An American Airlines business class passenger from Los Angeles to London Heathrow on Saturday was not happy about her seat.
Flight 134 is on a four-cabin aircraft with first class, and she was “complaining she’s in [business class] instead of first class” according to nearby passenger Margalit Francus, and was “demanding the person who booked her be fired.”
Her entitled behavior got much worse as the flight went on. “Throughout the flight” she was “throwing her trash onto the next seat.”
In order to stop her, a flight attendant duct taped her into her seat to demarcate where her space ends. But that wasn’t enough her keep her trash from encroaching on the rest of the cbin.
It got so bad the flight attendant got into an argument with her and literally blocked the seat with duct tape. Of course all that noise woke me up ️
Then she proceeded to just stack her trash in the aisle so folks can trip on it.
Everyone couldn’t wait for this 10 hour 40 minute flight to end. The woman couldn’t wait, apparently.
While she didn’t like business class, she did love the business class bedding that American Airlines offered – “she decided [to take] the bedding with her” and our correspondent “got a pic of that pillow sneaked in her luggage.”
While American’s first class seats are larger than those in business class, they aren’t that much bigger.
The bedding is nicer, but the meals and beverages are very similar (in fact, American’s first class meals are basically the same as in business class plus the addition of a soup course, and the first and business class amenity kit contents are nearly identical to premium economy).
First class versus business, in this case, is largely a status moniker. American Airlines is even planning to remove first class from these Boeing 777-300ER aircraft and replace them with better business class seats with doors.
Although, for status-seekers, the bulkhead row in business class will be more spacious, offer better amenities, and be branded differently as ‘Flagship Suite Preferred’.
Sitting there won’t require class or decorum on the part of passengers, however, and they may continue to toss their trash into the aisle – even once they’ve been duct-taped into their suite.
