Sexism At A Middle East Airline: Etihad Turned Away 2 Female Doctors During Medical Emergency [Roundup]

News and notes from around the interweb: Zoinks. I identified myself and asked for the medical bag. The male cabin manager brusquely told me to go back to my seat because he was first aid trained and didn’t need me. He told people to give the passenger oxygen (not what they needed). 2/ — Gretchen Winter, MD 🌼 (Warning: Feral) (@gretchemaben) August 27, 2026 I was not allowed to do so and had to watch him mismanage the situation from my seat. 10-15 minutes later the passenger was still on the ground in the other aisle and a flight attendant apologized and informed me that he is just “following protocol.” 4/ — Gretchen Winter, MD 🌼 (Warning: Feral) (@gretchemaben) August 27, 2026 As I write this note they are still lying in the aisle and myself and another female physician have both been turned away. There is absolutely no good reason he couldn’t have followed his “protocol” and done his documentation while I assessed and helped the passenger. 5/ — Gretchen Winter, MD 🌼 (Warning: Feral) (@gretchemaben) August 27, 2026 I wish I could say the rest of the flight was great, but they then proceeded to serve me a frozen solid meal. At that point I was too frustrated to speak up again so I just gave up and ate a roll. pic.twitter.com/lysrvj8DeX — Gretchen Winter, MD 🌼 (Warning: Feral) (@gretchemaben) August 27, 2026 At JetBlue Gate C12 in Boston airport, a witness says a passenger deliberately pulled the fire alarm after missing a flight. The video was posted late on August 25. Massport Fire Rescue can be seen responding: Here’s a review of Mastercard’s new Hong Kong lounge serving sit down meals that’s available free to Mastercard Legend cardholders (Citi AAdvantage Globe and Executive are now being issued as World Legend, so is Strata Elite and Bilt Palladium). Hawaii is trumpeting that ‘visitor spending and arrivals have increased’ but that’s not the real story here. Spending is up because costs are up. Arrivals are up 1.7% over last year but trips have gotten 14% shorter in response to those higher costs. That’s actually bad news for Hawaii tourism. Washington State residents can get 1 Delta mile per Seahawks passing yard this season again. JetBlue is adding domestic first class and cutting the number of extra legroom coach seats. The rest of coach will get squeezed. The airline was built on extra legroom for everyone, a better coach experience across the board. That ends now. Aviation watchdog JonNYC says though that technically the number of ‘Even More’ seats may not change. Exit row seats which are extra legroom may get designated Even More (which comes with additional benefits) so that the airline can say they aren’t cutting the number of ‘premium seats’ even if extra legroom seats drop. That means flight attendants give extra snacks to a few rows, stop, and start again with passengers in the middle feeling left out. “so theres a discrepancy in what was communicated yesterday to Flight Attendants vs what was published in the Flight Attendant Manual. The Policy Rollout shows a seat map with orange seats as EvenMore in rows 4, 5, 6 and 10 and 11, the exit rows. While the FAM shows only rows 4-6… — JonNYC (@xJonNYC) August 28, 2026 “Flight Attendants are already concerned about the planned split EvenMore section. Skipping the welcome treat and free drink perk for the three rows in between EvenMore will only confuse and aggravate passengers.” — JonNYC (@xJonNYC) August 29, 2026 Topics on this page