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Juvenile is beefin’ with American Airlines after feeling disrespected on a recent flight. On Thursday (August 22), footage surfaced of the artist popping off while voluntarily deboarding from an AA flight. He claimed that the airlines attempted to bump him from first class to coach without reason.
The ‘Ha’ artist shared his interaction with an airline employee via Instagram Live. Apparently, the attendant requested he switch cabins, which upset Juvenile.
He was reportedly traveling with his wife to Fort Worth, Texas, per circulating footage. In one clip, she’s heard saying, “We have the seats. I’m his wife, so how could you downgrade him, and I can still stay?”
Meanwhile, the artist boasted about being a household name and promised the involved employee would face “repercussions.” Rather than moving seats, Juveline opted to ditch the flight, expressing his preference for Delta and private jets as he exited.
“Im a celebrity. I’m telling you, this is going to be repercussions. It’s going be repercussions to this because I’m going to get off the plane. I’m going to get off the plane. I’m not going to let y’all disrespect me like that. I’m not going to let y’all choose me out of all the people on the plane and disrespect me. So I’m going to get off the plane.”
After deplaning, Juvenile shared a video of him scrolling through what appeared to be his flight history while sitting in a car.
“I think I know a thing or two about first class,” he stated. “F**k American Airlines, all the money I done spent with you bi**hes. They gon try and put me in coach. Motherfu**er, I aint never flew coach. F**k yall. I feel played.”
Additionally, in his caption, he wrote: “I feel played @americanair yall gonna bump me to coach after I’m already in my seat?? Dont worry Fort Worth Im boarding another plane right now on a better airline THE SHOW MUST GO ON.”
At this time, American Airlines has not responded to Juvenile’s claims, and it’s unclear which airline he re-booked a flight with. However, we do know he made it to Fort Worth to perform at Tannahill’s Tavern and Music Hall, given all the footage he reposted to his Instagram Stories.
Juveline is not the first celebrity to have employee-related confrontationswith American Airlines in recent years. In January 2023, American Airlines crew members called the police on Odell Beckham Jr. and insisted on his removal from the flight under suspicions he was “going in and out of consciousness.” Turns out the NFL player was just really “tired.”
Later that same month, Sha’Carri Richardson also had a confrontation with an American Airlines flight crew.
