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Now this is just wrong what happened to the guy.
Man Says JetBlue Pilot Forced Him To Sit On Toilet. Manhattan Resident Suing Low-Cost Airline, Claims He Spent Part Of San Diego To NYC Flight In Restroom
Told Flight Attendant's Jump Seat Was Uncomfortable
NEW YORK (CBS/AP) ― A New York City man is suing JetBlue Airways Corp. for more than $2 million because he says a pilot made him give up his seat to a flight attendant and sit on the toilet for more than three hours on a flight from California.
Gokhan Mutlu, of Manhattan's Inwood section, says in court papers the pilot told him to "go 'hang out' in the bathroom" about 90 minutes into the San Diego to New York flight because the flight attendant complained that the "jump seat" she was assigned was uncomfortable, the lawsuit said.
Mutlu was traveling on a a "buddy pass," a standby travel voucher that JetBlue employees give to friends, from New York to San Diego on Feb. 16, and returned to New York on Feb. 23, the lawsuit said.
Initially, Mutlu was told a flight attendant had taken the last seat on the plane, but then he was advised she would sit in the employee "jump seat," meaning he could have the last seat, the lawsuit said.
The pilot told him 1 1/2 hours into the five-hour flight that he would have to relinquish the seat to the flight attendant, court papers say. But the pilot said that Mutlu could not sit in the jump seat because only JetBlue employees were permitted to sit there, the lawsuit said.
When Mutlu expressed reluctance to go sit in the bathroom, the pilot, who was not named in the lawsuit, told him that "he was the pilot, that this was his plane, under his command that (Mutlu) should be grateful for being on board," the lawsuit said.
When the aircraft hit turbulence and passengers were directed to return to their seats, but "the plaintiff had no seat to return to, sitting on a toilet stool with no seat belts," court papers say.
Sometime later, a male flight attendant knocked on the restroom door and told Mutlu he could return to his original seat, court papers say.
Mutlu's lawsuit, filed Friday in Manhattan's state Supreme Court, says JetBlue negligently endangered him by not providing him with a seat with a safety belt or harness, in violation of federal law.
A JetBlue spokesman declined comment on the lawsuit Monday
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My Ex has been a flight attendant with JetBlue since close to their inception. I have flown in the past on Buddy passes.
I find this story very hard to believe since Jet Blue is overly customer orientated. I know first hand of the times my Ex was called on the rug because a customer perceived being slighted, I mean I'm talking that she didn't serve a customer a cup of coffee during take off, which by the way, she wasn't supposed to do.
Having said that, I have had interaction with both Flight Attendants and Pilots. There are some Flight Attendants that might, I stress might feel entitled but it would be an extreme case that one would even think of displacing a passenger because of a jump seat. Jump seating on an airline is something that they are accustomed to.
However, there are some Pilots that do have a God complex, especially if they think they have a chance of scoring with one of the pretty ones. That being said, making someone spend a portion of the flight in a toilet is extreme.
I guess it could have happened but I for one highly doubt it.
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3 hours on the john? I really don't see a problem here. With quality reading material, I'm sure I've beaten that.
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I was thinking the same thing upside, hell i bet he even got drink service on the john. More than most other folks get there. That is just good customer service on Jet Blue's part
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OK, When flying on a buddy pass you pay the tax only, otherwise the flight is free. So this guy that got a free ride is suing for $2M. That tells me all I need to know right there. I mean he didn't get injured, if this really happened, well he may have a couple of hemorrhoids but basically uninjured.
I mean if he was really pissed off he could have contacted JetBlue and I know they would have given him free flights for maybe a year.
Now I wonder was he so upset that he didn't use the buddy pass for the return flight?
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i first came across those in Kagoshima, Kyushu Japan.
i'd been drinkknin' green whiskey and eating sashimi...
unfortunately? i was wearing my OshKosh b'gosh corduroy bib overalls....
the Locals thought they were cool, but i never wore 'em in Japan again... very inconvenient with those squat things...
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I was a little suprised when I first saw one of these. Apparantly a lot of the traditional public restrooms in Korea use 'em. Thankfully we stayed in an Americanized hotel with normal camodes, I couldn't quite wrap my head around the idea of just squating. No where to rest the news paper.
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