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You overbooked the flight, and now you're trying to take my baby?
Because I'm a Platinum Elite member.
Now get off this plane!
Ma'am, the entire flight is waiting on you. You're holding everyone up. We'd
appreciate it if you'd take the next flight.
See? You could have avoided all this if you'd just cooperated.
Fine. But remember this. You are going to regret it.
They had no idea who they had just crossed.
One of North America's top aviation attorneys.
For this humiliation at 30,000 feet, they would pay back every cent with
interest.
Ladies and gentlemen, we'll be taking off shortly. Please make sure your
seatbelt's securely flattened.
Hey, you're in
my seat.
This is 14A.
So is mine. It says 14A right here.
Mine says 14A too.
That's impossible.
Get up.
Now!
Is there a problem?
She's in my seat.
Ma'am, we've checked both boarding passes. It looks like the same seat was
assigned twice.
We sincerely apologize.
Assigned twice?
There was a system error.
We'd like to rebook you on the next available flight.
And we'll take care of everything.
A system error assigned the same seat twice?
You oversold the flight, didn't you?
Ma'am, the whole plane is waiting.
Please cooperate.
No.
Do you know who I am?
I'm a platinum elite member.
Get her off this plane!
Miss Kyle, this isn't a system error.
It's overbooking.
You oversold this flight, hoping someone wouldn't show. Well, everyone showed up.
That's your problem, not mine.
So why should I be the one paying for your mistakes?
tower's calling again.
We need to depart. Please resolve this.
Miss Wayne, we are about to depart and there is only one seat available.
Someone has to de-apploy.
We have already rebooked you on the next flight and arranged an airport hotel.
This is the highest compensation we are authorized to offer.
You made the mistake.
And now you want to buy my silence with compensation?
We would appreciate your cooperation.
The crew is under pressure as well.
You oversold this flight for profit.
Why should I be the one punished for it?
Why does he get to stay?
Yeah, why are you kicking off a woman with a baby?
Whoever caused this problem can fix it.
My family is waiting at the airport, and I am not the airpan.
You are holding up the entire plane.
Is this how you treat important passengers?
A regular passenger refuses to move, and you just stand there? Every minute I sit
here costs me tens of thousands in business. Are you paying for that?
If your business is that important, And time is that expensive?
Why are you not taking the next flight?
What are you all staring at?
I said I want her off this plane!
I'm a Platinum Elite member.
I fly with this airline dozens of times a year.
Is this how you treat your VIP customers?
Why should I pay for your mistake?
Having a baby does not make her entitled to my feet.
She is not a VIP.
Remove her.
That is the easiest fix.
Sir, please calm down.
Calm down?
Why should I?
I'm a paying customer!
Sir, please.
We'll take care of it.
I do not want an apology.
I want results. Right now. Get her off this plane.
You heard him. Take your baby and leave now.
Do not make me call security to remove you.
At this airline, Platinum Elite members come first.
Regular passengers like you are expected to cooperate.
It's unbelievable.
Do you not understand plain English? You are the chief processor.
Remove her!
If you cannot handle something this simple, what are you people paid for?
Miss Kyle.
Miss Kyle, ground ops have called several times.
They want to know if we're taking off or not.
Ladies and gentlemen, we sincerely apologize for the interruption.
We've run into an issue with today's flight.
We're looking for one volunteer to take the next flight.
In return, the airline will provide generous cash compensation, a hotel near
the airport, and a complimentary upgrade voucher.
Or if anyone would be willing to switch seats with the passenger traveling with
the baby, we'd really appreciate it.
Maybe we should switch with her.
I really feel bad for her. Switch?
No way.
We've got plans tomorrow. What if we don't make it?
This isn't our problem.
Stay out of it.
Mrs. Kyle, you saw it yourself.
No one was willing to switch.
Do you know what that means?
Everyone on this plane knows I'm not the one who should be getting off.
Miss Kyle, the tower's not giving us any more time. If we don't resolve this now,
the whole flight will be delayed.
If she won't leave, take the baby off first.
Let's see if she still refuses.
I'm sorry, ma'am, but you'll have to leave. I'll take your baby off first.
Don't touch my baby!
Ma'am, if you continue disrupting the flight, we'll have no choice but to
remove you and your child by force.
Force?
What gives you the right to separate a baby from her mother?
You are acting like thugs!
Everyone can see what you are doing.
You are trying to take my baby just to force me off this plane.
What kind of people do that?
That's enough.
Let go of the baby.
How can you try to take a mother's baby?
