Hah! with those 4am sessions? pfft... all you had to do was take my coffee away!

The captain has the final authority. I really don't think he would throw the lady and her son off the airplane for just being loud. I could see maybe a gate return and then going back there and talking to her....but something had to of gone wrong for them to be thrown off. I think this story is bullSH*t

Unless the FA told the CA that she threatened him. Then I would think he'd be pretty automatic in his response. Somewhere out there, someone crossed the line. Either it was the FA or the lady on board. Unfortunately, that one is going to be tried in the Court of Public Opinion and right now it's Crazy Lady 1, Angry Xjet FA 0.

The mom has the media and other moms on her side. It could be that she was wrong but the general public wont see it that way

Anybody wonder what else the public won't see? I know that just about everyone on this forum saw a story about XJet. What did John Q Public see on the news? Continental Airlines. The only clue that it was XJet was when the reporter said "... Continental Express Jet...". Obvious to us, but not to everyone.

i saw the story on the news and they said continental airlines, then they showed the plane which was obvious it was a regional jet.

Yeah, but how many people in the general public would believe that CAL operates RJs? I would bet quite a few.

-Ben

They showed a Sabb340 and a CRJ200 in CAL colors. The general public doesnt know who operate those, all they see is Continental

I second the, "shut the hell up!" If a kid just says "bye bye plane", you and everyone else should be happy. If I read that story correctly, it was an 11 hour delay, be glad the adults were not the problem.

This is not the AirTran kid that wouldn’t sit in the seat and was crawling everywhere. That was a problem of parental discipline.

This sounds like a kid that was just happy to finally be getting on with the trip.

I normally don't side with anyone outside the industry when it comes to issues regarding removing px. But this, if it is an accurately reported story, should clearly land in the PX corner.

Short of that, your post was an ignorant rant by a child criticizing a smaller child. Pick on KIDS your own size!

I dont want to take sides cause none of us were there, I do know that almost all of us in our industry are UNDER Paid Under appreciated and OVER WORKED what I see is the public wanting to pay $100 for a round trip from EWR to LAX and demand First Class Service, this is just the start.. wasnt it a few weeks ago a comair flight was diverted because someone made a verbal threat to a FA.

Flight Attend are Under a ton of stress from company and from the passengers, and tho I am not condoning rude behavior I must agree that kids thease days get away with Murder, and Most pearents will defend their kids even if they see them doing wrong.