The Pilot has turned on the fasten seat belt light - so please return to the bathroom

This is too funny. This guy got some free ticket to fly on JetBlue, but the flight attendant decided she didn't want to sit in her "jump seat" and the pilot told the guy he had to give her his seat. He couldn't sit in the jump seat because it's for employees only and so during turbulence they made him sit in the bathroom. Now the guy is suing for 2 million. They made him sit on the toilet instead of the jump seat ?! WTF. This guy must have pissed someone off. I hope he gets the 2 mil, and I hope they try to make me sit in the bathroom on my next flight so I can make money too, it would so be worth it. I'd rather be in there then be stuck in the middle seat between two fatties taking over the arm rests and breathing heavy. Even the little TVs don't make up for that.



Man says JetBlue made him sit on toilet

By SAMUEL MAULL – 7 hours ago

NEW YORK (AP) — A New York City man is suing JetBlue Airways Corp. for more than $2 million because he says a pilot made him give up his seat to a flight attendant and sit on the toilet for more than three hours on a flight from California.

Gokhan Mutlu, of Manhattan's Inwood section, says in court papers the pilot told him to "go 'hang out' in the bathroom" about 90 minutes into the San Diego to New York flight because the flight attendant complained that the "jump seat" she was assigned was uncomfortable, the lawsuit said.

Mutlu was traveling on a "buddy pass," a standby travel voucher that JetBlue employees give to friends, from New York to San Diego on Feb. 16, and returned to New York on Feb. 23, the lawsuit said.

Initially, Mutlu was told a flight attendant had taken the last seat on the plane, but then he was advised she would sit in the employee "jump seat," meaning he could have the last seat, the lawsuit said.

The pilot told him 1 1/2 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.

When Mutlu expressed reluctance to go sit in the bathroom, the pilot, who was not named 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 on board," the lawsuit said.

When the aircraft hit turbulence and passengers were directed to return to their seats, but "the plaintiff had no seat to return to, sitting on a toilet stool with no seat belts," court papers say.

Some time later, a male flight attendant knocked on the restroom door and told Mutlu he could return to his original seat, court papers say.

Mutlu's lawsuit, filed Friday in Manhattan's state Supreme Court, says JetBlue negligently endangered him by not providing him with a seat with a safety belt or harness, in violation of federal law.

A JetBlue spokesman declined comment on the lawsuit Monday.