The Flight Attendants Organization Is Mad At Alec Baldwin **UPDATE** Alec Apologized

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By Nads | Wednesday, December 7, 2011 | 2:27 pm | 23 Comments
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I love that there’s a union, or organization for everything! Even the flight attendants have an organization, and they’re not happy with Alec Bladwin. Julie Frederick from the Association of Professional Flight Attendants told Radar, “While I personally enjoy Words with Friends as much as anybody, passengers can continue to search for that double letter triple word score after takeoff.  I’m sure people are used to Alec Baldwin and his expressions. There is a difference between being funny and being mean. Flight attendants have not been the only recipients of Alec Baldwin’s ill temper.”

I can’t believe Alec deleted his whole Twitter account! What he said wasn’t even that bad compared to what Ashton Kutcher tweeted about Joe Pa. I could totally see him saying “F*ck it, and f*ck you twitter (delete).” As we all know Alec has rage issues, but he shouldn’t have deleted his Twitter account! How will I find out when he loses his sh*t again?

**UPDATE** Here’s his apology!

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Although comedy is her profession, Nadine has accomplished a lot in her young age. She is a national champion black belt, a world-class soccer player, and an avid snowboarder. She started playing soccer at the age of 4, and continued playing through college where she majored in Biology, but quickly realized her destiny was to tell jokes, not to wear a lab coat. So she decided to be funny while finishing her Bachelors Degree in biology and continued on to get her M.B.A. Nadine’s comedy style is much like her athleticism, fearless. She’s made her way up the comedy ladder very quickly, and has become a club favorite at many of the country’s top comedy clubs, including the Improv chain. Performing in the Boston Comedy Festival and being noted as the “one of the youngest and brightest up and comers” and traveling to the Middle East to entertain the troops are just a few of her notable accomplishments. These days Nadine splits time between the stage, a radio studio, her computer blogging, and a television studio. Nadine’s TV, Radio, Writing credits include: national commercials, talking head roles on E! Entertainment, Showtime’s Hot Tamales Live, The Skinny: Fat Free News, The Sunny Side of The Truth: Real World Hollywood, TVgasm, Zazreport, Daddy’s Girls, Jerseylicious, celebrity interviews on Mania TV, a weekly half-hour television show that syndicates to colleges across the country for National Lampoon and a nightly radio show on XM Satellite Radio.

23 Comments

  1. 1
    labowner
    Posted December 7, 2011 at 2:38 pm

    Who do we get to complain to about crappy air waitrons? Pilots never turn off their cell phones and use electronics (ipads) to help fly the planes. Please tell me why I have to turn my shit off, but they don’t have to.

  2. 2
    2muchbravo
    Posted December 7, 2011 at 2:43 pm

    It bugs the crap out of me, but the flight attendants never seem to notice the assholes sitting next to me with their smart phones on as we’re taxi-ing down the runway. Why pick on Big Al?
    I suppose one won’t actually bring a plane down but if 50 asshats have their phones on it may interupt things in the cockpit. Come down on everyone’s ass, not just a celeb’s!

  3. 3
    Robin Robinez
    Posted December 7, 2011 at 2:45 pm

    I wonder if they will continue to show the commercial that has him sitting in the cock-pit telling the captain ” It’s ok, I played a pilot once” ;)

  4. 4
    CattyFan cattyfan
    Posted December 7, 2011 at 2:50 pm

    “How will I find out when he loses his sh*t again?’

    Don’t worry. His publicist will immediately send out a cover-his-ass release.

  5. 5
    chaosbutterfly
    Posted December 7, 2011 at 5:43 pm

    @labowner, I think it’s because they’re the ones driving the plane and you’re just sitting in it, taking up space and snacks and air.

    By you, I mean like…general you. Not specifically you like YOU LABOWNER.

  6. 6
    notwithoutmytv
    Posted December 7, 2011 at 6:11 pm

    I don’t know, Lab Owner. I bet you could go to school for four years, spend 2 or 3 years as a flight instructor, fly for a regional airline for 5 or 6 years, then get hired by an airline, and then, maybe you can find out the secret of why you have to turn off your devices.

    We are all technology’s bitches. And we need to learn some self-control.

  7. 7
    ChickenLips
    Posted December 7, 2011 at 7:57 pm

    In his apology, he talks about “inedible meals”. Uh, must be nice sitting in first class and getting fed…I haven’t had a meal on an airplane in 10 years.

    I have, however, seen people with their phones out, tray tables down and seats reclined during take off and landing, so clearly the rules aren’t all that sacred and well enforced.

  8. 8
    Robin Robinez
    Posted December 7, 2011 at 8:32 pm

    These are FAA rules. American Airline’s has to follow FAA rules and subsequently the folks on the plane have to follow them as well.

    Forget the game he was playing and his refusal to quit playing, he slammed a door! Yeah, I really want to take off with somebody that has already shown a lack of self control on the tarmac. I can’t get away from the lunacy once I am in the air. The pilot made the right decision, I think.

    He sounds like a 5 yr old child that was told they couldn’t play with their toy and threw a temper tantrum. slamming doors etc..

  9. 9
    Detinha
    Posted December 7, 2011 at 8:48 pm

    From what I’ve read “The Big A” also slammed the bathroom door after refusing to comply!

