On Tue, 13 May 2008 10:30:07 -0400, Dudley Henriques
wrote:
>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.
I had the very opposite happen to me on a trans-atlantic flight,
I had gone to the bathroom when the plane ran into turbulence.
It was pretty severe and I tried to leave the bathroom, a flight
attendant was sitting nearby, he got up helped me to his seat
and strapped me in, then went to find another place where
he could sit.
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