Discussion: Flier Handcuffed for Using Business-Class Bathroom

toshibatoshiba

You might think that cramped seats, lack of food, and innumerable extra fees are the extent of the class shaming that economy airplane passengers face. You’d be wrong.

You could always be handcuffed.

That’s what happened to passenger Edita Kmetova, who was recently traveling from Vienna to Abu Dhabi on Niki, an Austrian low-cost subsidiary of Air Berlin, after she used the business-class bathroom.

As the Daily Saba tells it, Kmetova didn’t feel well during the flight and, seeing that the economy toilet was occupied, headed to one in business class. When she exited, she was encountered by cabin crew, angry passengers, and one of the captains; an argument ensued and Kmetova was handcuffed. The altercation must have been pretty bad, because the pilot decided to make an emergency landing into Erzurum Airport in Turkey.
https://www.yahoo.com/travel/coach-f...164811498.html

rac7d

no chill

Scandal & Media

jonasha

It's obviously not just because the passenger was using the restroom. There was an altercation.

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Brancatelli agrees that in this case, it’s hard to say what happened. “There were likely language issues and, assuming the best intentions on both sides, it seems like the issue escalated and it became, in the judgment of the flight attendants and captain, an issue of interfering with a flight,” he says. “Passengers almost never win that one.”

toshibatoshiba

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Originally posted by toshibatoshiba

You might think that cramped seats, lack of food, and innumerable extra fees are the extent of the class shaming that economy airplane passengers face. You’d be wrong.

You could always be handcuffed.

That’s what happened to passenger Edita Kmetova, who was recently traveling from Vienna to Abu Dhabi on Niki, an Austrian low-cost subsidiary of Air Berlin, after she used the business-class bathroom.

As the Daily Saba tells it, Kmetova didn’t feel well during the flight and, seeing that the economy toilet was occupied, headed to one in business class. When she exited, she was encountered by cabin crew, angry passengers, and one of the captains; an argument ensued and Kmetova was handcuffed. The altercation must have been pretty bad, because the pilot decided to make an emergency landing into Erzurum Airport in Turkey.
https://www.yahoo.com/travel/coach-f...164811498.html

European airlines are that bad? And they sometimes talk highly about themselves and look down on Americans? At least we don't stoop that low in America!