Sit on the Toilet and Shut Up!
Gokhan Mutlu
Filed a 2 million dollar lawsuit against JetBlue Monday for "emotional and psychological trauma" After being forced to "hang out" in the bathroom for half of his cross country flight.
Excerpt:
" He was told the flight was full, but a stewardess told him that he could take her assigned seat and that she would sit in the "jump seat," said his lawyer, Zafer Akin.
Mutlu was issued a boarding pass and took Seat 2E, but got a rude awakening as he dozed off about 90 minutes into the red-eye flight, he claims.
The pilot called him to the front and "advised the plaintiff that he would have to give his seat up" to the flight attendant, the suit says.
The pilot told him the "flight attendant wanted to be more comfortable and that the 'jump seat' was not comfortable for her."
A stunned Mutlu asked whether that meant he was supposed to sit in the jump seat for the rest of the five-hour flight, but the pilot told him that would be against regulations, Akin said.
The pilot told him to "hang out" in the bathroom," the suit says, adding the stewardess took Mutlu's seat, "closed her eyes and pretended to sleep. "
So the stewardess tells him he can sit in her seat until she finds out the jump seat isn't all that comfortable and then makes the pilot get her seat back. What a bitch. I also like that she pretended to be asleep after getting her seat back. Shouldn't she have been working? The article says it was a cross country flight didn't she have pretzels to give out? Was she off-duty?
Also, I like that the pilot told him to "hang out" in the bathroom. How much "hanging out" can you really do in those small airplane bathrooms? And I thought they discouraged that sort or behavior.
Source: AIRLINE SAT ME ON CAN [NYPost]