Airline incidents dominated April’s headlines, and saw one man roughed up and dragged from a plane, while another was booted from his flight for making a pit stop while the plane was still taxied. The airlines’ bad behavior and bad press continues, as yet another such incident has come to light via YouTube. On April 23, the Schear family was kicked off of a flight from Maui to Los Angeles over an infant and a carseat. Apparently, dad Brian had purchased a ticket for the seat next to his for his teenage son, who ended up catching an earlier flight. So Schear figured he’d just set his infant son in that seat (strapped into a carseat), since he had paid for it, after all.
The drama ensued when a flight attendant told Schear he couldn’t keep his baby in that seat. He says the attendants told him he couldn’t just switch the ticket holder’s name, and things escalated verbally until one attendant threatened him with jail over either not giving up the seat, or refusing to get off the evening flight. His wife captured the whole thing on her phone; the YouTube posting of her video is what’s drawn attention to the incident nearly two weeks later.