They tried asking nicely.
You wouldn't listen.
You brought this on yourself.
If you'd just given up your seat in the first place, none of this would have
happened.
What did you just say?
Am I wrong?
She wouldn't get off the plane.
She brought this on herself.
What is wrong with you? They're trying to take her baby, and you're actually
blaming her?
I paid for platinum elite status.
Why should I have to care?
Mind your own business.
What you are doing is a serious violation of the law.
Do you realize what you are doing?
You tried to take a baby away from her own mother.
In any country, you cannot hide this behind the word cooperation.
This is cohesion.
This is abuse.
Sir, please calm down.
The flight is full, and we have to keep it on schedule.
One passenger has to deplane. That is company policy.
Company policy?
Then show me the policy that says you can lay hands on a passenger's baby.
Show me the policy that lets you use force to remove a ticket passenger.
Go on.
Show the whole cabin. Read it out loud.
You can't, can you?
Because there is no such policy.
You oversold the flight.
You should have apologized, negotiated, and asked whether she was willing to
take the next flight.
Instead, what did you do?
Sir, we were only trying to... You thought that because this was your
cabin, you could push around a woman traveling with a baby?
Chief Pursuit of Marlene Kyle, and you, employee ID 02473.
I have both your names and your employee number.
Everyone, keep recording.
Save every video.
What happened here today cannot be buried. I have the
whole thing on video. I did not miss a second.
Who the hell do you think you are?
This is between me and her.
Stay out of it!
A seat dispute?
Really?
You have been demanding that she be thrown off this plane from the start.
And they are the one who tried to take a baby away from her mother.
Everyone on this plane saw what happened. And everyone is recording.
You had better pray this never blows up.
Sir, if you continue disrupting the cabin... I'm not the one disrupting the
cabin. You are.
I will say this one last time.
You are creating a disaster you will not be able to undo.
Stop now while you still can.
You are right.
But it is too late.
Do it. Now.
Ma'am, come with me.
Ma'am, here's your new boarding pass and your compensation.
You are going to regret this.
And how exactly will you make us regret it?
Throw a tantrum at the check-in carer?
Write some crying post online?
You will not regret it because of who I am.
You will regret it because of what you did.
I'm going to remember every single thing you did today.
I won't forget a single thing.
What? You think someone's going to come and save you?
When you finally realize what you've done, it'll already be too late.
Ladies and gentlemen, we're ready for takeoff. Please make sure your seatbelt
is securely fastened.
Moria, what took you so long?
What happened to your eyes?
Wasn't your flight supposed to land at 11?
You only said they'd put you on another flight.
What happened?
It's a long story.
Let's get home first.
Can you tell me what happened now?
The airline oversold the flight and issued my seat to someone else.
They tried to force me off the plane.
Then they tried to take my baby.
What? Were you hurt?
What about the baby?
Do you need to go to the hospital?
They actually put their hands on you?
I'm fine.
Why didn't you tell us sooner?
I'm calling 911 right now!
We'll call the police.
Just not yet. I need to get all the evidence together first.
You're handling this yourself?
Why not let your firm deal with it? It's my case.
No one knows it better than I do.
Okay. But don't go through this alone.
Why didn't you just tell them you were a lawyer?
Because being a lawyer could not decide whether they respect me.
Every passenger deserves respect.
But if you told them who you were... Then what about the next person who
can't?
They did not misjudge my profession.
They saw a woman traveling alone with a baby and decided I was the easiest
person to sacrifice.
How far are you planning to take this?
As far as the facts can take me.
Then I'm with you all the way.
They thought they were throwing off a helpless mother who would cry, keep
quiet and take it.
Too bad they picked the wrong woman.
Moria, you're up early. Everything okay?
Victor, I need to file a case.
Whose case?
Mine. Yours?
Aren't you still on maternity leave?
Who the hell messed with you?
The airline overbooked the flight.
Then, in front of everyone, they tried to force me off the plane by taking my
baby away.
What?
Did they even know who you were?
No. All they saw was a woman holding a baby.
A mom they thought they could push around.
Then they picked the wrong mother. What do you need?
I need three filings.
First, an evidence preservation motion.
Second, an application for a court-authorized discovery order.
The first two are standard.
What's the third?
What are you hoping to find?
A motion for targeted discovery.
I want the complete duty log for that flight and the verification records for
that man's platinum status.
His membership?
You think his platinum status was fake?
Not just his.
I also want the crew's internal communications.
The airline guards those records like state secrets.
Getting them won't be easy.
Want me to take a different route?
No. We do this by the book.
Whatever we can obtain through legal channels, we obtain.
Every piece of evidence has to be clean enough to survive in court.
Got it. Moria, how are you holding up?
I am fine.
My baby is fine.
But they are going to answer for this.
I'm not that helpless mother anymore.
I'm Moria Wayne.
one of North America's top aviation teams.
In this country, even across North America, I am one of the leading experts
in aviation law.
I refuse to believe any airline can place itself above the law.
Sir, I caught something big last night. I want to post it on my personal account
first. then follow up with a full investigation.
What happened?
The airline oversold the flight.
To force a mother traveling with her baby to deplane, the crew even tried to
take the baby from her.
I got the whole thing on video.
Do you have the full, uncut footage?
Yes. 17 minutes and 42 seconds.
Time code, flight information, what happened before and after, all of it is
there. Don't make it sensational.
Blur the baby's face. Keep the key moments.
And stick to facts you can verify.
That was exactly my plan.
Got a headline?
I watched them take a baby from a mother's arms.
It has emotion, but the facts can support it.
Post it. And make three backups of the original footage.
Will do.
9 o'clock?
100,000 shares?
Do we know who posted the video?
A passenger. They recorded it themselves.
A passenger recorded it?
Perfect. Get it taken down.
Call the platform.
Tell them it violates the crew's privacy.
I want that video taken down immediately.
The story's blowing up right now.
If we force it down, people are only going to come after us even harder.
That's why we're not just taking it down.
Get a few big influencers involved.
Stir things up.
Which way do you want to steer it? Say that woman lost control first and
started causing a scene.
The crew had no choice but to step in to protect everyone else on board.
Sir, everyone's already furious.
If people find out we're trying to manipulate public opinion...
Manipulate it? Says who? A bunch of people online?
They're outraged today.
Give it two days, and they'll move on.
No trending story lasts more than three days.
But... Enough!
We're a multinational airline.
Legal, PR, media connections.
Which one of those can she compete with?
What's she going to do?
Just do what I said.
Did you find anything on that woman?
We found a few things.
Go on.
Her name is Moria.
Her rebooking records and boarding records all check out.
But, sir, there's almost nothing about her in the public record.
What do you mean, almost nothing?
All we can confirm is that she works in the legal field.
We can't tell whether she's a lawyer, in-house counsel, or a legal consultant.
And she's kept a low profile over the past few years.
There's very little information about her anywhere.
So what?
She's just a woman traveling alone with a baby.
If she really had any clout, why didn't she say who she was?
She got off the plane in the end, didn't she?
Hello. This is the passenger from seat 14A on yesterday's flight.
Clean up whatever's online.
I don't want this affecting me.
Frank, PR's already working on it.
But online, everyone's coming after you.
She refused to cooperate.
This is her fault, not mine.
Don't try to pin this on me.
But legal just said that woman could be... I don't care.
Just make it go away.
You can't even handle something this simple?
What's going on with that video online?
Don't worry about it. It's nothing.
But what if they find out you used someone else's membership?
Relax.
Ground services gave me VIP clearance. The system's clean.
Nobody's going to trace it back to me.
She's just a woman with a baby.
She made a fuss, and now it's over.
What's she going to do about it?
Good morning, everyone.
We'd like to address the passenger incident from one of our recent flights
that's been circulating online.
Based on our initial review, this appears to have been an unfortunate
misunderstanding involving a seating issue between two passengers.
Are you sure it was just a misunderstanding?
Yes. Seat reassignments happen from time to time. Our crew did everything they
could to resolve the situation, but unfortunately...
A passenger became emotional and refused to cooperate, briefly disrupting order
on board.
We've also seen videos online that have been edited to stir up emotions.
We can't rule out the possibility that someone is using this incident to play
the victim.
We reserve the right to take legal action against anyone who deliberately
spreads false information.
Are you saying that mother made the whole thing up for attention?
So you're saying the video of your crew taking her baby is fake?
Your flight attendant forcibly took a child from a passenger's arm. That's
your idea of resolving the situation?
The video's all over the internet. Hundreds of millions of people have seen
it. What are you still verifying?
Whether that baby cried hard enough?
Has the mother hired a lawyer?
Has your company been served with any legal papers?
Not at this time.
I believe any reasonable person would resolve this through the proper legal
process, not by stirring up public outrage online.
We'll wait for the investigation to reach its conclusions, and I'd also like
to remind certain people not to exploit the public's goodwill.
