BREAKING NEWS – Quebec City, Quebec, Canada – An Air Canada passenger filed a complaint with language authorities after a flight attendant was unable to serve him in French.
Jean-Pierre Beaudoin told the Canadian French-language channel TVA Nouvelles that he was flying in business class last month from Quebec City to Fort Lauderdale, Florida when a flight attendant who only spoke English served him.
He asked for a bilingual flight attendant to serve him so that he could speak in French.
Beaudoin told TVA the crew member spoke to a colleague and then told him “in English, ‘Sir, this is my section. You have the right to leave the plane or I will serve you.'”
A similar incident happened in 2021 when an African American on a United Airlines in Chicahgo, demanded to have a flight attendant speak to him in jive or Ebonics. When the Caucasian flight attendant said she didn’t know how to do it, she said “he grabbed his luggage and rhythmically strutted down the aisle and left the plane.” She later added, “He looked smooth, real smooth.”