A man flying on a "buddy pass' on Jet Blue Airways alleges he was forced by the pilot to go stay in the rest room when an attendant grew tired of sitting in the jump seat. Anita Creamer said,” If that's the way they are treating their customers, we'll all soon be frog marched down the aisle to assigned seats in the toilet, and we'll have to pay an extra fee for that, too. I hear from fed-up airline employees that dealing with rudeness of the traveling public is no picnic either. For example, it's become more routine than we'd like to think for passengers to hand dirty diapers to an attendant during mid-flight drink service, after having changed their babies diapers at their seat. How gross is that?
Some people berate ticket personal, let their children wander the aisles unattended, and try to cram overloaded luggage into overhead bins. Tough for us. When we board an airline we must abide with rude passengers who if we are lucky have their persons half way covered. Airlines who over charge us, pack us in seats, and charge us for snacks that used to be free.
The California Assembly recently passed an airline passenger bill of rights measure. The bill of rights would require airlines to provide basic amenities like drinking water, clean rest rooms, and snacks to passengers held up on the runway for three hours or more. You would think the airlines would want good relations with their passengers without being forced by law.
Many years ago flying was thought to be glamorous and a privilege. People dressed up and flight attendants were polite and attentive. Now you are lucky if the passenger next to you doesn't do anything too gross and the attendant doesn't treat you like a dumbbell.
Passengers have to be considerate as well. It's a vicious cycle that someone has to break.