A crew member who was working with the veteran American Airlines flight attendant who died in her hotel room during a short layover in Philadelphia says the entire crew are ‘traumatized’ by what happened after they were required to board a flight without first checking on her welfare.
The 66-year-old flight attendant was found unresponsive in her room at the Philadephia Airport Marriott hotel on Monday night, and medics pronounced her dead at around 10:45 pm.
Housekeeping didn’t find the long-serving flight attendant until two days after she was meant to have checked out, and there are now serious questions being asked about why it took the airline and hotel so long to check on her welfare.
The LAX-based flight attendant had been on a domestic work trip and had been with the same crew for a couple of days. They had a short overnight layover in Philadelphia, but when she failed to turn up for checkout, the other crew members were required to head to a plane to start boarding.
A post shared on social media claiming to be from a crew member who was working with the deceased flight attendant explained what happened, saying that the crew attempted to call the hotel but were required to start boarding the flight and close the doors before finding out what had happened to the missing crew member.
Due to the sudden circumstances surrounding the crew member’s death, police are treating it as suspicious, although there is no evidence of forced entry into the room or a struggle.
The Philadelphia Medical Examiner’s Office is yet to release the results of an autopsy.
When U.S. flight attendants fail to show up for their hotel shuttle on time, it’s not unusual for their colleagues to be expected to leave without them. The missing crew member must then arrange their own transport to the hotel and if they fail to make it in time, a replacement is simply called from reserve to cover their position.
Disgusting you would take a personal heartfelt private post and share without permission! Shame on you!
The poat was posted publicly on social media. I would not print private correspondence.
The comment was meant for their co workers only! Where did you get your info?
The only way you could have gotten this information is if someone gave it to you. The group is “private”
Shame on you for posting “privately” made comments. I’m sure if this was a member of your family you would feel the same. Show some class, everything isn’t about “clicks”
I can only reassure you that this post was not obtained from a private group or leaked to me. I posted it as it was already in the public domain. I’m really sorry how this has come across but I can only attempt to apologise for any hurt this has caused
If you truly want to “apologize for any hurt this has caused” then you will delete this article/blog, otherwise your words are meaningless.
you know damn well it wasn’t public. you’re a scum for using a tragedy to collect traffic to your bullshit little blog
To grieve is very understandable. To be “traumatized” reflects poorly on the FA’s. In an emergency, with they become unhinged?
Stop majoring on the minor. Someone should have asked the front desk to follow up with a call or a wellness check when your colleague no showed for her pick up
It took 2 days and after 10 pm for a wellness check to be done on someone who was on duty staying at a company provided hotel. If it’s AA policy not to do wellness checks on their on duty staff then you all need to reflect on human life and no so much on $.
If this is how you care for your staff and colleagues then the world is in a bad way.
Who’s the scumbag that leaked this post from a private group. You’ll do anything for a story .
There are too many possibilities , anything could have happened, someone suggested that she may have had the sock in her mouth if she was having a seizure to prevent biting her tongue. Some people say she was gagged with the sock etc. Some FA’s are blaming the company for neglect, or failure to provide protection etc. And what’s even more laughable is that they expect the union, to step up and demand answers. LMAO Really, in a time when FA’s are threatening to strike, and negotiations are getting heated. Y’all expect them to actually address this right now, as we all know this is not the first time this has happened and unfortunately FA’s as well as pilots do pass away on layovers and sometimes on the plane as we have seen recently. Why are y’all so mad about this? We don’t even have all the facts yet. It’s like the FA’s have a vendetta against the company, like literally everything is their fault. We knew when we signed up for the job what we were getting into, and the safety related concerns that are sometimes unavoidable. The company cannot guard us from every little thing that happens. It is impossible. it’s called work for a reason. It’s no one job to make us happy or feel safe. I’m just happy to be employed right now as it could be so much worse. Of course AA is not perfect, no airline is or ever will be, and there are things that could be improved…but the level of hatred towards the very people who sign our check is unreal. This is why as a group, we will never accomplish anything with the company. Just quit…we have options.
There are too many possibilities , anything could have happened, someone suggested that she may have had the sock in her mouth if she was having a seizure to prevent biting her tongue. Some people say she was gagged with the sock etc. Now some Fa’s are blaming the company for neglect, or failure to provide protection etc. And what’s even more laughable is that they expect the union, to step up and demand answers. Lol really, in a time when FA’s are threatening to strike, and negotiations are getting heated. Y’all expect them to actually address this right now, as we all know this is not the first time this has happened and unfortunately FA’s as well as pilots do pass away on layovers and sometimes on the plane as we have seen recently. Why are y’all so mad about this? We don’t even have all the facts yet. It’s like the FA’s have a vendetta against the company, like literally everything is their fault. We knew when we signed up for the job what we were getting into, and the safety related concerns that are sometimes unavoidable. The company cannot guard us from every little thing that happens. It is impossible. Like some of you all just look for reasons to be angry and want to take absolutely no accountability for anything that they do. Just go to work, it’s called work for a reason. It’s no one job to make us happy or feel safe. Of course AA is not perfect, no airline is or ever will be, and there are things that could be improved…but the level of hatred towards the very people who sign our check is unreal. This is why as a group, we will never accomplish anything with the company. Just quit…we have options.
You are *INCORRECT* that our procedure at AA is to leave a (known) crewmember behind.
The company may want that, but that’s not how AA Crews operate.
It is normally, exactly the OPPOSITE.
This particular hotel is ADJACENT to the terminal. At layover locations such as this, the crew won’t always want to *walk* over at the same time.
Some want go earlier for coffee/food.
Others don’t want to walk over until it will put them at the gate 1 hour prior to departure – our required ‘sign in’ time for a domestic flight.
At a hotel requiring transportation to the airport, we would NEVER leave someone on our working crew behind without trying to contact the crewmember.
If they failed to answer the room phone, we would tell the front desk to send security up to their room – with one of us in tow – to verify they were awake and ok.
The bigger problem with all of this, is that oftentimes we may not even know we HAVE another crewmember at that hotel – working with us or deadheading with us that day – Pilot or Flight Attendant.
The way AA does things can be a hodge-podge and a mix-n-match of crewmembers sometimes – especially if irregular operations are happening.
At THIS particular hotel location – walking over to the terminal – it is not at all uncommon for the crew to go at different times.
It wouldn’t be until reporting to the aircraft – just like at the start of ones’ trip – that we realize we’re missing someone.
Not bothering to P O S T my reply to your ‘article’????