Steven Slater’s Ex-Wife Questions Intentions of Passengers Who Called Him Rude

Jet Blue shouldn’t fire him. They should feature him in commercials.

Wait wait hold up pump the brakes you mean to tell me that he had a WIFE!!!!!! And You guys are claiming he’s a hero i think he need’s checked out to see if he stable.

Flight attendant has to be one of the most stressful jobs out there. Think about it. A cabin full of passengers who have had to endure long lines and people (like customs officials and other passengers) whose job is seemingly to be as rude as possible. Not fun.

@Pam: Have you ever worked in customer service before? If you haven’t, you have no idea what it is like to put up with self-righteous jerks like that passenger that Slater had to deal with and the many others that drove him to his breaking point. It is the most demoralizing experience to go through, when someone irrationally cusses you out for rules you didn’t create and are paid to enforce. The fact that you think he is the “self-centered” one in this leads me to believe you are also one of those passengers who takes out your frustrations on the attendants. Why don’t you take a look at yourself and your actions the next time you are in that situation.

oh do shut up Pam with your sweeping statements on what hes done in the past!
endangering the passengers don’t make me laugh. did you ever hear of anyone dying from an inflatable slide :D
He simply had enough and a minor meltdown but there will always be rabid bitter women like yourself who obviously don’t get their hole enough to condemn and be an armchair general on it to pass judgement like you are judge judy or something.

He probably she be fired, just because the airline is a company and they’ll have to act like one. The guy is not unstable though. I think it should be a lesson to all those people out there who have a false sense of entitlement whenever they are being waited on or served by another person. I’ll bet you guys are the type to send food back and yell at waiters…of course you are angry the “help” fought back..how dare he, right?

As a 20 + year frontline airline employee I feel we are overlooking an important fact, the vast majority of passengers in the cabin and on the ground are terrific. They are patient, respectful and genuinely happy to be travelling. They are simply trying to get to work,go home to see family. or off to vacation or the many other reasons people travel by air. Obviously, there are some passengers who behave badly. They behave badly at the dry cleaners and the market as well.
They should not travel by air because the pressures of the experience can accelerate their phycotic behavior. The inflight crew is there for your safety., they are well trained. All Mr Slater had to do was notify the Captain of what was happening in the cabin (he has an obligation to do so) Many Captains will come into the cabin to squash any potential uprisings or interference issues. Airlines do not want to divert after takeoff to remove a passenger (this is very costly for the airline and the passengers) Mr. Slater could have had all his problems solved by getting the captain involved. The offending passengers could have been removed and then he could have watched them be taken off (possibly in handcuffs)
Instead, he threw a tantrum. He let the passenger’s bad behavior get under his skin. Now he risks time in jail. for what ? Some say he is a hero, I say he is a fool who needs to grow up and find a new career. He does not represent me or any of the hard-working, honest caring airline professionals I have been surrounded by for over 20 years.
This guy is a loaded gun. Two wrongs do not make a right, I say good riddance.

Uh, yeah . . . prosecute him for the theft of the beer. Riiiiight.
Slater did what everyone of us has dreamed of doing on at least one job and no one who knows him has anything bad to say about him.
I don’t think Steve is going to have a hard time finding another job and I sure hope he works this incident into a new career.

In the above former flight attendant:
Sorry, I meant to spell pinatas!!!!!!!

Message to Jet Blue,
I am currently unemployed and would love to take Steven Slater’s job. Please feel free to contact me and I promise that I will not behave as he has.

No hero, just another nut the other nuts in society look up to. This nut could have killed or injured others, besides himself. Reckless endangerment is an understatement, throw the book at him? No just throw him out of the country, maybe Greenland.

No pity for flight attendants, none.
We pay a hefty price to fly, in a small chair, beside strangers; some of them are overweight and want you to raise the arm rest, why so they can flab over you. Others smell like they came off the beach, packed and jumped on the plane, others smell of smoke, just out of the smokers death pit at where…the airport. What is done about this? Nothing is done, tough; say something and you’re being rude. It was nice when the attendants actually took care of themselves, in shape and did not look like my grandmother or a guy pushing his personal choices on everyone else.
• The fact is the joy of flying is dead;
• It starts at the parking lot, $15.00 a day.
• Then the three football field hike.
• To a computer that requires you to focus on it while thinking are my bags still here?
• Then to check in the ONE bag at a $25.00 cost.
• Go through a line where my uneducated people are supposed to check me using wands, X-ray machines and their hands if possible, is the floor clean, no but we take off our shoes just the same.
• Oh and walk some more to a gate that has 136 seats for 250 people.
• Then the cattle line.
• Hurry and wait.
• Seat the high price tickets first, so we low life can bang the crap out of the aisle Winnies as we go by.
• Ahh, and there it is, that 18″ wide birth of comfort…until Big Bubba or Bertha comes squeezing down the aisles, yew rubbing both sides at once, even when they turn sideways then the butt and the gut rub, no, please no, not beside me, err, “Can you raise the arm rest up it digs in my sides?”, what I here is , “Hey I am fat and would like to rest my fat hips on your thighs for the next three or four hours, burp!”
No, I have no mercy for the attendant who by choice has this job, we have no choice, we better shut up and just deal with it, get real, the guy who did this is a jerk, a hero to idiots and should be flogged for all the crap we put up with.
Ahh, now I feel a little better, add drinking and driving to his rap sheet! His true colors have shown, I have to hide mine for fear of being tossed in jail for much less, be a good little worthless customer, “Thanks you for flying and getting ripped in return!”

Ah — now the ex-wife wants to get in on the 15 minutes of fame. How the flip would she know what he was like at work? Did she fly on all his flights? We’re supposed to trust her judgement of the man — given that she must have thought he was straight when she married him.

Quizwizard-don’t most airlines still have a first class? I think you must belong there! Get over yourself!

It is a known fact that there is a high incidence of cancer among long-term flight attendants. Mr. Slater’s mother was a flight attendant and she has cancer. Since the behavior he exhibited is unusual for him, according to his ex-wife and at least one passenger who has flown with him in the past, maybe he has a brain tumor. Someone should examine his head in any case!

Does he owe an apology…maybe. Too bad there are so many people who think they don’t live in glass houses that also owe many sorries for their everyday behavior and actions. People make mistakes, but if Steven Slater is anything, it is a hero for exiting the moment in a hilarious manner. I got stuck on a plane once and people can be so annoying that you wish you could fling them off…manners for some people are obviously gone or never been taught.