Alaska Air Group Inc. (ticker: ALK) sent a clear message to catcallers: Not on our flight.
Amber Nelson, an Alaska Airlines passenger on a recent Seattle flight, posted on Facebook (FB) about a man that called out “ohh, sexy!” during a flight attendant safety demonstration.
Nelson, along with the two women in her row, were unsure of what to do next. “Before we could do more than glare in his direction, the flight attendant removed her vest, purposely walked up to him and said, ‘You need to be respectful,’ and started to walk back to her task,” Nelson said in her Facebook post. “He said, ‘C’mon, I’m just playing with you!'”
Later, an airline employee told the man to take his belongings and leave the plane.
The airline’s media relations manager Ann Johnson Zaninovich corroborated Nelson’s story in an email to Fortune. “We stand behind the actions taken by our employees,” she told Fortune.
Sexual harassment accounts and accusations have been flooding the news cycle in recent days regarding Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump. Wednesday, several news organizations published women’s stories recounting Trump’s alleged sexual harassment. This all follows a leaked tape of Trump talking to Billy Bush about groping women, which Trump has referred to as merely “locker room talk.”
ALK stock is down 12.5 percent on the year, although it climbed 2.5 percent on Thursday morning.
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