Passengers Ordered Off Plane In Maine As Police Make A Threat They Can’t Deliver On

Police boarded a Breeze Airways Airbus A220 in Bangor, Maine and ordered a group of passengers including a parent with a toddler off the aircraft. One officer offered them a choice: leave voluntarily or get arrested and placed on the no-fly list. “And your other option is to get arrested and be on a no-fly list. Then you won’t be flying anywhere, anytime. It’s not worth it. You might want to just walk off of your own accord right now.” The passengers complied. The four adults gathered their belongings and walked off with the child. A second video shows them in the terminal with Bangor police. The Facebook post, published Sunday, August 16, blames Breeze customer service for failing to de-escalate the dispute. It didn’t identify the flight. However, It looks to me like Bangor from the police uniforms the aircraft interior is a Breeze Airbus A220 Breeze had two A220 departures from Bangor on Saturday: flight MX175 to Tampa at 10:06 a.m. and that was airborne 18 minutes after that, and MX2855 to Raleigh continuing to Orlando, which was scheduled for 6:44 p.m. and which took off 40 minutes after scheduled departure. That Raleigh flight is more likely given the time involved in a police response. What’s striking to me here is that a Bangor, Maine police officer can’t place someone on the federal No Fly List, and at most could relay an airline decision about their banned passenger list. The officer’s claim that they would not be “flying anywhere, anytime” is not credible. That said, remaining on the aircraft and arguing just isn’t going to be an evolutionarily stable strategy. Passengers should leave when ordered and pursue the airline afterward. Topics on this page