The image of flight attendant Steven Slater telling JetBlue passengers to f--- off before sliding down an emergency slide with a couple of bottles of beer in his hand made him an obvious tabloid figure, but it's surprising to see that this example of airline arrogance and incompetence has been turned into some kind of working class hero when he's more a symbol of all that's wrong with air travel the past ten years, and an airline industry that treats customers as badly in the sky as they do on the ground, overbooking and canceling flights, charging us for blankets, food and maybe even the toilet while tossing us half bags of peanuts and telling us we ought to be grateful.
