The Washington Post says some passengers on a United Airlines flight to LA were irked that a flight attendant uttered the words “God Bless You” over the aircraft public address system.
Passenger Ken Bicknell says he was taken aback when the attendant thanked him and the others for flying United and then concluded the statement with “God bless you all.”
"I just wondered if it was appropriate,'' said Bicknell, a San Francisco-based government consultant. "You're a captive audience and you have to listen to what the flight attendant tells you.''
The paper found one Michael Tomaro, a Milwaukee-based psychologist who specializes in fearful flying, to say that such comments could “trigger latent fears in passengers who aren't terribly comfortable aboard an airliner. Tomaro said fearful fliers could misconstrue such statements and think the attendant is invoking God's help for a safe journey.”
