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[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 83 points 2 days ago (3 children)

In the footage, a gate agent appears to advocate for the passenger while the flight crew insists she must leave aircraft.

Pretty sure I’d get up and walk off the plane. Not sure I wanna be on that flight with that flight crew.

Not sure what these douche bags were thinking. Great advertisement to NOT fly Frontier though.

[–] OldQWERTYbastard@lemmy.world 38 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I'm a pilot (not commercial) and if you're still flying Frontier then that is kind of on you.

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago (3 children)

If you go to a party, how will you know which person is a pilot?

[–] OldQWERTYbastard@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago

If they don't flat out tell you, it's usually the drunkest one there

[–] sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

“They’ll tell you”

[–] WhoIsTheDrizzle@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I dunno if you're being facetious, but it's their entire personalities and all they talk about... In my experience, in general. No offense to pilots who don't do this. How people describe marathon runners and vegans.

[–] limelight79@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

I use Arch, by the way.

(I don't, I used Debian. It just fit.)

[–] sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I was trying to set you up for the punch line, but this works too, lol.

[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I don’t fly often… like maybe once every few years. And when I do my boss usually books the flight since It’s work related and it’s usually American or Southwest.

Is Frontier that bad?

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Yes. The last time i flew Frontier they had such a long delay it would have been faster to walk. No that is not an exaggeration.

[–] papalonian@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I have to ask what the flight was

Slc to smf. Detour in Denver, delayed 12 hours, got into a different flight to oak instead of smf, delayed another 6 hours.

I am ungenerous with my accounting, but I can make it on foot from oak to smf in 18 hours and that's what I'm counting (it's just under 100 miles, I am assuming I will die the next day like all ultra marathon folk)

[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 10 points 2 days ago

It is a low cost airline like Spirit.

So yes.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 32 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Pretty sure I’d get up and walk off the plane. Not sure I wanna be on that flight with that flight crew.

IANAL but it might be better for the future lawsuit to be forced off.

[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 27 points 2 days ago (2 children)

No I meant just as a sympathetic passenger.

You’re likely totally right about the deaf person.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 9 points 2 days ago

Oh durr, yep, agree...not the flying experience I'd want.

[–] exu@feditown.com 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

But you still paid money for that flight and you don't get to your destination?

[–] papalonian@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

I'm sure one could stir up enough of a shit storm in this situation to get a different flight

[–] mlg@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Frontier is the Spirit of budget airlines lol