Flight Attendants Can’t Do These Commonly Asked Things By Law or Regulation

Flight attendants hear an array of requests. While most do their best to accommodate and help passengers to ensure a safe flight, sometimes flight attendants can’t do these commonly asked things by laws and regulation…

1. Lift your bag into the overhead bin.
It’s more of a huge worker’s comp issue, but flight attendants are not allowed to lift your bag. They can help you cram it into the compartment, but they will have to ask you to check your bag if you can’t lift it or find someone else to do it for you.

2. Have an adult beverage.
Flight attendants are often offered alcohol as a show of gratuity or from a smitten passenger. However, they can’t drink a drop of booze while on duty.

3. Let you sit in vacant first class seats.
You have to upgrade before you get on the plane. Even if you are sitting next to someone who doesn’t believe in hygiene or snores, once you board, you can’t be upgraded unless you pay for it.

4. Kick a service animal off the plane.
If someone on the plane has a disability, flight attendants legally can’t have the animal removed from the plane – even if you are highly allergic. You will have to suck it up or find a different flight.

5. Walk you off the aircraft.
Flight attendants cannot step one foot off the plane until all passengers have exited the plane. They will happily call someone to help you, but they can’t walk you off themselves.

6. Let you bring alcohol on board.
By most airline regulations, flight attendants must confiscate any alcohol they see you bring on board. Drunk passengers can threaten the security of the plane, and can be kicked off the aircraft. If an airline does let you BYOB, the attendants must hold it and pour it to regulate your intake.