A man was removed from a Southwest Airlines flight for repeatedly berating gate agents over a flight delay beyond their control. Some things never change…
Man Pulled Off Southwest Airlines Flight After Refusing To Stop Yelling And Cursing At Gate Agents
This is not a recent incident. In fact, it takes me back to my childhood. I think one reason I enjoy writing about “pesky passengers” today is because I grew up watching Airline on A&E.
20 years ago we were in the height of the “reality TV” boom and A&E launched a series it simply called Airline, showcasing the daily happenings of passengers, ground workers, and cabin crew at Southwest Airlines.
My brother and I loved watching this show and it became weekly must-see TV at our house. In fact, two decades later I still vividly remember the cast of characters that made up the series.
Recently, the YouTube algorithm has been spamming my feed with classic clips from this program and yes, I’ve clicked on many of them. Folks, there’s nothing new under the sun.
Take a look at this example, where an entitled man does not handle his delayed flight well at Baltimore-Washington (BWI):
What amazes me is how patient Colleen is with this guy. He’s given chance after chance to calm down and yet he fails to do so. I do not think anyone would be given as many chances today (for better or for worse): Bill would have been offloaded with his ticket canceled after his first childish tirade.
That is the difference we see now…there has been such a proliferation of bad behavior that giving people the benefit of the doubt (oh, he’s just having a bad day and is understandably upset) is no longer all that common.
We should all learn from Bill’s example: treat gate agents kindly because flight delays are not their fault.
Finally, please don’t tell me these things were all staged. Let me go on believing Bill was actually a passenger! 😉
If airports allow such retards into the terminals , flights ought to be cancelled .
Airport entrances must have security checks to week out the retards and fake service dogs .
If Israel and military bases can do it , so can airports .
In various parts of Asia I have long been going through security checks to access common carrier flights over the decades. In many such cases, I consider the security bottlenecks created to access the airport buildings to increase the threat to civilian users of the airports. And in those cases, it’s a sign to me that the governments value property and public signaling more than they value lives of the general public using the airports to fly out.
2 weeks ago, I was at a gate where a man was yelling much louder than this man. He was swearing, wildly waving his hands. It went on for more than 2 minutes. That man and another unrelated man waiting in line started shouting at each other, the other man telling him to shut up. A security man came and talked with both of them. The yelling man continued for at least another minute. Lots of people were using their phones to capture it on video. The man stopped and was not kicked out.
He was yelling because the flight was canceled the night before and was rescheduled for that day as a different flight number, a Delta flight 9000-something.
Did you take a video for me?
Is Airline streaming anywhere?
Bill was actually a passenger and reality TV is totally real!
20 years ago you weren’t a child. You were already an adult. Maybe you meant early adulthood?
20 years ago I was 17…I’d still call that a kid.
Yes, still a kid at 17.
Sorry about that.
I thought I was responding to VFTW.
People do confuse us! 😉
He’s the older part of the echo pod that you guys seem to have going on. But he has more of that The Jerry Springer Show thing going on. 😀