The rift between Alec Baldwin and American Airlines
is, by now, well-known. For those not familiar with the situation,
Baldwin refused to turn off his smartphone while waiting to taking off
during an American Airlines flight. He was eventually removed from the
flight and took a later AA flight to his destination, but not before
some ugly back and forth between him and the powers that be at the
airline. Given that just about everyone who flies has had a bad
experience at an airport or during a flight, it’s hard to fathom that
anyone is really going to side with the airline on this one.
Of course, Baldwin didn’t waste the opportunity to get in yet more digs
at the airline when he appeared on Saturday Night Live this past
weekend. This proves, of course, that a celebrity with an audience can
get across a message a lot better than a corporation with a PR team, a
website, a Facebook page, a Twitter account, etc.
During Baldwin’s appearance on SNL, he appeared during the "Weekend
Update" segment with Seth Meyers, where he played the role of "Captain
Steve Rogers," an American Airlines pilot. During that sketch, Baldwin
(as the AA pilot) apologized to Alec Baldwin for his problems with
American Airlines, with an incredulous Meyers standing by and
questioning him. When Seth intimated that cell phones interfere with the
plane’s communications systems, Baldwin launched into a diatribe that
just about everyone in the world must have been thinking at some point
during a flight.
Here it is in full: "You don’t believe that do, you Seth? Would you
really get on an air plane that flew 30,000 feet in the air if you
thought one Kindle switch could take it down? Come on! It’s just a cruel
joke perpetrated by the airline industry. And, we would have gotten way
with it, but Alec Baldwin was just too smart for us. He really is
something, Seth!" Hilarious stuff…of course, Baldwin’s words, said in
semi-jest, probably ring true for most people. Good luck getting
sympathy on this one AA….good luck, indeed.
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