Jessica Chastain faces backlash for ‘embarrassing’ complaint about JetBlue flight

[hewontgo]

Jessica Chastain faces backlash for ‘embarrassing’ complaint about JetBlue flight: ‘Read the room’ https://t.co/VR9segtajp pic.twitter.com/ABw3YB3aPt
- Page Six (@PageSix) October 11, 2024
Jessica Chastain found herself under fire from social media users after she publicly called out JetBlue because their inflight entertainment was down during a

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[blazingeternity]

Her stressing how much she paid for it is a bit meh, but imo 15 USD for six hours without a working entertainment system is a joke. No matter how much someone paid; I'm sure the cheapest tickets were also several hundreds, and having inflight entertainment is part of what you pay for. The reimbursement should be the same for everyone of course, but higher.

[slaughtermatic]

I thought you paid for being chauffeured across the skies in a roaring metal bird propelled by tiny explosions and living to tell the tale, not watching Mama Mia 2 on a four inch screen, but im used to Ryan Air so what do I know.

[blazingeternity]

Fair, my last flights were also all short-distance with low-cost carriers without any entertainment provided. Totally fine! But on my expensive long-distance journeys it was explicitly advertised as part of the flight sold to me, so I would expect an adequate compensation if it turns out unavailable. *Up for debate what "adequate" is and I think the average seat price for the flight in question should be taken into consideration. But if I understand correctly, they also only offered a credit, so something to use on booking your next flight with them... so they're technically not losing money, and could give you ~45 instead of 15?

[la_loony]

For long flights I'd say you do pay for the inflight entertainment too, where else would airlines get the money to pay the licences for the movies etc. they have. Not sure how much of a ticket goes into the inflight entertainment pot though.

[therearewords]

Yeah, at least triple that number sorta like the equivalent of three film tickets? Maybe?

[blazingeternity]

A brilliant idea tbh xD