American Airlines Flight From Miami to New York Grounded After Angry Passengers Scare Crew

July 11, 2008 · Print This Article

With cuts to service, fees for everything you can imagine, last place for on-time arrivals for the 3rd month in a row, is it any wonder that American Airlines passengers are getting angry?!

According to a FOXNew.com report:

A holiday weekend flight from Miami to New York never got off the ground after the crew arrived more than an hour late and angry passengers intimidated them so much that they refused to work.

American Airlines Flight 1908 was scheduled to leave Sunday evening from Miami en route to LaGuardia Airport in New York City. But the flight crew arrived an hour and 15 minutes late, prompting impatient and irate passengers to boo — and worse, MyFOX New York reported.

One witness said some people used “harsh language” with the gate attendants and were “really kind of like being a mob about it. It was scary.”

When a few of the crewmembers refused to work because of the “hostile environment,” American tried to find replacements — but to no avail, according to MyFOX New York. The airline had to put everyone up in a hotel and fly them out Monday afternoon.

Adding insult to injury? Flight 1908’s passengers flew into LaGuardia, but their bags arrived at JFK.

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2 Responses to “American Airlines Flight From Miami to New York Grounded After Angry Passengers Scare Crew”

  1. Bob on July 25th, 2008 9:48 pm

    Bravo to the crew. I can just imagine how awefull these people were about a delay that was not the crews fault in the first place. Nobody that threatens a flight deserves to fly, and if there were multiple offenders than cancel the flight every time. By the way American should not have paid for their hotel rooms either but it was good of them to do so. I dont think cancelling a flight due to security concerns from passangers constitues fault on Americans part.

  2. Carolyn on August 29th, 2008 5:59 pm

    More airlines should take this approach! The american public is so crazy and out of control at airports its dangerous for everyone involed. Instead of airlines being worried about customers,they should be concerned about employees. I know some of the crew members on this flight and nobody deserves to be cursed out and called names over a delayed flight. You can’t have “gang menttality”on an aircraft. American should have made3 them pay for their own rooms and refunded their tickets

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