American Airlines responds to Alec Baldwin’s tweet regarding his childish attitude onboard

The corporate sector cannot fight back a rumour, or a scandal for that matter, when it comes to social networking like Facebook or Twitter. This very notion was evident in last week’s incident that involved Hollywood superstar Alec Baldwin and American Airlines.

A flight stewardess asked Mr. Baldwin to switch of his new Kindle Fire as the plane was ready to take-off. Mr. Hollywood star did not pay any heed to the request however; on insistence from the hostess he went to the bathroom and continued playing Words
with Friends.

However, something happened in between that Baldwin forgot to mention while he was blabbering on Twitter; how he was unceremoniously escorted out of the plane before the flight.

Baldwin slammed the washroom door so furiously that the cockpit crew heard the bang inside with the cockpit with the door shut and air-locked. Due to new regulations following the 9/11 incident, the crew had to respond quickly and strictly. The result: Baldwin
was declined to travel with AA in that flight.

Mr. Baldwin kept stabbing at the airline’s reputation in his Tweets and even mentioned AA’s bankruptcy, linking it to the non-sense rules they have. He also revealed it in the Saturday Night Live Weekend Update clip.

“Oh, you don’t believe that, do you, Seth? Would you really get on an airplane that flies 30,000 feet in the air if you thought a Kindle switch would bring it down? Come on it’s just a cruel joke perpetrated by the airline industry.”

However, American Airlines replied to the tweets on Facebook, unveiling the full story, emphasizing on the absurd sound they heard in the cockpit. The captain also mentioned the 2-hour delay in flight; first incident in American Airlines’ history.

“It was the first time in the history of American Airlines that one of our flights was delayed,” said the captain.

However, no matter what the company says in its own capacity, the response will always be taken as a big fish eats little fish.

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Posted by Usman Khalid on Dec 12 2011. Filed under Entertainment. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry