'Fine. Cancel the trip. The whole thing': Entitled Karen denied early boarding on flight, threatens to cancel the trip, gate agent maliciously complies

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Ben Weiss • Writer and Editor
Oct 24, 2024 8:00 AM EDT

Boarding a flight can feel like an interminable process, especially if you have found yourself in the final boarding group. Sometimes, you try to position yourself at the gate so that you'll be the first person in line when your group is finally called, but people end up thinking you're already in line and you have to step aside because you are not, in fact, worthy enough of being in Groups 1 through 4. 

Here, we have an entitled Karen passenger who insisted on being bumped up to an earlier boarding group despite having no legitimate reason or justification for the change. The gate agent tried to explain to the Karen customer that it was too late and she would have to wait her turn, but that was simply not enough for this lady. Instead, she continued to throw a temper tantrum and even said the words, "Fine. Cancel the trip." 

Well, the gate agent ended up doing just that, much to the Karen's surprise. Keep scrolling below for the full story and for the funniest reactions. For more stories like this, take a look at this post about a teenaged daughter who maliciously complied to get back at her strict mom.

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    Airline agent calls Karen's bluff S Important context: The airline in question doesn't assign seats, but they do have a well-defined, orderly boarding process.
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    On the day in question, an ATC outage at one airport borked things nationwide--chains of delayed flights (including ours),
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    connections messed up (quite a few of them on our plane alone), the whole nine yards, and Karen is parked at the desk at our gate.
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    She's clearly already asked for and received a manager. She's at the "quiet but palpable fury" stage.
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    The problem, you see, is that her boarding position is unsatisfactory.
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    She simply must be one of the first people on the plane. No, boarding after the first group isn't acceptable. She demands that they give her a better number. They point out that those spots already belong to other people and, oddly enough,
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    they refuse to boot another passenger from their rightful boarding position for her convenience.
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    So she pulls out what she thinks is the big guns: "Fine. Cancel the trip. The whole thing."
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    And they did, without blinking an eye. The manager calmly, professionally charged her a cancellation fee and then disappeared before I could thank him on behalf of the rest of the passengers on our 3.5-hour flight.
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    It was so delicious to watch-- definitely the most satisfying thing I have witnessed in a while. I am comfortable assuming that we would have been diverted somewhere so local law enforcement could treat her to an involuntary layover.
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    • night-otter 10h ago. It's most likely the same airline. I'm flying home after working at COMDEX in Las Vegas. The morning after it ended, the airlines were under a huge load. All the attendees and folks who worked it were trying to leave. The hotel warned me to show up at the airport four hours early.
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    I'm in the regular line; it took over two hours to get to the point of seeing the check-in counter. Even the Business Select line was long.
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    Here comes someone walking right past all the lines. He interrupts the clerk, obviously demanding to be checked in RIGHT NOW.
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    She is already dead eyed from the long day and points to the end of the line. He says something else. {Note I really witnessed this}
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    The clerk gets on the PA, "Can anybody help this man? He seems to have forgotten who he is." The man stalks off.
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    Guy in line near me, "I know who he is. He the VP of one of our vendors. He's always a a
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    carmium • 8h ago Tell me she was still standing there, eyes wide and mouth working like a fish, when you boarded, please!
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    stgdevil 11h ago • I thought SW didn't have cancel fees? Also, how do they make her pay?
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    Crazy-Rat_Lady 10h ago • Gotta love the Karma plane!
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    rnewscates73 • 1h ago She obviously needs to fly on a private jet. She shouldn't be forced to huddle with peasants like a cattle car. I mean she didn't pay for first class, but she is still special.
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