Gadling

Don't you wish airlines would do that ? But then again, lets not forget who sells the alcoholic beverages to their passengers ? What goes around comes around. But that's not a good thing for other passengers.

John Casey give me a break. The majority of first class passangers are there on miles that their company paid for. No money ever came out of their pocket. If not paid for by company they earned the miles by having them credited from a credit card that offers miles for every dollar spent. Shame on the flight attendents for serving him enough to get drunk. They should have cut him off.

Your an idiot!

Yeah... There's this thing called "patience." Radical idea, I know. But if people would exercise it more often, fewer wars would be fought.

If you are going to treat first class like economy then why charge more? It doesn't matter who paid for the ticket, first class is first class.

airlines, take notice:
having paid a premium price, a customer most certainly may expect preferred treatment.

Almost all passengers I have encountered think they are owed something. If you charge the passenger for releasing the exit and wasted time, then how about we all start charging the airlines for our time wasted and the real cost of our lost luggage. How about the airlines charge all the idiots who bring on luggage too large to fit in the overhead. Oh yeah and while we are talking about people who think they deserve special treatment, anyone too big to fit in your seat, buy two!!!!! or three or however many you need! Go business or first class.
Try sitting next to some lard a@# for 25 hrs who is too cheap to purchase a seat big enough for them!
There are some flight attendants who like the power they have been given since 9/11. They need to be brought back inline. We have tried to limit our flying because of the TSAs lack of knowledge of their own policies and think they know it all flight attendants.

Thanks Diann- for recognizing the rude behavior of the economy class passengers. I can't condone what the idiot did with the emergency exit. But as one who flies first class as a special treat when my personal miles accumulate, I cannot believe the awful behavior of people pushing forward from the economy section. It just seems to go with all the "me first" attitudes in today's society!

I've worked for a major airline for nearly thirteen years in those thirteen years I can count on two hands how many airline first class passengers actually paid full price for their first class ticket. Like it was mentioned before 99% of first class passengers are there on company paid miledge points or they earned points by charging up their own personal miledge earning charge cards. Regardless, if the idiot wasn't intelligent enough to say excuse me step into the aisle and walk off first or too drunk to function he needed to remain seated and sober up. Pulling the chute, which deploys at 300 plus miles per hour was not only stupid but could have killed rampers on the ground, hit a fuel truck and caused an explosion, or damaged nearby airplanes and vehicles. If the 200 lb door had by some chance malfunctioned upon chute release it would have been propelled several hundred feet killing and detroying anything in its path. But, hey...at least the drunk A** would be off before the other less important passengers....like you all said, good for him, he'll show those big mean airlines for making him fly and wait to get off!!!!

Karaina
I'm fair skinned, blue eyed with light hair and I get pulled many times so the airlines can show they are not "racial profiling." Doesn't bother me. People who complain would be the first to sue the airlines and government if they lived through a terrorist threat on a plane.
BTW I'm NOT involved with the airlines or security in any way. I just never want to see another 9/11 or hijacking. That's what will happen when we become complacent again.