A video has recently resurfaced of a Delta flight attendant threatening a family with jail time if they refused to give up their child's seat. The incident, which took place in 2017, occurred because of an overbooked Delta flight. Brian Schear and his family were eventually booted from the flight, and the eight-minute video upset many across the internet. A female flight attendant was demanding that the family give up a seat to a standby passenger that they had originally purchased for their 2-year-old son.
“It’s a federal offense if you don’t abide by it,” she told the dad, to which he responded, “I bought that seat!” He was going to fill the seat with one of his two toddlers, who would be in a carseat.
“He can’t occupy a seat because he’s 2 years or younger. That’s FAA regulations. This plane will not go anywhere until you guys choose to go. I’m just trying to help you,” the flight attendant said. “Trying to help us would’ve been not overselling the flight and not trying to force us to get him out of that seat that I paid for and holding this whole plane up,” Brian replied. “So what are we supposed to do? I’ve got two infants, nowhere to stay, there’s no more flights. What are we supposed to do? Sleep in the airport?”
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The family eventually got off the plane and booked another flight home for the next day. “We never thought it was going to get to the point where they were actually getting us all off the flight,” Schear told CBS Los Angeles. “As we were leaving the plane, there’s four or five passengers waiting for our seat. The bottom line is, they oversold the flight.”
