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Attendants Fume over "Flightplan"
It will be a cold day in hell before Flightplan winds up as an in-flight movie--especially if flight-attendant unions have anything to do with it.
Three different unions representing over 80,000 flight attendants on 23 airlines are calling for a boycott of the Jodie Foster airplane-based thriller, alleging Flightplan depicts airline staffers as rude and unhelpful to passengers.
"Should there be another 9-11, it would be critical for the cabin crew to have the support of their passengers, not the distrust that this movie may engender," Tommie Hutto-Blake, president of the Association of Professional Flight Attendants, said in a statement.
In addition to the Association of Professional Flight Attendants, the Southwest Airlines flight-attendant's union (Transport Workers Union, Local 556) and the Association of Flight Attendants are calling for a full-on boycott of the film.
Spoiler alert warning
Flightplan, which debuted atop the domestic box office last week, focuses on a woman (Foster) who awakes during a flight only to find her six-year-old daughter mysteriously missing. The cabin crew dismisses Foster's character as delusional since the daughter did not show up on the flight's manifest.
Further, one flight attendant in the film is working surreptitiously with a federal air marshal as part of an elaborate extortion plot.
That particular plot twist has one union rep fuming.
"We could get over the rudeness, but the evilness, to be the villain, that is not acceptable," Corey Caldwell, a spokeswoman for the Association of Flight Attendants tells the Los Angeles Times.
Disney, the studio behind the thriller, said the film didn't mean to denigrate flight attendants.
"There was absolutely no intention on the part of the studio or filmmakers to create anything but a great action thriller," a Disney rep said. "We are confident the public will be able to discern the difference between fiction and the incredible job real-life flight attendants do on a daily basis."
But that's not doing much to soothe tempers.
"Our fellow crew members who perished in the line of duty deserve more respect," says Hutto-Blake.
Caldwell also invoked 9-11. "With security concerns what they are, it is not a good time to release a film with a terrorist in the position of flight attendant," she tells the Times.
Nevertheless, the unions' griping hasn't done much to bring down the film's bottom line. Flightplan has grossed more than $28 million in five days and is expected to remain near the top of the box office for the next few weeks.
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