United Airlines Captain On Diverting Flight: ‘Hey Kids, This Isn’t A School Bus’
A United Airlines captain is heard discussing with the company whether or not he’s going to need to divert the flight, because “three schools” are on the plane “climbing over the seats” and “this isn’t a school bus.”
We have three schools that were traveling together. They’re all in the back of the airplane. They’re climbing over the seats, they’re not being respectful of the airplane.
My FO and I were talking about it. We get it, that they’re kids they want to have fund and they’re with their friends. Unfortunately this isn’t a school bus and they’ve been very disrespectful to the flight attendants in the back. And we’re trying to figure out, if they don’t calm down, our next course of action to divert to one of the bases and kick them off or [inaudible] pretty beside myself with the actions that have…