So this guy was on a JetBlue flight from California to New York last February. He got on as a standby passenger along with a flight attendant who was dead-heading. An hour or so into the flight the attendant decided the jump seat was too uncomfortable for her and that she wanted her seat back. The gate agent had given our poor guy the seat assuming the flight attendant would use the jump seat.
So the pilot tells the guy he can't use the jump seat because it is for "personnel only," and that our poor guy should go "hang out in the bathroom." That's where he spent the next three hours. After a while the plane hit some turbulence and the pilot ordered our guy back to his seat. At the end of the flight the pilot asked our hero if "everything was all right."
The guy is now suing the airline for $2,000,000. I am not a big fan of stupid lawsuits, but I have to tell you, I hope our guy wins and I hope he wins big. I know for a fact if I was on this flight and I saw this happen to someone I would most assuredly make fun of that person, so suing for the humiliation he suffered is exactly in line.
Fuel costs don't put airlines in trouble, avarice and arrogance do. I have flown way more than my share in my life and pretty much every negative thing you hear about airline personnel is true.
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