JetBlue Kicks Family With 2-Year-Old Off Flight From Boston
BOSTON (CBS) -- A Virginia family was kicked off a JetBlue flight leaving Boston earlier this week after their 2-year-old son wouldn't stay in his own seat.
A flight attendant asked the Doshi family to keep their child in his designated seat for takeoff Monday on the flight to Baltimore–Washington International Airport .
The family told CBS affiliate WUSA9 they were complying.
"Not even one minute later, another stewardess came by told me, you need to keep him in his seat. I said, I got it. She said what? I said I got the lecture from the other stewardess. That just set her off. She said 'do we have a problem here? I can turn this plane back to the gate. I said no I got the message," mother Mona Doshi explained.
The Doshi's then noticed the plane had returned to the gate and the family was then escorted off the plane.
The family says they've flown many times before with their 3 1/2 year old daughter and 2-year-old son, but this was the first time their son Milin had his own seat.
"We were treated like we were criminals really," said Mona. "Ordered us off the plane, ordered us to collect our belongings and ordered us off the plane as if we were terrorists."
Mona said Milin was crying so she put him on her lap while the plane was headed to the runway.
The family said the attendant on their flight to Boston said the boy could sit on Mona's lap during take off. But the attendant for this flight requested Milin be in his own seat.
"As soon as they asked us to put him in his seat we put him in his seat," said father Prishant Doshi.
In a statement to WUSA9, JetBlue said: "We want our customers to have a safe and comfortable experience on board. Safety is always our top priority, and if our crew feels there is a situation where a customer is unable to follow safety procedures, those customers may need to be accommodated on a future flight."