TYT’s Cenk Uygur booted from American Airlines flight because pilot wasn’t ‘comfortable'

[passiveporcupine]

154. I don't remember hearing that, but that is not the point

this time, because a lot of people were angry, and Cenk started filming it and finally trying loudly to get answers from a supervisor, who was finally called in, the supervisor got on the phone and they got a plane called out.

Cenk said all the morning flights were already booked, so if they had not gotten a flight out that night they would have been stuck there till later the next day, unless they could get on another airline.

Cenk did not start this, and he was not the first one shouting. there was a group shouting at each other for some time before he got involved, other than to film it. Why are you blaming this all on him? And are you sure that camera and all the shouting people are not why the supervisor finally got a plane out of the hangar.

For three hours at least, they were shuffled from gate to gate and told a plane was coming out, and it never did. Not until they started yelling and got a supervisor down there to make some calls and get it done.

Did it have to escalate like that? I'm not sure what AA's policies are, but it sounds like maybe this is kinda standard for them, and if so, maybe it was time to call them on it.