That concludes today's press conference.
Sir,
things have completely blown up. That press conference...
Only made everything worse.
What about the people we hired?
Didn't I tell you to flood the comments saying she was trying to scam us?
People aren't buying.
They're saying we're treating the public like idiots.
The internet is
exploding.
The top trending topic is everyone asking you to take them to court.
The weapon's been ready for a long time.
All that's left is to pull the trigger.
If you've already got everything ready, what are you waiting for?
I'm waiting for them to say everything they're going to say and make sure they
leave themselves no way out.
Sir, we've just received an express delivery from a top law firm.
Just leave it there.
Plaintiff Moria.
Defenders the airline and Frank.
Joint to liability.
47 pieces of evidence!
Find out who the plaintiff's lawyer is.
Which law firm is handling this?
Sir, the plaintiff's attorney is the plaintiff herself.
What do you mean?
Maura is a lawyer, an internationally recognized aviation law expert.
Look what you've done.
Do you have any idea who that passenger really is?
She's just a woman traveling with a baby. She's one of the world's leading
aviation lawyers.
Do you have any idea how much the biggest judgment she's won against an
airline cost them?
So what do we do now? Is it too late to take down the trending topic and delete
the comment?
Too late?
Read it yourself.
Deleting videos, manipulating public opinion, calling her an attention
seeker. She had every bit of it preserved and notarized.
It's all in her evidence list in black and white.
She's going to shove it right back in our faces in court.
Your Honor, this was a routine seat assignment dispute.
The crew followed company policy and nothing they did was improper.
Your Honor, the plaintiff claims to be an aviation law expert, so she should
know better than anyone that outrage is not evident.
Most of her exhibits are private recordings and internal documents of
unknown origin.
We respectfully ask the court to exclude them.
I'm pleased the defense raised admissibility.
It tells me you understand exactly what those documents will prove once they're
admitted.
First, passengers are legally allowed to record matters of public interest in
public areas.
Those recordings invade no one's privacy and are admissible.
The relevant judicial explanation can be found in Appendix 3.
Second, As for these so-called internal records of unknown origin, their source
is not unknown at all.
Every one of them was obtained through a court-authorized discovery order served
on your company and the relevant systems.
Every request was approved by the court.
Every document was notarized.
They're all in your honor's case file.
Counsel, are you suggesting that records produced by your own client?
and verified by both the court and a notary are somehow of unknown origin?
That's not what I meant.
Then please sit down and let me present my evidence.
Your Honor, the plaintiff submits Exhibit 1.
These are two boarding passes.
Both are for Seat 14A.
One was issued 36 hours before the flight. The other was issued just three
hours before departure.
After selling that seat once, the airline turned around and sold the exact
same seat again.
That is what the defense keeps calling a seat dispute, an oversold flight that
produced two boarding passes for 14A.
Under the applicable regulations, when an airline overbooks a flight and a
passenger is denied boarding, the airline must first secure the
passenger's voluntary agreement before rebooking them and provide appropriate
compensation.
The key point is that it has to be voluntary.
Now let's turn to Exhibit 2.
This footage was recorded by multiple passengers at the scene.
Your Honor.
Please direct your attention to the 317 mark.
Does this look voluntary?
Is this what the airline calls standard procedure?
With no legal authority and without the Guardian's consent, the crew attempted
to forcibly separate an infant from her mother.
Counsel, tell the court which industry rule gave your client that right.
We believe the crew was acting to maintain order.
Maintain order?
Then perhaps counsel can point me to the exact section of your company's cabin
service manual that allows crew members to put their hands on a passenger who
has clearly refused, especially with an infant involved.
I need some time to check.
No need.
I've already checked.
Your company's manual has no such provision.
Chapter 7 couldn't be clearer.
Under no circumstances may crew members use force against a passenger.
When elderly passengers, children, pregnant women, or passengers traveling
with infants are involved, they are to be given priority care and assistance.
Those are your company's own rules.
So you weren't following standard procedure?
You were blatantly violating your own written policy.
Even if that is true, the crew was under pressure from the delay.
Their actions may have been inappropriate, but there was no
malicious intent.
No malicious intention?
Good. Please remember those words.
Because in just a moment...
I'm going to show you exactly what malicious intent looks like.
You say they were maintaining order.
Let's see exactly how they plan to maintain it.
If she won't move, Owl, take the baby first.
See if she still refuses then.
Before they ever tried to remove me from the aircraft, the crew said this on
record. This wasn't about maintaining order. It was a deliberate attempt to
pressure a passenger into compliance by targeting her child.
