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Article: US flight attendants call for boycott of Disney's 'Flightplan'.(Brief Article)
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- Airline Industry Information
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- September 29, 2005
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The Association of Professional Flight Attendants, the Association of Flight Attendants and the Transport Workers Union, Local 556 have called for a boycott of the movie 'Flightplan'.
The groups have said that the film could cause distrust of their members among real airline passengers. In the film Jodie Foster plays a mother who is looking for her daughter aboard an aircraft. While one of the flight attendants in the film cooperates with an air marshal to obtain a ransom from the airline, other flight attendants are shown as treating Foster's character in a rude and unsympathetic manner, The ...