One person labeled Slater a hero for "doing that which everyone who has traveled by airplane dreams”. However the court rules, Slater’s actions on Monday were inappropriate from the time he was in a confrontation with the passenger right up to the time of his arrest. There are appropriate responses that a flight attendant could have taken given Slater’s story that would have been appropriate and lawful. Slater is no hero. He merely put each and everyone one of those passengers and anyone around that aircraft at that time, in harms way.

It sounds like Slater has a good defense for post traumatic stress but not an argument for remaining a flight attendant. Passengers should be able to take a flight and that flight should be uneventful. There is no place on an aircraft, on the ground or in flight, where people should be fighting and, pilots and or flight attendants drinking or engaged in inappropriate behaviors. Pilots and flight attendants are paid to do a job no matter how inconvenienced they maybe, or stressors they are dealing with or upset with pay. The minute a pilot and flight attendant board an aircraft the only thing they should be concerned with is the safety of the passengers.