Bloomberg, Klobuchar, Yang, etc.
The Republicans could have chosen non-clown candidates such as Paul Ryan, Nikki Haley, Mike Pompeo, etc.
The problem is that the American people are too stupid. They have poor name recognition of the candidates so they select the ones with a lot of press coverage, like Trump.
But Harris is the best we have because she will punish the rich and make them pay. She will do everything short of arrest them and execute them. Also make those rich people with lots of frequent flyer miles and “DYKWIA” mentality to be punished for their big frequent flyer program balances.
If Trump loses this month, January 6th, 2021, will possibly recreate itself at US Capitol in DC in January 2025, and in state capitals across the country before then.
Trump has even been doing his typical thing of encouraging his supporters to engage in political violence — most recently he’s been encouraging his supporters to fire upon Liz Cheney.
If Trump loses, I have a feeling the recreation will happen long before Jan 2025.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/01/republicans-donald-trump-polls-us-election-lawsuits
I’m only paying attention simply for the October surprise. I’m a simple man… don’t really care who’s exposed just wanna see the gloves really come off.
Thanks, but I’ll stay with the airline’s entertainment!
That IS the entertainment if you’re on a Spirit flight.
This madness will never end when 1/3 of the citizens think the government controls the weather. Old white greedhead boomers and assorted trailer trash supporting the Melon Felon in Chief.. We’re in big trouble.
Don’t worry Marv, us boomers will start dying. We’re just so tired of being told we had easy lives, caused all today’s problems, and should give up our houses before we leave the youngsters all the wealth we created, We’re just trying to make sure we spend it all so you get the inheritance we did: nada. Or, maybe, it’s the person, not the DOB.
Ah, how I long for the good ‘ole days when comments in a travel blog had something to do with travel.
An article involving a Trump hat, just what did you expect moron?
Leave him alone. He is the best ; )
Wow. I guess what I expect is for a travel blog to have something to do with travel. While the article mentioned a Trump hat the comments quickly divolved into a political arguement replete with name calling and people being castagated for having the audacity to have a differing political opinion. I actually did NOT expect to be on the business end of the name calling for wishing it wasn’t so.
Hey Paul , have you ever tried to mediate between the Marines and the Army Green Berets during a bar fight ?
One learns early to stand on the sidelines and enjoy the action .
Point taken. I’ll just pull up a barstool in the future. 🙂
I actually laughed out loud when I read your post.
Or in this case, a fight between the marines and the Pink Pussycat Hats
I was on AUS – PTY recently and someone was wearing a MAGA hat onboard in Dreams. Nobody said anything to him, but it it is such an odd decision to wear US political hats when traveling abroad. I think regardless of affiliation, it makes you look silly.
From Austin , it is to be expected . From Panama , they wear sombreros .
If you think a MAGA hat is normal attire in Austin, I don’t think you know very much about Austin. As for ex-PTY, I believe the appropriate joke would have been “Panama Hat” not sombrero.
The Biggest problem America has? Its Citizens. No respect for 1st Amendment and it shows. You people hate each other and even attack each other when you disagree. Its pathetic and shameful that two adult females cannot behave themselves in public, And they careless about delaying a flight. I’d be a true American and sue them for delay of flight.
Exactly that, unfortunately a culture that’s characterised by individualism and limited civic cohesion together with a dash of low-quality education creates a toxic mix that may only apply to a minority of the population (let’s say 20-25%) but can be leveraged for clicks/eyeballs and/or political expediency, completely hollowing out the political centre. It’s not an exclusively US phenomenon either – the likes of Bolsonaro and Duarte are examples from elsewhere, and this is no criticism of them as individuals, after all people voted for them.
Exactly that, unfortunately a culture that’s characterised by individualism and limited civic cohesion together with a dash of low-quality education creates a toxic mix that may only apply to a minority of the population (let’s say 20-25%) but can be leveraged for clicks/eyeballs and/or political expediency, completely hollowing out the political centre. It’s not an exclusively US phenomenon either – the likes of Bolsonaro and Duarte are examples from elsewhere, and this is no criticism of them as individuals, after all people voted for them. (Feel free to delete the duplicate comment that’s been referred for moderation after I put in the wrong email address!)
I think I may have used the wrong email in my previous comment!
That aside, of course it was two Americans who decided to make fools of themselves and for the citizens of our country by brawling over politics… in a British Airways flight. It’s the real-life version of what would happen if Chi Hsuan and Aaron were sitting next to each other after Aaron sees Chi Hsuan’s maga hat.
Wow, another person who is obsessed with me lol
Next it’ll be swastika hats…
More than 200 former Trump administration officials have since come out opposing him. More than 200 mental health professionals have warned that he is unfit. If that doesn’t convince someone that Trump is the ultimate POS, nothing will. Current Trump supporters are the dumbest human beings on the face of the Earth, they’re too stupid to vote and with any luck, they’re too stupid to procreate.
“More than 200 former Trump administration officials have since come out opposing him.”
Only 200? Pretty good. I would expect a whole lot more…
“More than 200 mental health professionals have warned that he is unfit.”
Any mental health professional who gives his opinion without sitting down with the person should lose his license.
“If that doesn’t convince someone that Trump is the ultimate POS, nothing will.”
Um… how about tell us that he’s the resurrection of Hitler. That might help…
“Current Trump supporters are the dumbest human beings on the face of the Earth,”
What about former ones? Or future ones? Are they also? What about people who voted for Hitler?
“they’re too stupid to vote”
So how did Trump win in 2016? Russian votes?
“and with any luck, they’re too stupid to procreate.”
I think its the Harris supporters who are pro-birth control, pro-baby-murder, and anti family. Darwin’s way of natrual selection to leave only the best 🙂
What babies have they murdered?
BTW I found the woman who started this:
America. Inconveniencing others one flight at a time.