  10. 10
    lindaw205
    Posted December 7, 2011 at 8:52 pm

    I also read that no only did he slam the door but was banging on the walls while in the bathroom so yeah….he needed to exit. An airplane bathroom isn’t the best place to have a tantrum.

  11. 11
    roger
    Posted December 7, 2011 at 9:19 pm

    i’m not happy with the situation but since 9/11 once you enter an airport, security OWNS you. anyone other than alec baldwin would have faced a LONG session on the ground with state troopers and airport security after forcing a plane to return to the gate and being ejected. you or i would not have been on that 3pm flight he caught later. why is he special?

  12. 12
    roger
    Posted December 7, 2011 at 9:21 pm

    alec baldwin is the 1%

  13. 13
    giffordsaz
    Posted December 7, 2011 at 9:35 pm

    Harry Morgan died. Alec Baldwin killed him.

  14. 14
    Robin Robinez
    Posted December 7, 2011 at 9:44 pm

    And that is why I would never fly with Alec Baldwin.

  15. 15
    sarcasatire sarcasatire
    Posted December 7, 2011 at 9:54 pm

    Uh-Oh…Now he done went and pissed off Greyhound, too!

    http://www.tmz.com/2011/12/07/greyhound-alec-baldwin-american-airlines/

  16. 16
    CattyFan cattyfan
    Posted December 7, 2011 at 10:04 pm

    Just as an aside about food on planes…three years ago I was flying back and forth every few weeks from Massahusetts to Wisconsin (my dad was sick, we thought he would get better, but then he had a rapid decline and passed away.) I was taking whatever flights I could book. Somehow I ended up on a Continental flight (an airline I have never used before.) They brought out the cart, and I figured it would be a soda (or half soda, as some airlines have skimped down to) and a tiny bag of crackers. Instead I was handed a plastic-wrap-covered tray…with cheese and crackers, salami, fruit, nuts, and cookies. Actual portions, not just one or two for show. I was stunned. I hadn’t seen free food served on a plane since my husband and I got moved to first class (because the flight attendant said we were the only polite people she had met all day) in 2001. Before that, the last food was in 1989.

    Aaaandddd….now I feel ancient.

  17. 17
    Chicken Lips
    Posted December 8, 2011 at 8:03 am

    @cattyfan – the last meal I had on a plane was a Continental flight. They brought out trays with half sandwiches and salads and stuff. I was excited because I then I wouldn’t have to pay $5 for a double cheeseburger at McDonald’s during the layover. Ever since then, I’m lucky if I get a pack of pretzels without begging.

  18. 18
    2muchbravo
    Posted December 8, 2011 at 8:40 am

    I understand that security is a serious deal when flying these days. I fly a couple of times a year so I appreciate that a effort is being made. But, I’ve got a problem with the random enforcement. I’ve sat next to people on numerous occasions who’ve gotten away with leaving their cell phones, laptops, whatnot on during the whole friggin’ flight. I don’t like to be a tight ass but there must be a reason why they ask people to shut them down. I’ve said something to flight attendants and to the offenders themselves. I got a lame ass excuse that it was ok because the laptop was “asleep.” WTF? Maybe Baldwin did act like a big entitled baby but why just pick on him? Yank all the dumbass fuckers up and toss them off the plane because they can’t stand to be unplugged for 15 fucking minutes until they’re told it’s ok to resume playing with their electronics again.

  19. 19
    giffordsaz
    Posted December 8, 2011 at 10:41 am

    Alec Baldwin is a joke. and not a funny joke either.

  20. 20
    Snootchy Bootches
    Posted December 8, 2011 at 4:12 pm

    Strange how the other members on the flight who have tweeted etc tell a different story than him. And am I the only one who gets the impression that if a man had asked him to turn off his phone it wouldn’t have been as big a deal? This guy has a chip on his shoulder so large that I am surprised they didn’t make him put it in an overhead bin.

  21. 21
    CattyFan cattyfan
    Posted December 9, 2011 at 6:19 pm

    His “apology” included this, “September 11th was a horrific day in the airline industry, yet in the wake of that event, I believe carriers and airports have used that as an excuse to make the air travel experience as inelegant as possible.”

    Yes…9-11 was just a ‘bad day’ for the airlines…and the goal of the security is to make travel “inelegant.” I’m not in any way supportive of the TSA, but man…Alec Baldwin could not be a bigger ass. And he doesn’t sound in the least bit sorry.

  22. 22
    captain save-uh-hoe
    Posted December 9, 2011 at 6:39 pm

    @2bravo— so with you!!! I fly almost every three or four days when on the job and that is my biggest pet peeve!!! AND I always seem to get the people who recline way before takeoff. Don’t get me started on seat reclining! haha I know nothing can be done about it, but nothing is worse than when I’m trying to do work on my computer and the person infront fully reclines, effectively closely my laptop and making it impossible to do anything for the rest of the flight! ggrrrrr.

  23. 23
    sarcasatire sarcasatire
    Posted December 9, 2011 at 8:33 pm

    Am I the only who will tattle on someone with a cellphone in a minute. I’ve been flying all my life but i always get nervous before takeoff and if someone has their phone on, I think they’re putting my life in danger. Irrational, possibly. But I’ll rat a sucka out in a minute! lol

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