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Jenna Longoria was scheduled to fly from San Francisco International Airport (SFO) to Austin-Bergstrom International Airport (AUS) yesterday. During boarding she claims that she used the wrong pronoun to describe a United flight attendant and ended up being booted from the flight.
Not best #PaxEx here and United Airlines must come out with a statement : “The flight attendant has denied access to us because he said I made a derogatory comment about one of the flight attendants because I didn’t use the right pronoun”
Mom and her 16-month-old were just… pic.twitter.com/fxuoiH1lVM
— FL360aero (@fl360aero) June 27, 2024
Longoria was carrying her young son and his car seat when she accidentally misgendered a flight attendant. This was enough to kick the frazzled mom off of the flight while leaving her luggage on board. It supposedly contained both her mother and her medication, which left her at risk of becoming “very sick” while stuck in San Francisco. She further claims in an Instagram story that “they’re saying it’s a hate crime that I did and that I might not even be able to ever fly United again.”
It seems like there is more to this story and an employee that she’s seen talking to outside of the plane tells her that it was the captain’s decision to remove her from the aircraft for “what came out of [her] mouth.” It is not disclosed what was allegedly said to the employee. Her Instagram story can be found under @theperiodguru and she asks her 20,000 followers what to do and how she should get home.
What Longoria fails to mention is that there was also an issue with carry-on bags. She makes no mention other than they need their meds. I would guess that something happened with being able to store bags, an argument occurred with a flight attendant, and Longoria was kicked off. Live and Let’s Fly got the following statement from United:
A party of three traveling out of San Francisco today was not allowed to board following a discussion about having too many carry-on items. The matter was resolved and the customers took a later United flight to finish their trip.”
Anthony’s Take: I highly doubt that a captain would kick a passenger off for innocently saying he versus she. There had to have been more said in order for this to happen. We’ll see if United releases a statement.
(Image Credits: @theperiodguru via Instagram.)
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People like this are why I loathe social media and the mavens on it.