Watch This Airport Karen Meet Her Match During a Spirit Airlines Confrontation
You know the feeling: You arrive at the airport nearly two hours early only to end up dashing to your gate like an Olympic sprinter minutes before your flight because the person in front of you in the security line just doesn’t want to part with that 5-ounce shampoo bottle in their carry-on.
All of that stress makes airports natural hotbeds for tension, which is probably why there have been way too many viral videos of airport conflicts to count. Remember this one at the Spirit Airlines counter in Fort Lauderdale after flights were cancelled?
This week, a passenger captured another tense encounter between a Spirit Airlines employee and a passenger at the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport. And while it wasn’t nearly as violent, the video, posted by @sightssoundsflavors, has received over 8 million views to date.
It’s unclear what started the confrontation between the two women, but in the clip, a visibly annoyed airline employee asks a passenger for her boarding pass in a not so nice way. When the passenger complies, the employee is seen furiously writing down information from her ticket. The Spirit employee then encourages other passengers to walk around her, saying, “She’s not going anywhere.”
But then, the frustrated passenger appears to have had enough.
“I will not miss my flight because of you,” she is heard saying in the clip.
The passenger tries to move ahead in the line, only to be blocked by the Spirit employee. The employee writes a little more and then storms off leaving the passenger with a few parting words: “F*ck you too,” she says as she walks off.
It’s not unreasonable to assume the passenger was the first to drop the F-word, which would naturally set anyone off. But the narrator of the video says he believes the employeetook the situation too far. He accused her of being on a power trip, hoping to make the passenger think she was going to miss her flight. And some in the comments agreed.
“I don’t know the situation, but when you’re working, you can never lose it like this, even though you want to,” someone posted.
We don’t know whether or not the passenger was allowed to board her flight or if she had any further encounters with airline staff. But we do know that if you ever find yourself flying Spirit Airlines through Fort Lauderdale, make sure you pack your patience.
