JetBlue Airways was sued by a man and was charging the airlines for more than $2 million because a pilot made him gave up his seat to a flight attendant and the man sat on the toilet for more than three hours on a flight from
Gokhan Mutlu stated in courted papers that the pilot told him “to go hangout in the bathroom” about 90 minutes into the San Diego to New York flight because the flight attendant complained that the “jump seat” was uncomfortable, the lawsuit said.
Mutlu was traveling on a “buddy pass,” a standby travel voucher that JetBlue employees give to friends, from
The pilot told him 11/2 hours into the five-hour flight that he would have to relinquish the seat to the flight attendant, court papers say. But the pilot said that Mutlu could not sit in the jump seat because only JetBlue employees were permitted to sit there, the lawsuit said.
Mutlu was reluctant to go sit in the bathroom, so the pilot (unnamed in the lawsuit), told him that “he was the pilot, that this was his plane, under his command that (Mutlu) should be grateful for being onboard,” the lawsuit said.
Court papers said that when the aircraft hit turbulence, passengers were directed to return to their seats, but “the plaintiff had no seat to return to, seating on a toilet stool with no seatbelts.” A male flight attendant knocked on the restroom door some time later and told Mutlu he could return to his original seat.
Mutlu’s lawsuit, filed Friday in
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