*The Donald Trump supporter who unleashed a curse-filled rant aboard a Delta flight from Atlanta to Allentown, Pennsylvania, has been barred from flying with the airline, CEO Edward Bastian said Monday.
In a company memo sent to Delta employees, Bastian wrote that the passenger who was “loud, rude and disrespectful to his fellow customers” on Flight 248 will “never again be allowed on a Delta plane.”
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A video posted on Facebook by a passenger on the Nov. 22 flight shows a man standing in the aisle, calling passengers “Hillary b—-es” when his boisterous salute to the president-elect received a tepid response from most of the 101 other passengers.
“He’s your president. Every goddamn one of you. If you don’t like it, too bad,” he continued before finally sitting down.
Questions arose after learning that the man, who has yet to be identified, was not escorted from the plane.
Bastian noted if crew members had “witnessed firsthand what was shown in the video, there is no question they would have removed him from the aircraft.”
The Atlanta-based airline had previously apologized over the incident, and Bastian added Monday that passengers onboard the flight would get a full refund of their tickets.
“The heightened tension in our society means that now more than ever we must require civility on our planes and in our facilities,” Bastian said.
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