The man verbally and sexually harassed the plaintiffs, a mother and her 16-year-old daughter, on a nine-hour flight from JFK Airport to Athens, Greece last year, according to the Tuesday filing, which accuses the airline of gross negligence.

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I have some entirely speculative guesses about what sorts of stickers adorn that man’s vehicle, and what sorts of flags are flying in front of his house.

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Delta being Delta. Glad I never flew with them and never will.

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As someone who flies a lot for both work and travel, Delta is by far the best of the domestic airlines for customer service. Their planes aren’t as new as American/United, but they make up for it with better service. Alaska is decent but doesn’t fly nearly as many places, and they also give long, annoying “sign up for our credit card” speeches on every flight.

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As someone who’s flown internationally plenty of times, if this is your best treatment, fuck that.

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It sucks because I used to like them. Now Delta is in the same rank as United now.

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What I can’t imagine it’s how can people let that happen? Hot him, hit him hard. Stop him. Yes, I know, lawsuit yadayada, but there are situations that simply transcendent that. Was there nobody who was physically able to hurt him? And if not, like I tell my daughter, go to the guys over there and tell them, directly " you. Help me. That guy is assaulting me."

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This sounds an awful lot like victim blaming, and you’re advocating for what here? For random passengers to step in and beat this guy? If the airline attendants couldn’t control him, why should passengers need to step in? These women should rely on the random willingness of strangers to protect them? Also from a legal standpoint, other passengers do not owe a duty of care to other passengers. Only the airline has a legal duty to protect their passengers. So these people should absolutely should sue the shit ouf of this airline, because they negligently allowed an unruly passenger to continue harrassing other passengers for an entire flight when they were the only ones with a legal obligation to act.

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from a legal standpoint

Who cares?? Be a decent person and stop sexual assault if you see it.

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The point is you shouldn’t have to depend on the whims of random people being willing to help you, when you are paying money for the airline already to do this job for you. Part of the airline’s literal job is to make sure you’re safe while you’re traveling.

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Does “people” mean the woman and her daughter? Reads like it. I think you’re not considering how scary the average man is, especially when drunk. They’re considerably stronger than the average woman and can easily hurt you. And drunk men are the absolute worst because they’re usually more aggressive, less reasonable, and less predictable on top of all that. Often one of the biggest concerns is that they’ll hurt you worse if you hurt them even the slightest.

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No, “people” means other people on the plane.

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last time I was on a delta flight they unbelievably had those thick, heavy, foodservice style coffee cups. in a perfect world this wouldn’t have happened, but in a just-slightly-better-than-ours world, this dumb fuck spent most of those 9 hours doctoring a concussion.

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" Delta has not commented on the lawsuit but, in a statement to Fox Business, said that the airline “has zero tolerance for customers who engage in inappropriate or unlawful behavior.”

“Nothing is more important than the safety of our customers and our people,” Delta told the outlet. "

What a joke. I hope they win the case.

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