Feeling disgusted & degraded after an @AlaskaAir flight where the passenger next to me made repeated lewd sexual remarks. The flight attendants told me he was a frequent flier, brushed off his behavior & kept giving him drinks. I guess his $ means more than our safety? My letter:
Mark Zuckerberg’s Sister Sexually Harassed On Flight, Probe On
laska Airlines says it’s launched an investigation following recent claims by Randi Zuckerberg that she was sexually harassed on one of its fights, and employees of the carrier dismissed her complaints.
The founder and CEO of Zuckerberg Media and sister of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg last week tweeted that a male passenger made repeated harassing comments to her on a flight from Los Angeles to Mazatlan, Mexico.
Airline staff told Zuckerberg not take the comments personally, she said, while meantime, the offending passenger continued to be served alcoholic beverages.
Zuckerberg wrote that she was offered a seat at the back of the plane, a move that would have required her to give up her first-class seat.
Updating her account, Zuckberg said executives at the airline told her the passenger’s travel privileges had been temporarily suspended and that she was grateful her complaints were being taken seriously.
UPDATE: I just got off the phone with two executives from @AlaskaAir who informed me that they are conducting an investigation and have temporarily suspended this passenger’s travel privileges. Thank you for taking this seriously.