Frontier Airlines Attendants Put on Paid Leave After Duct-Taping Violent Passenger to Seat - Gizmodo

According to ABC 6, a 22-year-old Norwalk, Ohio resident, Maxwell Berry, allegedly assaulted a male flight attendant and groped two other female flight attendants while onboard a flight from Philadelphia to Miami.

After an attendant helped Berry get another shirt from his carry-on luggage, the report continued, he walked around for 15 minutes before groping two female flight attendants’ chests and punching a male flight attendant in the face.

“As a result, the flight attendants involved have been suspended pending further investigation.”.

However, after backlash from the Association of Flight Attendants, which represents flight attendants, as well as the video going viral on sites like Facebook and Twitter, the airline changed its tune.

“Frontier Airlines maintains the utmost value, respect, concern and support for all of our flight attendants, including those who were assaulted on this flight,” the airline told Local 10 in another statement on Tuesday.

A recent survey conducted by the Association of Flight Attendants found that of 5,000 flight attendants, at least 85% had dealt with an unruly passenger in the last year, according to the Chicago Sun-Times.