Irishmaninaus
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Hi all,
Recently flew from Sydney to Abu Dhabi and then from Abu Dhabi to Dublin.
On the second leg, from Abu Dhabi to Dublin, there was a passenger who was intoxicated. The facts are as follows;
- I gave up a 4 seater for a 3seater on request so she could lie down. I didnt care as i didnt want to sleep and it seemed to help the flight attendants who were very nice
- at two points during the flight she turned around and agrresively accused me of kicking her chair. There was nobody kicking her chair. The second time I told her aggressively to go coughk herself effectively. Both times I made it clear I hadnt kicked her chair and the first time I was polite
- Shortly thereafter, 2 hours from Dublin she lit up a cigarette. Once I realised what was happening I stood up and told her to put it out, called the flight attendants and they also told her to stop. She did.
- She became abusive towards me and continued to do so. I'm a big boy and not afraid of confrontation and eventually I just moved to a different seat to (a) help the flight attendants who just wanted to calm the incident and (b) to prevent myself from strangling the woman if I'm completely honest.
- The flight attendants recollection of the incident, im in no doubt, was of me being a reasonably polite passenger and a very accommodating one. So while I didn't exactly sit back and take the abuse passively I didn't react too aggressively
The smoking really shook me, I honestly felt it was a safety risk to everybody on board and I was probably shaking for an hour afterwards. All I was offered was an ice cream and the seat move was to sit in a spare seat in economy beside other people. It was a move down from my three seater.
Anyway I'm of the view that Etihad should compensate me in some way as a show of good faith. Not one to generally try to get stuff out of people to be honest its not something I'll lose sleep about but if I can get some air miles, an upgrade on another fleet or something else from the airline well so be it.
I'm very interested to see what people think would be appropriate based on experiences and expectations.
Thanks
Stephen
Recently flew from Sydney to Abu Dhabi and then from Abu Dhabi to Dublin.
On the second leg, from Abu Dhabi to Dublin, there was a passenger who was intoxicated. The facts are as follows;
- I gave up a 4 seater for a 3seater on request so she could lie down. I didnt care as i didnt want to sleep and it seemed to help the flight attendants who were very nice
- at two points during the flight she turned around and agrresively accused me of kicking her chair. There was nobody kicking her chair. The second time I told her aggressively to go coughk herself effectively. Both times I made it clear I hadnt kicked her chair and the first time I was polite
- Shortly thereafter, 2 hours from Dublin she lit up a cigarette. Once I realised what was happening I stood up and told her to put it out, called the flight attendants and they also told her to stop. She did.
- She became abusive towards me and continued to do so. I'm a big boy and not afraid of confrontation and eventually I just moved to a different seat to (a) help the flight attendants who just wanted to calm the incident and (b) to prevent myself from strangling the woman if I'm completely honest.
- The flight attendants recollection of the incident, im in no doubt, was of me being a reasonably polite passenger and a very accommodating one. So while I didn't exactly sit back and take the abuse passively I didn't react too aggressively
The smoking really shook me, I honestly felt it was a safety risk to everybody on board and I was probably shaking for an hour afterwards. All I was offered was an ice cream and the seat move was to sit in a spare seat in economy beside other people. It was a move down from my three seater.
Anyway I'm of the view that Etihad should compensate me in some way as a show of good faith. Not one to generally try to get stuff out of people to be honest its not something I'll lose sleep about but if I can get some air miles, an upgrade on another fleet or something else from the airline well so be it.
I'm very interested to see what people think would be appropriate based on experiences and expectations.
Thanks
Stephen