An American woman with her 16-month-old son was kicked off a flight due to improper treatment of a flight attendant (2 photos + 2 videos)

1 July 2024

The woman thought it was the steward and thanked him using the word "sir". The lady was offended and considered the passenger’s words unacceptable.

A rather strange story happened in the USA. A woman, who was flying with her young son and mother, was not allowed on the flight due to the wrong call to the service staff. The trip from San Francisco to Austin was canceled because she incorrectly addressed a flight attendant using the “wrong pronoun.” Apparently, the woman looked like a man, so Jenna Longoria logically thanked her by saying, "Thank you, sir."

The passenger noticed that after these words the flight attendant became noticeably upset, after which she simply did not let her, her child and mother on the plane, despite the apologies.

"I was talking to a flight attendant and I used the wrong pronoun. The other flight attendant didn't like it. I apologized. I said I don't know about pronouns. I was holding my son, I wasn't thinking about anything else. They said what I did was a crime, and that I will no longer be allowed to fly on their airlines,” the woman says.

The carrier company itself reported that the denial of admission occurred for a different reason - allegedly due to too much hand luggage. However, in a conversation with a United representative, the latter reports the need for verification based on what she “heard.”

Be that as it may, the flight departed without three passengers, but with their loaded luggage, which included, among other things, the necessary medicines for the child and mother.

Now Longoria is not sure that in the future she will even be allowed to fly on United Airlines, because in the US you can look like a man but identify as a woman - and others should support you in this desire. And all those who disagree go through the forest. Tolerance is what it is.