American air travel is now as lawless as the subway.
Blasphemy, assault and – yes – urination and defecation.
In recent months, viral videos of increasingly chaotic and unbelievable depravity have flooded news websites and social media feeds.
Just this week, a crazed woman pulled down her pants in an attempt to relieve herself in the aisle of a Frontier Airlines plane departing from Florida. “I don’t care…I have to pee!” she screamed. This was after she allegedly ‘threatened to kill’ another passenger.
Shocking – but hardly surprising anymore.
In March, a 21-year-old drunk traveling from New York to Delhi on an American Airlines flight was arrested after urinating on a fellow passenger.
And we all remember diarrhea port.
In scenes reminiscent of a horror movie, a Delta flight was forced to return to Atlanta in September, requiring a five-hour cleanup — and the removal of carpets — after a passenger left an ungodly mess running the ENTIRE length of the cabin. had left behind. The stench would be unbearable, while the vanilla disinfectant only worsened the situation.
American air travel is now as lawless as the subway. Just this week, a crazed woman pulled down her pants in an attempt to relieve herself in the aisle of a Frontier Airlines plane departing from Florida. “I don’t care…I have to pee!” she screamed.
If free-flowing bodily fluids weren’t bad enough, interim emergency surgeries are now commonplace.
On another recent Frontier flight, a screaming, sobbing woman was dragged through the plane by airline employees. When another man started a heated confrontation with the staff: what are these people doing?! – the detained woman then climbed over the chairs and struck the staff in her attempt to escape. Meanwhile, another anarchist broke out into a gospel song.
Truly, gone are the days when screaming babies were the worst disturbance you could expect on an airplane. American air travel is now an uncontrollable hellscape.
The role of social media in all of this is not lost on me.
Much of the blame certainly falls on ‘Crazy Plane Lady’ – aka Tiffany Gomas, aka the ‘that mother isn’t real’ woman – who was filmed collapsing before the flight due to a supposedly ghostly presence on plate.
Rather than retreat into embarrassed silence, Gomas has used the incident to transform himself into a Z-lister of sorts.
She played coy in a ridiculous TMZ interview, letting reporters know that she was “told I can’t comment right now” on what she supposedly “saw.” “Told by whom?” None of us asked for it.
In a tearful “apology” on Instagram – clad in heavy eye shadow, her hair blow-dried to perfection – she said the event had been “life-changing,” ending with a teasing note: “Stay tuned!”
Gomas now has 135,000 followers on Instagram and 190,000 on Twitter, where she describes herself as a ‘viral personality’.
In many ways, she’s right, having spawned a viral pandemic of influencer wannabes desperate for their moment in the sun.
The role of social media in all of this is not lost on me. Much of the blame certainly falls on ‘Crazy Plane Lady’ – aka Tiffany Gomas, aka the ‘that mother isn’t real’ woman – who was filmed having a pre-flight breakdown due to a supposedly ghostly presence on plate.
Rather than retreat into embarrassed silence, Gomas has used the incident to transform himself into a Z-lister of sorts. Now she’s created a viral pandemic of influencer wannabes desperate for their moment in the sun.
Shortly after Gomas’ outburst, footage emerged of another leggy brunette being disembarked from an American Airlines plane. “Call me again ab****… Shut up,” she shouted at fellow passengers, with the telling sign: “Film me, I’m famous on Instagram.” You damn bum.”
The perpetrator in question was Miami-based influencer Morgan Osman, ‘famous’ – in the loosest sense of the word – for her appearances on reality TV, including series 5 of ‘The Bad Girls Club’.
It’s hard not to see this for what it was: an attempt at an airborne relaunch – and a depressing indication, if we needed one, that the widespread hunger for escapist celebrity on social media has now lost the time and comfort of potential surpasses hundreds of others. -meaning and pay passengers were locked in a plane with you.
But what is the solution? It’s not like Americans around the world can just hit the highways when they want to visit far-flung family and friends. Who the hell has time?
And the problem is that the airport and the airlines know we have no other choice.
Consider the TSA thieves: two guards who were caught on camera in September stealing bags as they went through scanners.
At Miami International Airport, Josue Gonzalez and Labarrius Williams pocketed at least $600 in cash from an unsuspecting traveler.
Can we no longer trust that even those charged with protecting us will have our backs?
As Thanksgiving rolled around again this year, so did the inevitable headlines.
As more than 2.6 million Americans prepared to fly to their destinations in Turkey, about 3,000 Americans were already reported to have been delayed due to bad weather on Tuesday afternoon.
Shortly after Gomas’ outburst, footage emerged of another leggy brunette being disembarked from an American Airlines plane. ‘Film me, I’m famous on Instagram. You damn bum,” she shouted. The perpetrator in question was Miami-based influencer Morgan Osman. It’s hard not to see this for what it was: an attempted airborne relaunch.
See the recognizable images of waiting passengers, with thousands in line, holidays and time off from work thrown into disarray.
It’s almost as if the people who run our airports don’t have calendars – because as each major holiday approaches, so do the endless cancellations, delays and disruptions.
This is supposed to be the largest country in the world, a true Mecca of trade and industry. America put man on the moon and invented the light bulb. But air travel in 2023? Oh no, that’s a step too far.
The truth is that the state of the airline industry is a stain on this country.
The delays, epic mid-flight punch-ups, mishandled luggage, indecent exposure and annoying attention whores are just part of it. Then there are the punishing extra costs, the crippling lack of legroom and the vomiting food.
It’s hard to imagine that much-discussed golden age when air travel was the height of sophistication and luxury.
Now you’re lucky enough to board a plane without encountering anything worthy of a viral video — or worse, to have your flight unaffected by human feces.