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A lawsuit alleges that a drunk passenger on a Delta Air Lines flight between New York-Kennedy (JFK) and Athens, Greece (ATH) sexually assaulted a mother and daughter.
According to the New York Post, the alleged attacker:
- “frightened” the teen by putting his hands on her back, making “obscene gestures,” screaming, and demanding she tell him her address and other personal information, the family claims.
- told the mom he “did not care” the daughter was a minor.
- gave the mother and daughter a brief reprieve by heading to the bathroom to “loudly” puke before returning with a glass of wine, they contend.
The accused apparently consumed 11 drinks, too. Lovely.
When the mother complained to a flight attendant, she was purportedly told to “be patient.” And when she insisted Delta contact law enforcement, the mother said a flight attendant instructed her to “calm down and think about it.”
There are some even more lurid details you can read here. The offending passenger was not detained upon landing in Athens.
The $2,000,000 lawsuit says Delta compensated the mom and 16-year-old young lady 5,000 SkyMiles each. The Post says, “Delta declined to comment on the lawsuit but insisted it ‘has zero tolerance for customers who engage in inappropriate or unlawful behavior.'”
I’m curious what the cabin crew says about this situation. If they told the mother to “be patient” and “calm down and think about” calling the police, was the whole tale made up? Exaggerated? Do they know the passenger and are covering for him?
And is 5,000 SkyMiles some admission of wrongdoing on the airline’s part? If so, that’s pretty bad.
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I don’t believe the allegations for a second. There’s no way a flight attendant would serve 11 drinks to a passenger in economy class on an international flight. You would struggle to even get 11 drinks in business-class.
I’m sure Delta did their due diligence investigating. Personally I don’t believe the allegations and maybe the 5000 miles isn’t true either.
A former DL flight attendant told me she believes the story, and then went on to relate her own experience with a drunken passenger assaulting her (groping her breast) on a flight coming back from Europe. She stopped serving him and told the other FA’s. But her fellow FA;s continued to serve him. He continued acting out both on the plane and on the way through customs. She reported the incident when she landed and was told to get over it. No support at all from DL.
I’m not saying a drunk passenger didn’t behave inappropriately or even unlawfully. What I am saying is there’s no way an economy passenger received 11 drinks on a daytime flight from Europe to the US.