{"id":121587,"date":"2022-01-10T07:45:53","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T12:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=121587"},"modified":"2022-01-10T01:00:55","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T06:00:55","slug":"fly-the-unfriendly-skies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=121587","title":{"rendered":"Fly the Unfriendly Skies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/americanairlines.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-121589\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/americanairlines-500x315.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/americanairlines-500x315.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/americanairlines-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/americanairlines-768x485.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/americanairlines.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It turns out that some lady saw an American Airline&#8217;s pilot&#8217;s luggage with the sticker &#8220;Let&#8217;s Go, Brandon&#8221; and she complained to American Airlines on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/twitter-complaint.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-121590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/twitter-complaint-500x281.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/twitter-complaint-500x281.png 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/twitter-complaint-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/twitter-complaint-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/twitter-complaint.png 1862w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>She cited other people &#8220;who noticed and were disgusted.&#8221;\u00a0 \u00a0Sounds like it may have been either a scientific poll <em>or<\/em> she needed to manufacture a fictitious group of outraged people to bolster her position thinking it would not stand on its own merits.\u00a0 You know, like all those MAGA-hat-wearing Trump supporters roaming the streets of Chicago during a blizzard looking to beat up people.<\/p>\n<p>American Airlines immediately apologized stating they would get it to the right people and it would be handled.<\/p>\n<p>The woman has since removed her Twitter post.<\/p>\n<p>BUT&#8230; as it turns out American Airlines made headlines in 2020 when the company allowed crew members to wear &#8220;Black Lives Matter&#8221; pins, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/business\/airlines\/2020\/09\/08\/american-airlines-is-making-black-lives-matter-pins-for-crew-members-upsetting-some-employees\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Dallas Morning News<\/a>. Some employees were reportedly frustrated because the company had not carved out a similar option for those who wanted to express their support for law enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>I actually think this is less about taking a political side than it is about being an adversary to somebody or something that won&#8217;t fight back.\u00a0 Some people are not tolerant and others tend to not want to offend.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"headline\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/american-airlines-apologetic-after-twitter-user-complains-about-pilot-with-lets-go-brandon-sticker\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">American Airlines apologetic after Twitter user complains about pilot with &#8216;Let&#8217;s Go Brandon&#8217; sticker<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/travel\/general\/airlines\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">American Airlines (AA)<\/a>\u00a0went viral after responding to a Twitter user Saturday who complained about a pilot because he had a &#8220;Let&#8217;s Go Brandon&#8221; sticker on his luggage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">A Twitter user who has since made her Twitter account\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/danacfinley\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">private<\/a>\u00a0took a picture of the sticker and sent it to the airline, asking if they accept &#8220;cowardly rhetoric on their crew luggage when they&#8217;re in uniform.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">&#8220;We are not the only passengers who noticed and were disgusted,&#8221; the user added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">The official Twitter account of AA responded to the user&#8217;s public complaint, tweeting, &#8220;Thank you for bringing this to our attention and we want to get this to the right team. Please DM any additional details.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">The user went on to post what she claimed were direct messages with representatives for the airline, who assured her that her complaints had been forwarded to the proper authorities for internal review.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">&#8220;We take this very seriously and have sent this over to crew leadership,&#8221; AA said in response to a direct message from the Twitter user who accused the pilot of displaying political propaganda supporting insurrection against the U.S. government. &#8220;They will handle this internally after review. We assure you appropriate internal review will occur.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">The complaint was met with ridicule from other users on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">&#8220;Hope he and everyone else gets a raise for having to deal with Karen passengers such as this one,&#8221; tweeted journalist Mollie Hemingway.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It turns out that some lady saw an American Airline&#8217;s pilot&#8217;s luggage with the sticker &#8220;Let&#8217;s &hellip; <a title=\"Fly the Unfriendly Skies\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=121587\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Fly the Unfriendly Skies<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":663,"featured_media":121589,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[613,478,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-joe-biden","category-none","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/663"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=121587"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121591,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121587\/revisions\/121591"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/121589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=121587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=121587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=121587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}