Flight Attendant to Gay Couple: Stop the Touching and Kissing or We’ll Divert this Plane

Travel Blog  •  Michael Yessis  •  09.26.06 | 7:31 AM ET

The New Yorker’s Lauren Collins has the sad tale of boyfriends who were singled out by a flight attendant for kissing— “not kiss kiss, just mwah,” said George Tsikhiseli, one of the kissers—and told to behave or the pilot would divert the American Airlines Paris to New York flight. As Andrew Sullivan wrote, “I think American Airlines just lost a lot of potential customers.”