New York, NY – A woman From New York claims her family of nine was unceremoniously booted from a Jet Blue flight on Tuesday just as they boarded for a vacation and that the incident was incited by a flight attendant with “an attitude” who referred to her family as “animals.”
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In a lengthy Facebook post on her homepage, Keren Ashkenazi Kimchy states that her “family vacation” to Punta Cana got off to a rocky start when after breakfast and clearing security at JFK Airport her brother-in-law was antagonistically confronted by a flight crew member sporting an “attitude” as he attempted to place some bags in plane’s overhead storage bins.
‘As we were setting down all our stuff in the overhead bins, she had asked, my brother in law, with an attitude, if he could move out of the way that other passengers could go through,” Kimchy writes.
Kimchy said her brother-in-law’s cordial request that he be allowed to put his bags down was then met with shouting from the flight attendant.
“This is my plan, this is my show, are we going to have a problem, if so I could move you to the next flight with no problem!” Kimchy claims the attendant then shouted.
Ultimately, Kimchy says, the entire family of nine—5 adults and 4 children under the age of 4—was declared “unfit” for flight and escorted off the plane by uniformed police.
To make matters worse, Kimchy writes, as they were exiting the plane her daughter overheard the flight attendant’s announcement to other passengers that the flight could proceed now that “the animals” had been removed.
FOXNEWS.com (http://fxn.ws/1kefpL6) reports that a Jet Blue spokesman said only that the airline welcomes thousands of families every day, and that the, “The decision to remove someone from a flight is never taken lightly and happens only if it is clear that the customer poses a risk to the safe and comfortable operation of the flight.”
How about an apology from JetBlue management? What about “The customer is always right?” In most cases of customer mistreatment, there is an apology and investigation and some kind of compensation is offered to the customer. I guess if the customer is Jewish, that doesn’t apply. This bland statement by the JetBlue spokesman is wimpy, insufficient and unacceptable. Remind me never to fly on JetBlue!
Dear Mrs. Kimchy,
I hope that on your flights to Israel you choose Elal even if a bit more expensive than the goyish airlines.
I’m sure someone recorded this exchange…let the lawyer find them
From the accounts of other passengers interviewed by the media after the flight, this guy (aka the brother-in-law from gehenom) was abusive to the flight attendant and failed to respond when he was directed to sit down and get out of the aisle. There are federal rules that require passengers to follow the directives of flight attendants. If you think they have been rude or unfair, than write a letter of complaint when you land to the customer affairs office of the airline. This guy should be put on a “no-fly” list until he learns to follow instructions.
I wasn’t there; but if I had to guess, I would say that the family could have avoided the problem and not caused what was probably a Chilul Hashem. Attitude, shmattitude, he should not have blocked the aisle by putting stuff in the overhead bin. You put it on your seat, and then when everyone passes, you put it in then.
A major problem is that over the last 10 years or so, the FAA has made the flight attendants into godlike creatures and it has gone to these flight attendants heads. I’ve seen, so many times, flight attendants being nasty and rude to passengers for no reason whatsoever so something like this wouldn’t surprise me in the very least.
I’m going to guess there is more to the story than reported here.
All the kids were under 4 years. Of age, and the daughter heard the statement about the animals? Won’t be believed.
sounds fishy to me, I have had to move over to allow people to come past: BIG DEAL. but to cause everyone else to wait for me to finish is certainly not considerate.
But then again, I was not there, just talking ya know…
I avoid all of these issues by checking in ALL of my bags. It is really annoying when people overstuff the overhead bins unnecessarily. Until recently, Jet Blue allowed one free bag to be checked. Why bring it aboard when you don’t have to.
flight attendant’s bark is bigger than her bite. Calling someone an “animal” is uncalled for.it’s inhuman and should be suspended without pay.
This is a clear case of anti semitism, period. These are obviously recognizable Jews. Actually, I would not be surprised if the flight attendant was a secular self hating Jew as well. Mark my words.
What are the chances this angelic, smiling man with his beautiful family is not telling what he really behaved like when he didn’t get his way on board the flight and was told to hurry along? Perhaps Jet Blue doesn’t publicly share the dirty details of the flyers own attitude, profanities, degrading words and screaming voice because it’s not professional? Jet Blue has a hub in New York. Pretty sure they embrace the Jewish population from whence their bottom line grows and where they probably live as well. C’mon-the entire family does not have to be taken off-only those who are growing hostile or present a possible threat to the rest of the air experience for the other 100 travelers. Does anybody fly enough to have known this much? Because an airline never goes into great detail- the disgruntled party gets to tell a story without recourse. Jet Blue has a reputation for great service. You don’t get there by being prejudice, unfair, flippant and condescending. It’s so easy to go straight to the prejudice card. I expect better from a community. Keep perspective….people.