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If he paid the unaccompanied minor fee that is supposed to include supervision and oversight, then yes, Southwest should be held accountable. He should sue the woman as a matter of course.
If it really occurred the way they say it happened, they need to file criminal charges.
arrrghhh, this crap pi$$es me off! why is it the airlines fault that a major loser, scumbag was on? man looking to make a little extra money? you know, I would never think to sue the airline for something like this...
Honestly I would have said no. Sue the offending woman in question and I hope they beat the daylights out of her in court.
However, he did repeatedly request for help from employees, and that's where the airline is dead to rights wrong. If the genders were reversed would you change your mind? What if the sexual orientation were reversed? Fair is fair is fair if equality were the true objective. When it's not it's just a game of opportunist cards. Correct? Equal rights means I have to stand up for boys too.
ok, my bad, I was too lazy to read the story so now my opinion has changed...if this man was asking for help from the airline employees and they did nothing, then dang straight, slap that law suit on them!
I have a problem w/ a few points in the story. SW DOES NOT have assigned seats. If seats are available you can sit wherever you want. Also, if he told the attendants that he wanted to move cause he was being harassed they would have called the air-marshal or moved the offender to the jump seat for detained passengers.
If it were a man hitting on a 14-year-old girl, people would be totally outraged. The same would be true if it had been a man who was hitting on the 14-year-old boy.
Possibly true... and personally I plead guilt to holding to such a double standard with an exception for the drug issue. I shamelessly felt the same way about female teachers seducing underaged males students. Calk it up to memories of my own 14 year old sexual fantasies.
ok, my bad, I was too lazy to read the story so now my opinion has changed...if this man was asking for help from the airline employees and they did nothing, then dang straight, slap that law suit on them!
hey cool breeze the man was a pimply faced fourteen year old.
Definitely some holes in this story. I'm going to have to assume that the flight attendant(s) were not aware of the reason the boy wanted to move.
If a 14 y/o boy asked a flight atttendant multiple times to be reseated because he was being sexually harrassed by an obviously older female passenger and offered drugs, then I'd agree, the flight attendant needed to take action.
I have to believe if the boy called the flight attendant over multiple times, there would then be multiple witnesses. As someone that flies often, you can hear most any conversation in your vicinity. Other passengers would have picked up on the harrassment after the initial call to the F/A.
So basically, it depends what was exactly communicated to the F/A as to whether more action needed to be taken in my opinion.
My question is, can any of this be proved? Were there witnesses or is it just the boys word? The article doesn't give any details so it will just have to be determined via the legal system.
Exactly..... We're only hearing one side.
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