JetBlue Apologizes; Bans Political Pins on Crew-members

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Jet Blue airlines has apologized and changed a longstanding policy after a disturbing incident on one of their flights went viral on social media this week.

By COLlive reporter

Jet Blue airlines has apologized and changed a longstanding policy after an incident on one of their flights went viral on social media this week.

The disturbing incident was shared by a Jewish passenger on a Jet Blue flight, who was accused of ‘causing a disturbance’ after he objected to a flight attendant’s Palestine flag pin.

Paul Faust, 54, shared on video that on a flight to Las Vegas, Nevada on Sunday, he felt uncomfortable by the pin worn by the flight attendant, but he opted to remain quiet about it. He said that when the crew member put on an apron for serving drinks and moved the Palestine pin on top so it still showed, he took it as a deliberate provocation, especially since she was wearing several other pins, including a Black Lives Matter pin, which she did not move over her apron, he said.

The Parkland, Florida-based telecoms entrepreneur said that he quietly made a complaint about the pin to a supervisor on the plane.

“I said: ‘I don’t want there to be an issue. Maybe speak with her after we leave the plane. Just talk about how it was maybe a little insensitive, it made me feel a little uncomfortable,’” he relates.

But when the plane landed, he said, a uniformed official approached him and demanded to see his ID, claiming he caused a disturbance on the plane. The official then called the police. Faust left quickly, but found out later that the airline had canceled his return flight.

When he called customer service, he said he was shocked by what they told him.

“They read me the notes. It said ‘Mr. Faust caused a disturbance on the flight, did not listen to flight crew instructions’ – not true, there was no instruction I was given – ‘didn’t listen to the supervisor at the gate… And Mr. Faust said everyone should go to Gaza so they can be killed.’

“That was not true at all,” he said.

Faust, who is Jewish, is accusing the airline of ‘blatant antisemitism’ over the incident.

Multiple passengers on the flight confirmed Mr. Faust’s version of the story to the Daily Mail.

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