If there is a medal for “most chaotic post-landing moment,” this woman has just claimed it. Imagine: after an arrival delay of over three hours, the aircraft finally touches down; people are completely tired and just want to leave; then all of a sudden, complete chaos erupts because one mom decides to be a human blockade.
Yes, on a recent Frontier Airlines flight, a woman became the centerpiece of unwanted attention after she literally blocked the aisle to prevent anyone from getting off the plane before her daughter could catch up from the back rows. According to passenger Clint Kison, this occurred after the airplane arrived in Baltimore, Maryland.
But before we get ahead of ourselves, let’s just start with the ending—this needs a rewind because the drama warrants it. Eventually, the flight attendants were able to persuade the woman to move, which she didn’t do quietly. As she shoved her way past everyone to finally let them get off the plane, she yelled, “Screw you all!” That’s one way to exit!
Let us lastly return to the beginning of it all: Clint posted on Instagram, introducing the chaos AFTER the woman started to push from the back of the airplane to the front by ignoring all the others who were patiently waiting to get off. When others began to confront her, she stated she simply wanted to see her mom, who was seated in the front of the plane. Sweet, right? Until everyone realized she was totally incorrect; there wasn’t any mom reunion.
Instead, she stopped mid-aisle, began to call for her daughter, and, in fact, refused to budge one inch. “They won’t let my daughter through, and I’m not getting off the plane without her!” she shouted to passengers and crew. Picture it. Crowded aisle, aggravated passengers, with an unforeseen turning point – one mom believed it was a gatekeeping function.
Flight attendants, who were trying really hard not to lose their patience, respectfully asked her to hang to the side until other passengers had deplaned. To which, she held her ground. Literally. There were people yelling, arguing, and throwing fits of frustration behind her. And who could blame them? They had been seated on a delay for hours, and now they were all held hostage to a single woman’s obstinate fit.
Social media users, after viewing the viral footage, were as outraged as the passengers on board were. Many called on the airline to ban her from future flights, calling her actions “selfish,” “unhinged,” “and a perfect example of what not to do on a plane.”
Ironically, had she simply waited a minute her daughter would’ve unknowingly made her way to her—there would’ve been no blocking, no yell, and no viral embarrassment. Alas, not all travel stories finish calmly after a well-timed landing, some end to full-blown “aisle apocalypse.”
Anyways, the moral of the story? Planes are for air travel, not family reunions in narrow aisles.
