In this situation, I would be mad as hell and I’d want some apologies, a free ticket or two, and a little humility from the airlines. I’m not really the suing type, so the lawsuit for $2 million is right out (although I don’t imagine that the plaintiff will actually receive anything like that in the settlement that is sure to follow--and after the lawyer takes his cut, the final number is bound to be relatively conservative).

But remind me to never fly JetBlue.

Mutlu says the can-finement happened Feb. 23, when he was a standby passenger for a flight from San Diego to New York.

He was told the flight was full, but a stewardess told him that he could take her assigned seat and that she would sit in the “jump seat,” said his lawyer, Zafer Akin.

Mutlu was issued a boarding pass and took Seat 2E, but got a rude awakening as he dozed off about 90 minutes into the red-eye flight, he claims.

The pilot called him to the front and “advised the plaintiff that he would have to give his seat up” to the flight attendant, the suit says.

The pilot told him the “flight attendant wanted to be more comfortable and that the ‘jump seat’ was not comfortable for her.”

A stunned Mutlu asked whether that meant he was supposed to sit in the jump seat for the rest of the five-hour flight, but the pilot told him that would be against regulations, Akin said.

The pilot told him to “hang out” in the bathroom,” the suit says, adding the stewardess took Mutlu’s seat, “closed her eyes and pretended to sleep.

I’m also guessing that being seated in the bathroom, with no safety gear and no seat buckle is as against regulations as if Mutlu had been allowed to sit in the jump seat.

Now, once you read the whole thing, maybe we could talk about the appalling writing from the NY Post…

Read the rest. If you dare...