The woman said she was told she had to return to her seat during landing in spite of the sexual harassment she reported because there were no other available seats.
  • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    3 days ago

    I feel like an attendant should have swapped seats with her. Because a) it’s the right thing to do and b) to cover the airline’s ass a bit.

    • CrimeIsLegalNow@ani.socialEnglish
      11·
      3 days ago

      Believe it or not, you’re not required to subject yourself to sex crimes as part of your employment.

      Realistically the best response was probably just letting the passenger stand with the crew in their little cubby? I’m sure there’s laws and rules that the crew thought prevented that, because most people think there isn’t flexibility unless you’re a billionaire.

      What absolutely should have happened regardless was calling the police and security.

      • Rivalarrival@lemmy.todayEnglish
        2·
        3 days ago

        Flight attendants have duties to attend to in case of an emergency upon landing. For example, opening doors and deploying evacuation slides. For that, they have to be at their stations.

        If there were extra, off-duty crew aboard, that would have been reasonable. They could have asked if they had any law enforcement personnel aboard, or asked for volunteers.

          • Rivalarrival@lemmy.todayEnglish
            1·
            2 days ago

            There almost certainly wasn’t one. There’s only about 3000 air marshals total, but over 10,000 airline flights per day. If there was one on the flight, this guy would have been taken into custody. I’d be surprised if 1 in 10 flights had an air marshal aboard.

            • Cort@lemmy.worldEnglish
              2·
              2 days ago

              In addition to their rarity on flights they’re basically never allowed to reveal they’re an air marshall.