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Attendants Fume over "Flightplan"
Wednesday September 28 7:59 PM ET


It will be a cold day in hell before Flightplan winds up as an in-flight movie--especially if flight attendant unions have anything to do with it.

Three different unions representing over 80,000 flight attendants on 23 airlines are calling for a boycott of the Jodie Foster airplane-based thriller, alleging Flightplan depicts airline staffers as rude and unhelpful to passengers.

"Should there be another 9-11, it would be critical for the cabin crew to have the support of their passengers, not the distrust that this movie may engender," Tommie Hutto-Blake, president of the Association of Professional Flight Attendants, said in a statement.

 
In addition to the Association of Professional Flight Attendants, the Southwest Airlines flight attendant's union (Transport Workers Union, Local 556) and the Associaton of Flight Attendants are calling for a full-on boycott of the film.

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Flightplan, which debuted atop the domestic box office last week, focuses on a woman (Foster) who awakes during a flight only to find her six-year-old daughter mysteriously missing. The cabin crew dismisses Foster's character as delusional since the daughter did not show up on the flight's manifest.

Further, one flight attendant in the film is working surreptitiously with a federal air marshal as part of an elaborate extortion plot.

That particular plot twist has one union rep fuming.

"We could get over the rudeness, but the evilness, to be the villain, that is not acceptable," Corey Caldwell, a spokeswoman for the Association of Flight Attendants tells the Los Angeles Times.

Disney, the studio behind the thriller, said the film didn't mean to denigrate flight attendants.

"There was absolutely no intention on the part of the studio or filmmakers to create anything but a great action thriller," a Disney rep said. "We are confident the public will be able to discern the difference between fiction and the incredible job real-life flight attendants do on a daily basis."

But that's not doing much to soothe tempers.

"Our fellow crew members who perished in the line of duty deserve more respect," says Hutto-Blake.

Caldwell also invoked 9-11. "With security concerns what they are, it is not a good time to release a film with a terrorist in the position of flight attendant," she tells the Times.

Nevertheless, the unions' griping hasn't done much to bring down the film's bottom line. Flightplan has grossed more than $28 million in five days and is expected to remain near the top of the box office for the next few weeks.

i say:  what the heck.  notice the quote in red... does that even make sense?  is that even on-topic?  LOL What does this movie have to do with people that got killed during 9/11...

[kode]

"hey fellas, let's stage an attack on the hijackers"
"nah, the attendant was a ***** to me. we're better off with the 'jackers."

[Night Hammer]

[kode]

nay, seriously. it's better to help people you don't like over people who wouldn't hesitate to friggen blow your head off.

the redlined quote is of course just to get more attention and win sympathy.

[karajorma]

The airline staff who signed up for this can take a flying f**king jump for all I care. So airline staff can't ever be the bad guys? Every other profession sure but there are no bad people ever in the cabin crew?

What a f**king joke.

[vyper]

Some people are just thick as pig ****.

[Janos]

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[MicroPsycho]

its Disney film...heh

[Janos]

Originally posted by karajorma
The airline staff who signed up for this can take a flying f**king jump for all I care. So airline staff can't ever be the bad guys? Every other profession sure but there are no bad people ever in the cabin crew?

What a f**king joke.

No you see they had HEROIC ANTICS 9-11 NEVER FORGET TERRISMTERRISM IRAQ WAR ON TERROR HEROES 9-11 TRAGEDY PARTISAN POLITICAL LIBERAL TERRORTERRORTERROR 9-11 FREEDOM

[kode]

EFINE W0RD, MON!

[TrashMan]

*brainwashing sucessfull*

[Stealth]

yeah i think it's stupid.

there are always people out there eager to fight about something

[karajorma]

To be honest I think we should fight fire with fire. Find out which 23 airlines these unions serve and threaten a boycott of them instead.

In the event of another 9-11 I certainly wouldn't want to trust my life to anyone stupid enough to not realise that it's a f**king movie.

[Bri_Dog]

That movie looks stupid anyway

[karajorma]

Which is surely all the more reason why these people must be morons.

If the move is rubbish then it makes it less likely that any passenger would take the blindest bit of notice of it in an emergency situation.

[Ford Prefect]

I have news for these people-- mainstream entertainment has been portraying flight attendants as rude/unhelpful/annoying for at least a decade by now.

Apparently we can add "slow" to the stereotype list.

[Rictor]

I still can't actually believe that people paid actual physical currency to see a film about someone getting lost in a plane....but no, wait! Getting lost in a plain with ominous music and flash cut editing!

[vyper]

I still can't actually believe anyone gives a **** about a film with Jodie Foster in it.

[Ford Prefect]

Jodie Foster is a very good actor, in my opinion.

This film, however, just screamed "resolution via terrible deus ex machina" to me, so I skipped it.