Your Honor, we submit that this goes far beyond a procedural violation.
This was targeted bullying against a woman traveling alone with an infant.
And that's only part of the airline's liability.
Now I'd like to ask the second defendant, Frank Lincoln, a few
questions.
I found something very interesting about that supposedly valid boarding pass of
yours.
What's there to answer? I had a ticket.
I had a seat.
I was a legitimate passenger.
You refused to move.
How is that my fault?
A legitimate passenger.
Good. Then let's talk about how legitimate you really were.
Your Honor, these are the complete check-in and boarding records for the
flight in question obtained from the defendant airline through a court
-approved evidence request.
According to these records, Seat 14A was first and lawfully assigned to the
plaintiff, Moria.
My boarding pass was issued 36 hours before the flight.
The second defendant, Frank, also received a boarding pass for seat 14A.
His was issued just three hours before departure.
When he checked in, he falsely claimed platinum status to trigger priority seat
protection.
But the records confirm that the platinum membership he used actually
belonged to another passenger, who wasn't even on that flight.
In other words...
Frank used someone else's membership information to falsely claim platinum
privileges, which led the check-in agent to manually apply the airline's platinum
seat protection policy.
Under normal circumstances, the system should have canceled the original window
seat assignment and reassigned it. But because the flight was about to close
for boarding, the system issued Frank a boarding pass without canceling my valid
one. So the duplicate 14A assignment was not caused by me. It was caused by the
defendant airline.
The airline system flaw, combined with Frank's misuse of someone else's
membership, created the duplicate seat.
He was never a legitimate passenger to begin with.
From the start, he was the first person who broke the rules and the first person
who lied.
That's a lie.
You're making it all up.
Then what was it?
The system records and verification logs are right here.
Frank, would you like to explain to the court how you just happened to be using
someone else's membership?
A friend let me use his membership. So what?
What's wrong with that?
A friend?
Then why did this so-called friend state under questioning that he doesn't even
know you and never authorized anyone to use his account?
That's... He must have remembered it wrong.
He remembered it wrong?
Did the airline boarding system remember it wrong, too? Did the membership
verification logs remember it wrong, too?
Frank, every word you add... is another lie.
You didn't borrow that membership.
You impersonated someone.
You used an identity that wasn't yours to cut the boarding line and take
someone else's seat.
Then you demanded that a mother traveling alone with her baby make room
for your lie.
Do you still want to keep explaining?
Your Honor, the plaintiff requests permission to submit Exhibit 5, our
final exhibit.
This is an internal crew communication record from the defendant airline.
It survived deletion, was obtained lawfully, and has been noted.
What's taking so long with 14A? The tower's called three times already.
14A's a woman traveling alone with a baby. Then get her off. She's alone with
a baby. She'll be easy.
Don't touch Frank. He's trouble.
Pick the weak one.
Hurry up before we delay the flight.
So that's what this was.
They targeted her because she was alone with a baby.
And that's what the airline calls procedure?
Counsel, just moments ago you told this court the crew acted without malicious
intent.
Now I'd like you to read that message again.
Pick the weak one.
Does that sound like no malicious intention to you?
I want my own lawyer. I don't accept this. Those recordings are fake.
The authenticity of this evidence has already been verified through
notarization and forensic examination.
Frank Lincoln, mind your conduct.
Using someone else's identity to board a flight may itself constitute a criminal
offense.
This court will refer the matter to the appropriate authorities for further
investigation.
Look at him. He was so cocky a minute ago, now he can barely stand.
Playing platinum member with someone else's account serves him right.
Your Honor, this case is not an attack on the airline industry, quite the
opposite. It's because the vast majority of airlines and aviation professionals
follow the rules and protect their passengers.
That we cannot let one company hide violations behind so-called standard
practice or use efficiency to crush a passenger's dignity. The defendant
airline oversold the flight, unlawfully removed the passenger, then smeared the
victim as an attention seeker afterwards.
And the defendant, Frank Lincoln, impersonated another passenger,
falsified his information, and openly insulted and intimidated a mother
traveling alone with her baby.
That chat record proved they didn't target me because I refused to
cooperate.
They targeted me because, to them, a woman alone with a child was the easiest
person to break.
30,000 feet.
An aircraft shouldn't belong to power or arrogance.
It should be every passenger's safe way home.
A passenger's dignity doesn't depend on nationality, status, or power.
No so-called standard practice gives anyone the right to trample it.
