A Frontier Airlines passenger claims that two employees tried to extort money from him while he was getting ready to board his flight, as reported by WSBTV. The passenger, Demonta Roach, said the employees tried pressuring him to send them money via Cash App to buy weed and get their nails done.
Roach believes this wasn’t the first time the employees have done something like this.
“Her words: I don’t give a damn what you’re in, as long as you have my damn money,”
Roach said is what the employees told him.
“Her friend said, we normally charge $100 for this but since you’re in the military we’ll charge you $50,”
Roach said referring to a military discount he didn’t ask for.
In the video, the employees repeatedly ask Roach to send them money through Cash App. Roach told Channel 2 reporter Ashli Lincoln that he was on his way back to his Navy base in Los Angeles when two Frontier gate agents tried to squeeze him out of $50 before allowing him to board his flight at the Atlanta Airport.
“It happened Monday on Veteran’s Day,”
he said.
After getting to the airport two hours early, Roach found out that his flight was delayed. He decided to get something to eat only about
“50 steps from the gate.”
When he came back, he was the last person to board. However, he had arrived well before the final boarding call.
“The lady closed the door, she said, ‘I don’t care who you report to if you want to get back on this plane, you have to pay me,’”
he said. When he refused to pay they threatened to get him removed from the flight.
Roach said he finally managed to board the plane after pretending he would send the employees the money. Lincoln reached out to the airline to which they replied,
“We take claims like this seriously, and our team is in the process of investigating the situation to determine what happened. In the meantime, we have offered the customer a voucher for $150 as a customer service gesture.”
#Clique, what are your thoughts?
