WindHarvester
Bronze Member
NEW YORK— It has been a long time since flight attendant was a glamorous job title. The hours are long. Passengers with feelings of entitlement bump up against new no-frills policies. Babies scream. Security precautions grate but must be enforced. Airlines demand lightning-quick turnarounds, so attendants herd passengers and collect trash with the grim speed of an Indy pit crew. Everyone, it seems, is in a bad mood.
Yesterday, on the tarmac at New York's Kennedy International Airport, a JetBlue attendant named Steven Slater decided he had had enough, the authorities said.
After a dispute with a passenger who stood to fetch luggage too soon on a full flight just in from Pittsburgh, Slater, 38, and a career flight attendant, got on the public address system and let loose a string of invective.
Then, authorities said, he pulled the lever that activates the emergency-evacuation chute and slid down, making a dramatic exit not only from the plane but, one imagines, also his airline career.
On his way out the door, he paused to grab a beer from the beverage cart. Then he ran to the employee parking lot and drove off, the authorities said.
FULL STORY BELOW:
http://www.dispatch.com/live/conten...08/10/flight-attendant-flies-off.html?sid=101
Yesterday, on the tarmac at New York's Kennedy International Airport, a JetBlue attendant named Steven Slater decided he had had enough, the authorities said.
After a dispute with a passenger who stood to fetch luggage too soon on a full flight just in from Pittsburgh, Slater, 38, and a career flight attendant, got on the public address system and let loose a string of invective.
Then, authorities said, he pulled the lever that activates the emergency-evacuation chute and slid down, making a dramatic exit not only from the plane but, one imagines, also his airline career.
On his way out the door, he paused to grab a beer from the beverage cart. Then he ran to the employee parking lot and drove off, the authorities said.
FULL STORY BELOW:
http://www.dispatch.com/live/conten...08/10/flight-attendant-flies-off.html?sid=101
