Jetstar passenger left speechless after flight attendant knocked back his simple request
A Jetstar passenger was left stunned after a flight attendant refused his simple request to borrow a pen.
Douglas Lazickirk was traveling from Sydney to Seoul, South Korea, on Sunday when he asked the crew if he could borrow a pen to fill out his inbound passenger card.
He was shocked by the supervisor’s reaction.
“I said, ‘Are you serious?’ And she says, “No, you can buy one for $5,” Mr. Lazickirk related Yahoo News Australia.
Douglas Lazickirk was denied the use of a pen by a flight attendant on board a trip from Sydney to Seoul, but was told he could buy one for $5 if he really needed it
The discount airline is selling a 3-in-1 pen pack for $5 on board.
Mr Lazickirk claimed the attendant admitted she had a pen but continued to insist it was her ‘right’ to deny him its use.
She added that pens were available upon arrival if he didn’t want to buy one.
Mr. Lazickirk then tried his luck with a second employee on the other side of the plane, who didn’t hesitate to hand him a pen.
“I told him the lady at the back of the plane refused to give me the pen and he was shocked,” he recalls.
‘I have made more than a thousand flights in my life. I have never been denied a pen.”
The pen saga didn’t end there. While he was talking to the male attendant, a third employee joined the conversation.
Mr Lazickirk claimed he was told it was a legal responsibility that they did not have to give him a pen.
“She said (to me), ‘It’s up to her discretion, so if she didn’t want to give you a pen, she didn’t have to,’” he added.
Daily Mail Australia contacted Jetstar, which declined to comment on the matter but confirmed it does not give out free pens.
The bewildered traveler was told it was Jetstar’s legal responsibility that staff did not have to give him a pen