Spineless United Airlines Pays Woman $1,000 To Take Her Foot Off Tray Table
A black man traveling on a United Airlines plane has claimed that a flight attendant agreed to give a white woman sitting next to him a $1,000 voucher for taking her feet off the tray table, while not offering him similar courtesy.
“This is why I fly first class, and I don’t come back here with everyone else,” the woman then allegedly said back. When Joseph then asked her if she would put her feet down, he said the woman called over a flight attendant and accused Joseph of “disrupting her flight” while she was “just trying to be comfortable.”
According to Joseph, the flight attendant suggested that the woman put her feet closer to the window or put one foot down, to which the woman replied: “If I put one foot down, I want to be accommodated for accommodating him.”
Full story here.
This is a wild story. It’s rife with white privilege, douche baggery, and more than a few terrible people. I’m not going to get into all of those, but I highly recommend reading the full article above to get the full scope of what happened. Needless to say, United Airlines, it has not been a great week for you. I’m just going to focus on one thing in this story, and it’s at the base of everything that happens next: if you put your bare or socked foot on a tray table in airplane, then you are a monster.
There is no excuse for this. I’m against taking any shoe off on a plane, but if you’ve got to do it then you’ve got to do it. There is no reason that that foot should be any where in sight. Putting your feet next to someone’s face is something that even in your apartment you check that it’s cool ahead of time. If you want to be filthy rich and fly first class then go ahead and fly naked for all I care- but if you’re in the fucking cattle car that is business class with the rest of the proletariat, you keep your socks off the goddamn tray table. This is common decency.
I know there’s not a lot of space on planes, but I hate to pull this card- if I can be 6’7” and not blow my brains out mid-flight because this world and its aircraft aren’t built for me, then you can keep your feet under your seat. I’m starting to think it’s time that I start a “Here’s An Airline Are You Happy Now?” business- we only serve cheetos, every middle seat is occupied by a dog that survives the full flight, and next person who puts their foot on a tray table and doesn’t respond to a complaint with a sincere apology gets thrown the fuck out. If you fly on my airplane and try to tell me to pay you to get your foot off my tray table, then I hope you packed a parachute. United Airlines, you soft, gooey, racist, dog-killing fucks, until my airline company makes it off the ground I need you to toughen up.
