Flight Attendent Forces Child to Urinate In Seat

[MADem]

3. The flight attendant would have been fired if he or she allowed the person to use the bathroom

while the plane was taxiing on the tarmac.

I think people need to realize that planes operate on tight schedules, that you really do need to avail yourself of those huge restrooms in the Jet Blue concourses right next to the boarding gates, spaced at extremely convenient intervals, and if you have a little kid who pees a lot, put 'em in a pull up for a flight, just in case.

I wouldn't be willing to lose my job because a "poor little three year old" needed to pee when she needed to be in her seat, with seat belt on, because the plane is getting ready to go into the air.

The FA was put in a Lose-Lose situation. Either be perceived as an asshole, or violate very strict FAA regulations with regard to passenger safety and security.

The situation was NOT ridiculous, either--because of that incident, other aircraft didn't take off on time, and a shitload of fuel was expended wastefully. Every incident like that pushes the cost of an airline ticket up, even if it's just a few cents at a time.

The FAs were acting courteously towards the pilot, probably because he was dead heading, worked the same route, and they knew him or her, and figured that he or she would "cover" for them if the shit hit the fan.

Bottom line--the FAs, who get paid 'in the dark' for doing a tough, thankless and dangerous job, are being painted as the bad guys here, and unfairly, too. They'd be the first people to be blamed and fired if that plane crashed on takeoff and Mom and Kid were killed in the shitter while everyone else on the plane walked away.

I hate these kinds of "Ewwwww, the mean authoritarian" figures articles. Hell, why have flight attendants at all? Let people put their infants in the overhead, and bring chickens and goats on the plane....they used to do that shit (or try to) on Iran Air, back in the day!

If you're going to blame anyone, blame the a/c in front of this one that caused them to be stuck waiting to take off. Blame the airport for scheduling departures too closely for the tower to accommodate. Don't blame the poor bastards at the bottom of the food chain, who are there solely to enforce FAA regs.