*A North Carolina woman has lawyered up after she was kicked off Frontier Airlines flight and arrested for complaining about vomit in her seat.
Rosetta Swinney, 53, says she will never fly Frontier ever again after getting booted off her flight out of Las Vegas. She spent Easter weekend in Nevada for a wedding with her 14-year-old daughter. But when they boarded the flight back to RDU, she was surprised to find their seats were a nasty hot mess, ABC 7 reports.
“She jumped up to say mom! My hands are wet. She smelled it. She says ‘this is vomit, mom.’ So we went to look. It was on the bag, all over her shirt, her hands,” Swinney said.
That’s when she alerted a flight attendant.
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“What really hurt me is for my child to see me getting handcuffed and taken away from her,” Rosetta Swinney said. “Twelve hours I was in jail. Twelve hours.” https://t.co/GmOhQ8lzCX
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“I don’t know if she got offensive about it. But she turned around to me and said, ‘that’s not my job.’ If it wasn’t her job. Why wasn’t it attend to?” Swinney said. The flight attendant never attempted to clean up the mess and did not reassign her seat, she claims.
When Swinney confronted the flight attendant again, authorities were called to remove her and her daughter.
“I felt humiliated,” said Swinney. “I felt more bad that my child had to see me be handcuffed and taken away from her.”
She was hauled off to jail and her daughter was reportedly placed in child protective custody.
“What really hurt me is for my child to see me getting handcuffed and taken away from her. Twelve hours I was in jail. Twelve hours.”
After getting out of jail, she purchased a ticket for $1000 through Delta to fly home. Swinney has now hired a civil rights attorney to fight her misdemeanor trespassing charge.
She is due in a Las Vegas courtroom in June.
Meanwhile, Frontier refunded the cost of her original ticket home and is standing by the flight attendant.
In a statement the company said “the flight attendants apologized and immediately invited the mother and her teenage daughter to move to either end of the plane so that the seat area could be cleaned.”
The statement also noted that “the mother and daughter were…told that once boarding was complete they would be provided other seats if available.”
Read the full statement below:
“During boarding of flight 2066 from McCarran International Airport (LAS) to Raleigh-Durham International Airport (RDU) last week, two passengers told the flight attendants that vomit was present in their seat area. The flight attendants apologized and immediately invited the mother and her teenage daughter to move to either end of the plane so that the seat area could be cleaned. The mother and daughter were also told that once boarding was complete they would be provided other seats if available. The daughter was also offered cleaning products and invited to use the lavatory to wash up. The mother was unsatisfied with the response and became disruptive. As a result, the flight attendants determined that the mother and daughter should be deplaned and accommodated on another flight. The mother refused, and following procedure, law enforcement was called. Law enforcement then requested that everyone deplane so that the mother and daughter could be removed allowing the aircraft to be re-boarded and depart. We apologized to our passengers for the inconvenience caused by the departure delay. The safety of passengers and crew is our top priority at Frontier.”
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