I stand here today not just for myself and my child.
but to make sure everyone knows rules are meant to protect the vulnerable, not
make them easier to exploit.
That concludes my statement.
Order.
Based on the evidence, this court finds that the defendant airline sold the same
seat twice, constituting an overbooking breach.
The court further finds that despite the plaintiff's explicit refusal and the
presence of her infant child, the crew violated the airline's own service
rules, attempted to separate the infant from her guardian, and unlawfully
removed them from the aircraft, seriously infringing the plaintiff's and
child's rights to personal safety and health.
After the incident, the airline's PR personnel directed the spread of false
information, publicly defaming the plaintiff and aggravating the harm.
The circumstances are egregious, and this court will impose severe penalties.
The defendant, Frank Langton, fraudulently used another person's
identity, falsely claimed priority boarding privileges, improperly obtained
boarding rights, and, while aboard, insulted and coerced the plaintiff.
Together with the airline crew's unlawful conduct, His actions constitute
joint torp responsibility.
The court orders as follows.
First, the defendant airline shall issue a public apology to the plaintiff,
Moria, and her child.
The apology shall be published on the airline's official platforms and in no
fewer than three major media etnets for seven consecutive days.
Second, the defendant airline shall pay $1.86 million in damages for emotional
distress and violations of personal rights.
That much money?
Order!
Third, the defendant, Frank Lincoln, shall pay the plaintiff, Moria, $400,000
for fraudulently using another person's identity to board the flight and for his
joint responsibility in this matter.
His fraudulent use of another person's identity has also been referred to law
enforcement for further action.
No way.
$400,000 over one seat?
Not over a seat.
Over your lies and what you did.
Frank, sit down.
After today's ruling, this court will also issue recommendations to the
Federal Aviation Administration and the relevant industry associations.
The responsible personnel at the defendant airline shall be referred to
the appropriate ordies for accountability under the law.
Court is adjourned.
Regulators found that the airline failed to properly disclose its overbooking
practices. mishandled the onboard incident, and later spread false
information to mislead the public.
A $5 million feign has been imposed.
The route involved will be suspended for three months, and all cabin service
procedures must undergo a comprehensive review and overhaul.
The airline must also establish a $6 million passenger rights protection fund
for passenger support and legal aid.
Chief Pursuer Marlene Kyle as the senior crew member in charge, acted with clear
malicious intent and unlawfully ordered the forced removal.
Her cabin crew certification is revoked, and she will be placed on the industry
regulatory watch list.
Flight attendant employee ID 02473, as the individual who directly carried out
the forceful removal, will have his cabin crew certification suspended for
five years and will face further accountability.
As for the executive who called the passengers' ordeal a sympathy stunt at
the press conference, the board has decided to remove him from his position
as Senior Director of Public Affairs and terminate his employment, effective
immediately.
During the corrective period, the airline will implement a strict no-force
depredation policy, priority assistance for vulnerable passengers, and mandatory
disclosure and voluntary rebooking procedure.
for oversold flights.
This incident resulted from misconduct by one company and a handful of
individuals. The vast majority of airlines across the country operate in
compliance with the law, and regulators will use this case to further strengthen
industry standards and better protect the lawful rights of all passengers.
After our investigation, we have confirmed that Frank fraudulently used
another person's identity while traveling on personal business and
insulted and intimidated other passengers, seriously violating our code
of conduct and causing serious damage to our company's reputation.
Effective immediately, all employment agreements with Frank are terminated and
he will be placed on the industry blacklist.
Ms. Wayne.
The damages have come through.
Both the airline's and Frank's payments have been deposited into the enforcement
account.
Understood.
Set aside $600,000 for my personal damages.
I want to establish a dedicated fund.
We'll call it the Horizons Fund.
$600,000. Miss Wayne.
That's the compensation you and your baby received for everything you went
through. Exactly.
That's why it should go somewhere useful.
This isn't charity for show, and it isn't a publicity stunt.
It's for people who went through what I went through, but don't have the
resources to fight back.
They'll receive free legal aid.
Miss Wayne, honestly, back on that plane, I never would have guessed you
were a lawyer.
You just knew what they were doing was wrong, didn't you?
Yeah.
Everyone else kept their heads down.
I almost did, too.
But then I thought, if I looked away that day, next time it could be my mom.
Or me.
See?
You already knew the answer.
Most people know right from wrong.
They just think they're facing it alone.
I want this foundation to remind them they aren't.
Sweetheart, do you see that light?
That's the way.
Home.
Come on.
Mommy's taking you home.
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