Either the airline is lying to cover their ass after massively mistreating some passengers, or those passengers are lying after being loud and disruptive. Based on the short video I saw, the woman certainly doesn’t seem to be unable to control herself, so I’m inclined to lean towards believing the passengers, but there’s no real way to be sure.
Considering some of the power trips I've seen flight attendants go on during covid I am going to say this is probably on the airline. Some flight attendant trying to assert their power in a super petty way.
a pair of passengers on their flight informed her and her husband that the card payment system had been broken on a previous flight as well.
Holy shit. Big - and even stupider - if true.
However, the airline refuted the claim that the payment system was malfunctioning, alleging, “There were no issues with the card payment terminals on board this flight and no other passenger encountered any difficulty making payments.”
My first thought is those chip readers are wonky. If someone else on the flight, just one person tried their card and didn't work and ended up using cash, the couple should sue the hell out of that airline.
Calling the cops on your customers when you have their names, address and credit card information from when they booked the flight is a bitch move.
In my defense the last time I got on a plane was pre-covid and in my 20+ years of flying I've never purchased a single thing in-flight. And that makes it even more crazy they don't have a policy in place for when customers cannot pay. Policy that doesn't involve:
Calling the police.
Handing the goods over before payment has been processed.
As we have no evidence to suggest any unruliness or violence, I have to assume Ryanair did this and welcomed the inevitable publicity to send a message.
That's the real crime.
They needed the bottle of water to wash down the coca cola.
Either the airline is lying to cover their ass after massively mistreating some passengers, or those passengers are lying after being loud and disruptive. Based on the short video I saw, the woman certainly doesn’t seem to be unable to control herself, so I’m inclined to lean towards believing the passengers, but there’s no real way to be sure.
Considering some of the power trips I've seen flight attendants go on during covid I am going to say this is probably on the airline. Some flight attendant trying to assert their power in a super petty way.
Power feels good. I guess some of them liked their first taste.
Holy shit. Big - and even stupider - if true.
Who knows.
My first thought is those chip readers are wonky. If someone else on the flight, just one person tried their card and didn't work and ended up using cash, the couple should sue the hell out of that airline.
Calling the cops on your customers when you have their names, address and credit card information from when they booked the flight is a bitch move.
No airline accepts cash anymore. And most require to use saved card information on an app.
In my defense the last time I got on a plane was pre-covid and in my 20+ years of flying I've never purchased a single thing in-flight. And that makes it even more crazy they don't have a policy in place for when customers cannot pay. Policy that doesn't involve:
Calling the police.
Handing the goods over before payment has been processed.
Since some flights don't have wifi most airlines just check that the customer sitting in that seat has a saved payment method.
UK getting gayer and gayer every day.
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Its not the conclusion, its the process.
As we have no evidence to suggest any unruliness or violence, I have to assume Ryanair did this and welcomed the inevitable publicity to send a message.