Airline apologizes for male flight attendant harassing a 15-year-old

Australian airline Jetstar has recently apologized to Sunshine Coast-to-Melbourne passenger Elizabeth, who got a little more than she asked for on her flight.

Elizabeth’s 15-year-old daughter was harassed on Facebook by a male Jetstar flight attendant who met her on the plane, and reportedly got her name from her boarding pass. The 15-year-old, whose 16-year-old sister was also on the flight, received a Facebook friend request from the man, and when she ignored it, she started receiving messages. How’s this for creepy? From Switched.com:

“I’ve never wanted to add a 16-year-old before… um, well you seem quite mature maybe we might come friends. Here is my number….do you even have a phone? What area do you live in?

According to The Straits Times, Jetstar rep Simon Westaway has said: “We had a very senior manager contact the mother … We have expressed an apology to her.”

FoxNews.com reports that the mother Elizabeth “worried especially during the school holidays that he had made other such requests and impressionable young girls had accepted them.

My thought on this is: even if it were well-over-15-me, I’d have reported this guy for … I guess an invasion of my privacy? I don’t know. There’s so little shielding our information from customer service representatives of all types.

Do you think the law should protect our information, or perhaps just our children’s information, from the eyes of representatives like flight attendants? And then what do we become … numbers? How on Earth do we fix a conundrum like this?