Did this really happen?

[B190Captain]

"On a recent Continental Airlines flight, the airline's CEO Gordon Bethune had pre-boarded the aircraft and was sitting on the flight deck chatting with the Captain and First Officer. He left the flight deck just before pushback to take his assigned First Class seat. A OnePass Platinum Elite member boarded just before the flight pushed, and was furious that he had not been upgraded. Seeing several First Class seats open, he began to argue with the flight attendant over why he had not been upgraded. The flight attendant said she would get a gate agent to look into the matter, but the Elite member began swearing at her profusely. Gordon was on his way back from the cockpit when this occurred, and intervened, asking, "Can I help somehow?" The passenger said, "Huh? Who the f*** are you?"
"I'm the CEO of this company," Gordon replied. "May I see your ticket, sir?" The passenger gave his ticket to Gordon, who saw a total fare of just under six hundred dollars. He then pulled out his billfold and peeled off six $100 bills, placing them in the man's hand. And then he tore the ticket up. "Now," Gordon said, "you get the f*** off my airplane!" The flight attendant could barely contain herself."

More than like untrue - but entertaining, none the less

 

[jon210]

Don't know, but I sure hope so. No one should be degraded like the FA possbly was. In any business.

 

[Alaskaairlines]

Wow!

 

[jjbiv]

I wish it was true...rather, I wish it was our CEO who had the balls to say that.

Unfortunately, according to the Urban Legends Reference Pages, it is not. See http://www.snopes.com/business/consumer/bethune.htm

joe

 

[Boeingman]

Not true

I asked Gordon about this story recently and he said it did not happen.

 

[Humblepilot]

He Started It

You know old Gordo started the story himself.

Plus he is too busy with his putting down the rest of the airline industry. He is like a dictator of a country that has deep internal problems so to draw attention away, you focus on the enemy instead of the problems at home.

 

[embdrvr]

Re: He Started It

He is like a dictator of a country that has deep internal problems so to draw attention away, you focus on the enemy instead of the problems at home.

Is there strategy reserved solely for dictators? There seems to be an elected president guilty of that.

 

[Humblepilot]

Re: Re: He Started It

Is there strategy reserved solely for dictators? There seems to be an elected president guilty of that.

Ohhhhhhhhh you mean the right wing's conspiracy(Bilary's words) to get Billie when in reality he just wanted Monica to suck his cigar?

Or Ronnie Raygun blaming Oly?

Doesn't matter which party or which President.

Humble