JetBlue Flight Crew Goes Extra Mile for Orlando Shooting Victim’s Grandma

The grandmother of Orlando shooting victim Luis Omar Ocasio-Capo — who was gunned down at 20 years old — boarded a JetBlue Airways flight to Orlando to join her family to mourn her grandson’s death. But what could have been a standard, anonymous flight experience turned out to be something much more.

Flight attendants and gate agents were “by her side” at all times, making sure she was “as comfortable as possible.” And then they got the other passengers involved.

During beverage service, the flight crew passed a piece of paper around to everyone on board so they could sign it for the grieving woman.

Instead of just signing it, though, people wrote long notes—so long that flight attendants passed out multiple pieces of paper, which they presented to the grandmother, along with a few cash donations.

With her permission, the crew asked for a moment of silence in her grandson’s memory after the plane landed. And then, while deplaning, every single passenger stopped to give their condolences. “Not a single person was impatient at the slower deplaning process,” Karas writes. “In spite of a few hateful, broken human beings in this world … people ARE kind.

Agencies/Canadajournal