A woman in the US was fined $23,000 (€20,255) after she verbally abused and attacked a flight attendant because her seat on the aircraft would not recline.
he unnamed passenger was on an American Airlines flight on March 11 when the incident occurred, but wasn’t fined until last week.
According to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the woman “verbally abused flight attendants after she realised her assigned seat would not recline”.
Cabin crew tried to address the traveller’s concerns, but she refused to move seats and instead “kept yelling at flight attendants”.
The woman also refused to comply with the compulsory mask mandate onboard the plane, the FAA said.
Although she did eventually agree to move seats, she continued to verbally attack cabin crew.
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