"Dudley Henriques" wrote in message
news:O7ydndbFlvNyOLTVnZ2dnUVZ_q7inZ2d@rcn.net...
> JetLoo wrote:
>> http://www.nypost.com/seven/05132008/news/regionalnews/airline_sat_me_on_can_110626.htm
>> AIRLINE SAT ME ON CAN
>> $2M SUIT VS. JETBLUE
>>
>> By DAREH GREGORIAN
>>
>> May 13, 2008 -- A JetBlue pilot forced a Manhattan man to sit on the
>> toilet for three hours during a cross-country flight to free up his
>> seat for a stewardess, the flush-with-fury passenger charges in a $2
>> million lawsuit filed yesterday.
>>
>> Gokhan Mutlu claims the experience made him feel like a first-class
>> loo-ser - and his Manhattan Supreme Court suit says that he suffered
>> "emotional and psychological trauma" and that the JetBlue crew
>> "publicly . . . humiliated and dishonored" him. "In the middle of the
>> flight, the pilot told me to go to the bathroom
>> and have a seat," Mutlu told The Post from his home in upper Manhattan
>> last night. "I guess the flight was overbooked, and I didn't want to make
>> a big
>> deal in front of the other passengers, so I just had a seat. "I don't
>> feel good. I was humiliated." Mutlu says the can-finement happened Feb.
>> 23, when he was a standby
>> passenger for a flight from San Diego to New York. 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. When Mutlu argued, the pilot advised him that "this
>> was his plane,
>> under his command, and that [he] should be grateful for being
>> onboard," the suit says. "The plaintiff walked to the back of the plane,
>> trying to hide and
>> cover his face," and "stepped into the bathroom, closed the door and
>> locked it," the suit says. Soon after, the plane ran into turbulence.
>> While other passengers were
>> ordered to buckle up, Mutlu was "sitting on a toilet stool with no
>> seat belts," the suit claims. "He was looking for things to hold on to,"
>> Akin said. After landing, the suit says, the pilot asked Mutlu "if
>> everything was
>> OK." "The pilot said, 'I don't think you appreciate what I did for you.'
>> My
>> client said, 'You locked me in the bathroom,' " Akin said. "I brought you
>> home," the pilot countered. Akin said his client would have been happy to
>> wait for a later flight,
>> and probably wouldn't have sued had the crew let him sit in the jump
>> seat. JetBlue said it doesn't comment on pending litigation.
>
> I for one will be VERY surprised if this story turns out to be as this
> person claims it happened.
>
>
> --
> Dudley Henriques
Be interesting what the airline says, the truth will be somewhere in the
middle I'm sure. I'm not a "sue happy" person and think most lawsuits are
frivolous bullshit but in this case I think I'd talk to a lawyer too.
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