Sun, Nov 19, 2006
Airline: FA's Action Contrary To Company Expectations
Freedom Airlines -- a
Delta connection carrier -- has disciplined the flight
attendant who asked a breast feeding mom to get off a commercial
flight.
As ANN reported, Emily
Gillette was seated in the second-to-last row near the window
breast feeding her daughter. When the flight attendant asked her to
cover herself with a blanket she refused contending she wasn't
doing anything wrong. The flight attendant notified a gate agent to
remove Gillette, her daughter River and her husband Brad from the
plane.
In an email to media outlets Freedom Airline spokesman Paul
Skellon said, "We concluded that the flight attendant in question
acted contrary to the company's expectations. We believe our
disciplinary action was appropriate and was taken after considering
all of the facts leading to this incident."
The airline declined to disclose the nature of the
discipline.
The airline also said the captain of the flight apologized to
the Gillette's the night of the flight and "immediately requested
that they be re-boarded for their flight," which the family
refused.
Gillette denies that claim. She told the Associated Press the
flight she and her family were booted from was already three hours
late and they "...would have jumped at the opportunity" to get on
another flight.
Instead, she and her family spent the night in a hotel -- at the
airline's expense -- and rebooked on another airline the next
day.
Gillette has filed a complaint with Vermont's Human Rights
Commission. The airline must respond to that complaint by November
27th.
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