Colleen27
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Mar 31, 2007
I figure both major players are wrong. Mom shouldn't have let the kids have the popcorn or should have kept a better eye on how they were managing it if she didn't want to clean up. Or, if she wanted to enjoy the peace of occupied kids, she should have been prepared to clean up the mess without complaint. Personally, I'd have put my kid(s) on the task - the novelty of crawling around an airplane floor likely would have been fairly amusing to them, and they're better suited for the size of the space anyway.
But United absolutely shouldn't be handing out popcorn, which even adults frequently manage to drop, spill or make a mess with, with the current state of understaffing and tight plane turn-arounds. It is just begging for an impossible cleaning task for the flight attendants, and a choice between delays to get the plane clean enough to board the next flight or complaints from passengers about the mess of a rushed clean-up to keep things running on time.
And while we're at it, Dad shouldn't be using his platform as a pro athlete with a degree of fame to whine on behalf of his wife over such a nothing situation. He's got more power and money than the whole cabin crew combined, and he's going to use it to publicly shame a flight attendant who is just trying to do her job in a notoriously problematic industry? Gross.
But United absolutely shouldn't be handing out popcorn, which even adults frequently manage to drop, spill or make a mess with, with the current state of understaffing and tight plane turn-arounds. It is just begging for an impossible cleaning task for the flight attendants, and a choice between delays to get the plane clean enough to board the next flight or complaints from passengers about the mess of a rushed clean-up to keep things running on time.
And while we're at it, Dad shouldn't be using his platform as a pro athlete with a degree of fame to whine on behalf of his wife over such a nothing situation. He's got more power and money than the whole cabin crew combined, and he's going to use it to publicly shame a flight attendant who is just trying to do her job in a notoriously problematic industry? Gross.