A married couple got a bit too giddy on a JetBlue flight to Florida and were arrested for trying to join the Mile High Club from row 25…in full view of children and other passengers around them.

Couple Performs Sex Acts On JetBlue Flight In Front Of Kids, Arrested Upon Landing

A couple from Connecticut was arrested after engaging in what witnesses described as a very public sex act on a JetBlue Airbus A220 flight from New York (JFK) to Sarasota (SRQ), drawing shocked reactions from fellow passengers, including children, and leading to felony charges.

According to a probable cause affidavit, the married couple, Trista Reilly, 42, and Christopher Arnold, 43, allegedly performed lewd and lascivious acts in full view of passengers around them during JetBlue flight 163 on Saturday, July 19, 2025.

A flight attendant told police that multiple passengers—including a mother and her two young children—reported that Reilly and Arnold were “performing sexual activity” in their seats in row 25. When the flight attendant walked back to assess the situation, he reportedly saw Reilly “making up and down movements with her head while she was facedown on Mr. Arnold’s lap.”

Witnesses say Reilly was seen “performing oral sex and jerking off Mr. Arnold,” with no effort to hide it, even as it became clear that children were watching.

A female passenger, traveling with her two kids, said in a written statement: “She noticed that my two kids was watching them and they didn’t stop. After that she was laying on him like if she was doing oral sex.”

Upon landing in Sarasota, Florida, both Reilly and Arnold were taken into custody and booked into the Sarasota County Jail on felony charges. They were released on their own recognizance on Monday, pending further investigation into jurisdiction. The pair is scheduled to appear in court on August 15.

Court records indicate this is Reilly’s first brush with the law. Arnold has a 2004 marijuana conviction and was arrested earlier this year on assault/disorderly conduct charges in Connecticut.

CONCLUSION

I was talking to Kyle about this and said, “Couldn’t they have at least gotten up and used the lavatory?” His response was, “Or wait until they landed?” Yep.

I’m thinking that since Arnold may have been a stoner, perhaps he was “lit” and that impaired his judgment? It’s one thing to do this in the privacy of a first class cabin with doors closed or in a lavatory, but quite another to do it in coach class in front of onlookers. When it became clear that kids were watching, and they did not stop? Yep, felony indeed.

As always, the greater takeaway is that self-control is a wonderful thing.