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18 Apr 2023


NextImg:Furious passenger claims she was kicked off flight for having a mimosa

She wasn’t feeling bubbly.

A woman was allegedly thrown off an Alaska Airlines flight earlier this month after a flight attendant claimed the passenger was drunk.

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The TikTok user posted about the injustice she allegedly suffered on the social media app and has since gained 895,000 views on the video.

TikTokker Kandace H. claimed that she was waiting for her flight from Portland, Oregon back home to Las Vegas when she stopped to get a mimosa at the airport terminal bar.

“THIS IS COMPLETELY UNACCEPTABLE !! I AM LIVID,” reads the video’s caption. “The flight attendants on flight #714 from Portland to Vegas need to be fired!”

In the video, Kandace begins to explain that she had stopped for a drink — one and a half mimosas, to be exact — with her coworkers at the airport before boarding their respective flights.

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Upon boarding, Kandace needed to use the plane’s bathroom — a first-time event for her who typically avoids public restrooms.

According to TikToker Kandace H, she was waiting for her flight home to Las Vegas from Portland, Oregon when she stopped to get a mimosa at a nearby bar.
Tiktok / kandace_h

Therefore, this was unfamiliar territory for Kandace, who was forced to ask a flight attendant how the lights work.

“I go in the bathroom, the light didn’t come on,” she recalled, revealing that while she attempted to solve the bathroom light issue, she was on the phone with her coworkers, who were booked on separate flights, to help minimize her anxiety.

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After spending nearly 10 minutes in the bathroom, Kandace emerged from the lavatory to find the flight attendant waiting for her.

According furious passenger, the flight attendant said that Kandace was  “slurring her words” and whispering “I’m drunk, shhh."

The flight attendant said that Kandace was  “slurring her words” and whispering “I’m drunk, shhh.”
Tiktok / kandace_h

“I was like, ‘I mean I did have a drink at the bar, but who doesn’t? There are literally bars at the airport’,” Kandace said during her TikTok travel update. “I had a mimosa; well, one and a half — I didn’t even finish the second one because I had to get to the gate.”

Kandace said she made her way back to her seat and was soon approached by the gate agent who then asked the bemused passenger to leave the plane.

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“The lady comes up to me, and she’s like ‘excuse me, ma’am,’ and I’m thinking she’s going to tell me to put my backpack underneath the seat because I had it in my lap,” Kandace continued.

According to a follow-up video, Kandace revealed that several people around her attempted to thwart her removal from the plane by saying that she was fine and that everyone drinks at the bar.

According to a follow-up video, Kandace revealed that several people around her attempted to thwart her removal from the plane by saying that she was fine and that everyone drinks at the bar.
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The gate agent reportedly told Kandace that the flight attendant alleged she was “slurring her words” and whispered “I’m drunk, shhh.”

“I don’t have a problem with saying that I had a drink, but I’m not belligerent, I’m not drunk,” she told her followers on TikTok. “I literally thought it was a joke.”

Kandace told viewers that she initially thought the stunt was a joke.

“I asked her like four times: ‘Are you kidding me?’,” said Kandace. “They just pulled me off the plane, we were literally about to take off.”

The passenger was forced then to wait for the next flight at 10 p.m. to get home.

“I am p- -sed,” she concluded in the video.

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@kandace_h

SPREAD THE WORD ! @alaskaair THIS IS COMPLETELY UNACCEPTABLE !! I AM LIVID !!! The flight attendants on flight #714 from Portland to Vegas need to be fired !! I was BLATANTLY lied on & removed from the plane…UTTERLY embarrassed by your staff !!! I have flown with this company too many times & have only had pleasant things to say about it, until today ! #pdx #alaskaairlines #discrimination #foryou #fyp

♬ original sound – Kandace H

Soon, several TikTokers also expressed their outrage.

“So why they selling drinks in the airport if they don’t allow y’all to be drunk,” pondered one viewer.

According to a follow-up video, Kandace also revealed that several travelers around her tried to vouch for her sobriety and thwart her removal from the plane.

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The Post reached out to Kandace and Alaska Airlines for comment.