“We Don’t Throw Away Your Personal Garbage!” American Airlines Flight Attendant Refuses To Pick Up Pilot’s Pizza Box, Then Kicks It Down Aisle

Two bratty children A pilot and a flight attendant got into a kerfuffle on an American Airlines flight over an empty pizza box, with the flight attendant refusing to take it, the pilot leaving it in the aisle, then the flight attendant and his colleagues kicking it down the aisle and steadfastly refusing to pick it up over the next two hours. And these are the people we rely on to safely transport us?

American Airlines Flight Attendants Are Not Interested In Disposing Of Your Personal Garbage

An off-duty pilot (flying as a “paying passenger”) in the main cabin between Miami (MIA) and Chicago (ORD) shared his story on a pilot’s forum:

AA service is horrible. Last week as a paying passenger I brought a pizza onboard from the terminal in MIA. I finished the pizza and tried to give the empty box to a very femine acting male flight attendant as he walked by before departure. He said, “We don’t throw away your garbage.” I was a bit shocked at this new policy he had enacted.

So I set the box down in the aisle (yes, I know, a bit childish). On the 2.3 hour flight from MIA to ORD not only did none of the flight attendants pick up the empty pizza box…..they continued to kick it out of the way as they walked by it. It was still in the aisle when I got off. AA service really is just as bad as Spirit. Not even in the same league as Delta……or even United these days.

I’m glad the pilot admitted to being childish. I also wonder what he meant by describing the male flight attendant as “feminine acting” and hope that he’s not implying the flight attendant was bad because he was gay.

View From The Wing right notes, “There’s not enough room in many coach seats to work with the meal tray still there,” and that’s certainly true if you have a big box of pizza. Considering that economy class passengers on this flight receive a small packet of pretzels or Biscoff cookies, I also cannot blame the pilot for bringing his own meal onboard.

And yes, the flight attendant should have taken it…for goodness sake, how lazy can you get? And how lazy was the entire crew if they just kept walking over it and kicking it to the side during the flight?

But of course, this pilot is a passive-aggressive tool and could have gotten up and set it on the counter of the rear galley or at least tried to stuff it down the trash receptacle in the lavatory.

Immature behavior all-around here…