A Huge Brawl Broke Out At The Fort Lauderdale Airport After Spirit Airlines Cancelled 11 Flights

Daily Mail- Furious passengers lashed out at police, were thrown to the floor and arrested during chaotic scenes at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport. Several people were detained during ugly confrontations with law enforcement when 11 Spirit Airlines flights were cancelled and 26 were delayed at the Florida hub on Monday night. The group of passengers who clashed with cops were angry because the last-minute disruptions meant they would miss a graduation ceremony. A mob of irate customers began beating the counters and screaming at staff, prompting airline employees to call the police.

The flying experience has always been a delicate one. Like I said on yesterday’s Podfathers, there have always been silent battles going on at the airport and on airplanes. Everyone’s already on edge from having to get to the airport on time and going through TSA. Then the silent battle begins with the people waiting around as the plane starts to board, just dying to get in line ASAP before spending hours bottled up on a plane. Once that pushing and shoving is over with, there are fights for the overhead bins (because nobody wants to check their carry on), the arm wrests, and if you are unlucky enough to be stuck in the same row as someone close to my size, any extra space. As it turns out Dr. Dao getting dragged off of that United flight was the Archduke Ferdinand moment that caused this powderkeg to explode at airports around the world. Now we have passengers vs. flight attendants, passengers vs. passengers, and passengers vs. the whole goddamn airport. Real deal Hunger Games shit. There are good reasons to be placed in the paddywagon and there are bad reasons. Getting your flight cancelled on Spirit Airlines and missing your graduation is a #bad reason. Graduations are fun for literally nobody and Spirit is pretty much one step above the Cleveland Indians plane in Major League.

(Extra shitty video quality to really hammer the point home)

You don’t start a riot unless your airline tells you that your flight has been cancelled and the only way back home is to fly Spirit with the faceless poors.

And would you like to know my theory of why these airline fights keep happening? If you notice, basically every airline serve Coke products. Not a can of Pepsi as far as the eye can see. But as Kendall Jenner taught us, Pepsi is the great peacemaker of the 21st century. Get some Pepsi in those peoples’ mouths and watch the tears (likely from the tear gas) turn into smiles.

(And as always, insert Florida being Florida joke here)