Posted on 07/25/2017 5:49:44 AM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
A Delta Airlines pilot and a flight attendant flew off the handle Monday at LaGuardia Airport, causing a two-hour delay, sources said.
The 54-year-old pilot had a dispute with a 26-year-old flight attendant prior to takeoff aboard the plane bound for Portland, Maine, sources said.
He and the attendant exchanged words in the aisle and he called her “a piece of s---,” a source said.
“His conversation was racist, inconsiderate and unprofessional,” the source said.
Each alleged the other had aggressively grabbed the other’s arm.
As many as six Port Authority police officers, some carrying “huge” guns, interviewed flight attendants in the jet bridge, a source said.
Cops determined neither were injured and made no arrests.
But the crew ordered both to disembark, causing the plane to leave at 1:30 p.m. — two hours late.
Delta could not be reached for comment.
Oh, that is SO illegal. /sarc
Maybe the pilot was doing just that and she got uppity.
The pilot.
Getting to midtown and back from LGA is a nightmare. I unfortunately have to go that way about 10-15 times a year for 1-3 days.
Surprisingly I have never flow thru JFK, but a lot thru Newark and a few times via La Guardia. What I remember most is that I flew into Newark (a big hassle) and few out of LGA as my first experience with that airport. I enjoyed LGA as they have signs to the rental car return.
Before Newark consolidated their rental car area, if you missed the turn the only way you could find a rental agency was to find and follow their Bus. I hate/hated flying in/out of Newark (and I almost never use the word “hate”)
In the 1980s...most all of the pilots you came to meet were ex-military or reservists. In the last decade, I’d say that half of the pilots that you bump into (especially non-international flights)...will have zero military background. A couple of times in Reagan Int’l...I talked to a couple of the pilots who were in their late 20s....had a year of college and found the cash to get certified for the smaller class passenger jets, and had zero military time. In terms of maturity....they were missing something but they had the certifications.
I’d say you might be right.
She needs re-assignment to the Soul Plane. She and Snoop would probably get along great.
It's little better coming from CT.
I think you're close.
Actually, it's about a 54 year old against a 26 year old. I'm willing to bet that the 26 year old was raised to feel entitled, and has no respect for elders.
The 26 year old should have deferred to the pilot, who is the boss on the plane, but today's youth feels they deserve equal standing to the accomplished all the time.
-PJ
I also thought pilots were like captains of ships in that they alone were boss and the crew could be charged with mutuny.
Has that now changed?
#BFFALM
There are very few reporters these days instead we have journalists.
Journalists have agendas to promote and selfs to aggrandize.
Reporters are like military scouts who just give us the facts.
The reporter is just reporting the facts! Those must have been big cops. Because really tiny airport cops are issued really tiny guns, like the one below.
Yeh its called PIC. Pilot in command. His word is law on the plane.
My father flew out of La Guardia, as a passenger, in the late 1960’s.
On the intercom, the pilot referred to La Guardia as “La Garbage.”
I have experienced all three airports, leaving from Manhattan, NJ or Westchester county.
The train to Newark airport from Manhattan is cheaper and faster than anything from Manhattan to JFK or LaGuardia. For $13, after leaving Penn Station New York, it takes 25 minutes to the 3rd stop at an end-stop of the monorail that goes around Newark airport. The monorail delivers you to the inside of each terminal, just an escalator ride down to check-in, and/or the car rental building. Neither JFK nor LaGuardia have that kind of access, at any price (minus horrendous subway/bus trips).
From Westchester county my pick has usually been JFK even though La Guardia is closer (usually international flights)
From NJ, for domestic flights there is no contest - Newark, while for some international flights its often been JFK.
Before 9/11, Newark was easy for short-term parking to drop of or pick up someone. You could get very short term parking right under the terminal building with a very short walk to entrance that was one escalator ride away from the arrivals level or two from the check-in. Then came 9/11.
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