 Re: Too Much Work
I think travel just makes some people nervous. They are out of their element (no movie quotes please...) and they tend to lash out in what ever way possible. We've all seen the husband/wife duo going at each other in the airport over the stupidest stuff. Sure, maybe some of them are like that every day, but the divorce rate would be a lot higher if they all were (or there would be a lot more practicing catholics).
All three of us (the crew yesterday) really did feel bad for this girl who we kicked off. She was going international to go back to school and for what ever reasons she was just incapable of traveling. We hashed it out several times on the flight back up to Philly once we kicked her off and we truly believe that we did it by the book and gave her every chance to cooperate. Even the cops gave her several chances to walk off the airplane before they had to cuff her and drag her down the steps.
Actually, a funny part of the story that I left out...
There was an Airways-west 320 parked to our left that was in the process of doing a turn. Our jumpseater was an Airways-east guy and made some comment about how much he got screwed on seniority (18 years actually) but then went on to say, he really hope the lists just get merged soon so everybody can move on. Anyhow, as the cops are dragging this woman down the steps and across the ramp to their car) both 320 pilots are pressed up against the FO's side windows watching. I looked back at out jumpseater and said "we should go over there and be like 'yeah, dawg... this is how we roll on the east side'."
It did break some of the tension from having to boot the passenger. |