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Alec Baldwin Apologizes to Passengers, Not American Airlines

Truth rating: 10

8:40 pm, December 7th, 2011

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Alec Baldwin has offered a written apology to his “fellow travelers” for an incident on Tuesday onboard an American Airlines flight, but he still maintains he wasn’t in the wrong.

Nor does Baldwin, who was removed from the plane, say he’s sorry to American Airlines, which earlier in the day blasted him for being “rude.”

According to a letter Baldwin published on Wednesday’s Huffington Post, “While other people were still manipulating their own phones, this one employee singled me out to put my phone away.”

Baldwin says he initially obliged, but took out his phone again, as other passengers did, while the plane remained delayed at the gate.

“Again, I was singled out by this woman in the most unpleasant of tones,” he claims.

“I guess the fact that this woman, who had decided to make some example of me, while everyone else was left undisturbed, did get the better of me.”

The actor, noting he’s never had a problem on past flights or with any other American Airlines attendant, admits he learned “a valuable lesson.”

“The lesson I’ve learned is to keep my phone off when the 1950′s gym teacher is on duty,” he writes.

Still unapologetic to the airline, Baldwin says, “Most of the flight attendants I have ever encountered still have some remnant of the old idea of service… But there are many now who walk the aisles of an airplane with a whistle around their neck and a clipboard in their hands and they have made flying a Greyhound bus experience.”

What do you think of Baldwin’s “apology”?

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  • Chris R

    Douche anyone?

  • Anonymous

    He’s such a douchebag I can’t stand this asshole, he is always giving everyone a hard time does he think he deserves special treatment just because he’s an actor?

  • May

    That was not an apology!

  • biz

    He is absolutely right! No need to apologize to anyone, save the other pax which were delayed, and which he did. Have experienced same aboard US and British planes only, in any other country such gym teacher behaviour on planes simply does not happen.

  • sparkys nemesis

    Have you ever been on a plane with a *rude* flight attendant?? Yes, flight attendant. My family has:( They, too, go ballistic, act aggressively, etc. It can and does happen.

  • Hpexpress

    I am pretty sure if it went down like it sounds, The Captain came out and told Mr Baldwin to get off the the plane.
    I would think the US Marshals would step in, I don’t think the Captain is allowed to leave the cockpit.
    Just a thought

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_JTBMQYMFVZMKNCXIMISICQ3Z6E Anonymous

    he’s right. Besides the fact that it’s bs to have to turn them off anyway…. that entire “interferring with communications” line has been totally debunked.

  • Christina

    Mr Baldwin makes an excellent point regarding the deteriorating service of airlines. I believe that he was being overly argumentative, but doesn’t every customer service industry have to deal with that? Why does being rude immediately get you thrown off a plane that you have spent an ungodly amount of money to be on?

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=23927165 Michael R Stratton

    i disagree. from his account, she did seem to single him out. not being there, i can’t properly comment. however, i was in NYC just three years ago, and went to a fancy restaurant, where it was packed and since i didn’t have a reservation, couldn’t even get a table. i did, however, see alec baldwin ahead of me, and when the manager explained the only table available was one near the kitchen (which is VERY annoying and cumbersome, as a diner), he had no problems with it whatsoever, and seemed to be very respectful. dont’ forget, EVERYONE has bad days. i’d bet if he wasn’t famous, this story would never have even come out. so maybe it’s not baldwin asking for special treatment, but others treat him that way without him even wanting it? just a thought…

  • Josh

    I sat next to a QANTAS pilot on a flight from Sydney to Adelaide a few years ago. He told me the whole phone interference thing is BS. In fact he told me the pilots use their phones while in the cockpit.

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