So Bendalot,

Now that you’ve doubled down on your archaic thinking, I have to ask. Should women be allowed to vote of they are PMSing?

Should the captain send the Effo back to deal with the rowdy hijackers demanding this bus go to Colombo?

You’re an absoloute fecking pillock.

j3

Some points worth noting,

At no time did he refuse to comply with FA instructions, as far as we know. The FA accused him of not acting fast enough.

We have all misheard instructions as a pax while wearing headphones, let’s not go overboard.

His accusations of racism appear to be verified by other pax and the lack of interest from the rozzers.

I have two family members with dark skin and both have been subject to racism on Qantas flights.

As a reasonably frequent customer of QF long haul it is my experience that QF FA’s can be overly......insistent and often impatient with customers.

In my experience as an airline pilot for many years, FA’s can be very quick to over react to customers who are not completely or immediately compliant and I would suggest PIC’s react with some skepticism and investigate at least a little before simply siding with FA’s.

To suggest he should simply “go home” is akin to installing blinkers to a very real issue QF should be paying a little more attention to.

Contrary to to one of the posts above an irrelevant point is worth noting, Will I Am is an incredibly successful entertainer in numerous fields.

There were a couple of tweets from other ‘passengers’ supporting WillIAM’s story in the media reporting , and I checked them out. (I have no life).

One was from an Australian academic (science), so it seems legitimate.

The other was from a conservative social media commentator, and was meant to be a sarcastic piss-take and not meant to be taken seriously, yet the media took it at face value- which he found highly amusing.

It would seem to me that if the F/A was targeting every person of colour on that flight as claimed, there would be more evidence than there is.

You think a crew member being assaulted and sexually harassed isn’t worthy of action?

I hope a good Captain would take action, unlike some of the other commentators on this thread who seem to think it’s all a joke and “Political Correctness Gone Mad!”

Were there any people of non colour (?) on board also using a laptop and wearing noise cancelling headphones at the same time? Bit hard to play the race card if he was the only person in that situation. Sounds like a knob to me.

Thanks TWT,

As this thread has shown (and some other threads regarding female pilots) there’s somewhat of an attitude adjustment needed towards women working in aviation. When we have a line of thought on this thread that pilots shouldn’t trust cabin crew (majority female) when they report bad passenger behaviour due to it being “that time of the month” it seems Reg Ansett’s arguments from the 70’s persist.

without context that is a funny post

Dre did write a song called “bitches ain’t ****”

Its a second hand story from long ago. I’ve always found that those who are quick to jump in and lecture others on morality usually turn out to have feet of clay.

The best people are usually not so quick to judge

Meghan Washington, Kelly Rowland etc. all are high profile characters, all have had run ins with the company.

there is something toxic in the stream. I’ve seen it. It’s real, wheither people choose to believe it or not.

the unfortunate thing is, on a plane, there is no choice but to accept the demeaning behaviour and comply with instructions because the alternative is as experienced. This company, being the primary service provider for Australia makes things even harder to object.

Complaints fall on deaf ears. No wonder, given the attitudes expressed here... :/

notwithstanding - he could’ve handled things better, but obviously the attendant was a persistent one.