A TikTok video circulating online shows a flight attendant shaming an entire flight of “rude” passengers for what was referred to as insulting and mistreating the crew during a delayed departure. According to reports, the June 7 incident involved mask requirements and happened on an American Airlines flight from Los Angeles to Charlotte which faced some serious delays.
The flight addressed the passengers on the intercom saying:
All we’ve done is [be] flight attendants the entire flight. We really did [experience] the delay just like you. We have not eaten also. We’ve been delayed here. We’ve catered to you the entire flight and we do it because we love this job.
But the fact that we get insulted and mistreated by passengers over things that we cannot control. It is disgusting. We’re just going to go to Charlotte because we do not want to escalate this, but shame on the passengers who have made this flight a living hell for the flight attendants.
One of the video ends with the flight attendant saying that they were “going back to the gate” and according to the video, this was because one of the passengers called the flight attendant a “drama queen.”
C'mon folks be nice to those helping us get back and forth to our destinations.