Initially, it looked like it was a photo of someone wearing the type of a hat in question. Very often, writers would pull a Getty image to illustrate their point. Happens all the time. Not until later it was revealed that was a photo of the actual person who was wearing the actual hat.
Do airlines have posted dress codes that are specific with what can be worn on the plane? If they don’t, it leaves too much up to discretion IMO . I hate to fly, but it seems to me if a dress code is going to be enforced , it should be documented prior to the purchase of a ticket so the customer knows what the requirement and expectation is prior to purchasing the ticket.
Emilybee, read back several pages. More than one poster joked about being disheveled when there was discussion about mental illness. As for the Amanda confusion, the article linked to a Twitter page and a post by someone with a different name. @busdriver11 and @BunsenBurner are right - it was confusing.
I, for one, didn’t say that.
The initial reference to obvious mental illness was made in answer to the question of what factors would reasonably make a flight attendant think that a person who raised their hand in a response to a request for a doctor might not be a doctor. Extreme youth was also cited.
You asked how obvious mental illness could be detected. They gave an extreme example. Some people wondered whether a person who looked and behaved like that would be allowed on the plane in the first place. Where’e the joke about mental illness?
I think there was way more to the story than a shirt/hat in question.
“I know someone who was taken off a plane because of the extremely unreasonable behavior of a flight attendant, unreasonable to the degree that surrounding passengers vocally objected and then pressed their business cards on the travelling companion and said they would be witnesses. It happens.”
My mother’s 90 year old first cousin, who has Alzheimer’s, was kicked off a plane about a 1 1/2 years ago. He was traveling with his wife, who does not have any health issues. I forget the details as I heard the story while sitting Shiva for my father and kept getting interrupted but, iirc, he tried to go to the rest room while plane was still boarding and they told him he needed to sit down. They have very, very deep pockets and contacted their attorney immediately after being escorted off. There was a written apology from the airline (iirc it was Jet Blue) and the typical refund of flight cost plus two free round trip ticket to anywhere Jet Blue flies.
“I think there was way more to the story than a shirt/hat in question.”
Yes. And like usual, there is only one person’s story here, whose posts are full of anger and obscenities. Who complains about the pilot walking past her to go to the bathroom, and giving her a “smug look”. Sounds kind of odd, seeing as the pilots would generally go to the bathroom right beside the cockpit, not walking past anyone at all. I’d hazard a guess there’s an awful lot of journalistic fiction going on here.
Yes, of course, it has to be the passenger isn’t telling the truth - not that the airline screwed up. It’s not like there are stories of people being kicked off planes for the crime of wearing Arab garb or speaking in Arabic. There was even the guy ( a economist, iirc) who was kicked off flight for doing equations - but I’m sure that couldn’t possibly have been not the whole story.
/sarcasm off.
“I have encountered more than a few with attitude, however, including one on a recent flight who was extremely rude to several other passengers (not me). There are definitely some unhappy flight attendants out there.”
Yes, irritated and with attitude, but not “looking for a fight.” I have seen more than a few pax who looked like they were about to burst into flames or tear an airline employee into shreds.
Wow so many people are personalizing posts. Chill people.
That said, read back several pages, consolation. A few people joked about possibly looking disheveled.
Regardless, the thread has wandered way off topic from the physician in question.
I don’t understand why people can’t just admit - in all these cases - the airlines screwed up.
If the airlines screwed up, then so did the students at Emory a while back when they complained to the school administration about “Trump 2016” written on school sidewalks. The reason some people here are not admitting that the airline screwed up is because 1) there is a legitimate grey area here, and 2) it would be blatantly hypocritical.
FWIW, I supported Alaska airlines for kicking the drunk male passenger off the plane for catcalling the flight attendant. That was a completely fair move on Alaska’s part. This one is not so black and white…
IMO, when we hear the airline’s story about the hat passenger, then we can play the jury and decide who “screwed up”
Without hearing both sides of the story, or at least some corroboration from other parties, I wouldn’t take a position one way or the other.
It doesn’t seem to me that there is another side to the story or why would they not issue an explanation?
Instead, they issued this statement.
"When reached for comment by BuzzFeed, a United spokesperson said that the airline has been in contact with Stevens and that they have “zero tolerance for discrimination.”
“We are in contact with Ms. Stevens to discuss this matter further,” the statement read. “Both United and SkyWest hold our employees to the highest standards of professionalism and have zero tolerance for discrimination.”
The airlines are better off issuing a generic statement before they have thoroughly investigated a matter. It would be very ignorant of them to start issuing a detailed defense when they don’t have all the facts, just like it’s ignorant of people to declare “the airlines” screwed up in all these cases, when they don’t have all the facts.
Not buying that excuse. They’ve had two days to investigate this. This isn’t brain surgery or a murder investigation. They know who all the principles are. I am 100% sure they have already contacted the pilots and the flight attendants for statements.
I would not want to fly next to her. She exudes toxic femininity.
^ 8-| :-&
I’m going to get a hat made that reads Toxic Femininity and wear it on my next flight. 
Actual, that’s a pretty good band name. 