Spirit Airlines employee caught on video yelling at passenger

An airline employee has been caught on film cursing at a passenger with the footage quickly going viral.

An airline employee has been caught on film cursing at a passenger with the footage quickly going viral.

In the clip, a staffer for Spirit Airlines, a budget carrier in the US, can be heard shouting at a female passenger at the check-in line at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport.

The airline worker is seen telling the woman to hand over her boarding pass before telling her “F*** you, too”.

“Show me your boarding pass. I want to see your boarding pass,” she says in the video, which was posted April 9 on TikTok and has garnered more than 8.2 million views.

The passenger opens up a document folder and shows it to the employee, who appears to jot down information from it.

“This Spirit employee is very offended because this lady said something to her,” the man shooting the video says. “I think she’s taking it a little too far. … I think it’s a little bit of an abuse.”

The two women walk shoulder to shoulder as the situation heats up before the Spirit staffer finally blurts out, “F**k you too.”

She then storms off as the crowd collectively gasps in astonishment.

A Spirit employee orders a passenger to show her boarding pass after a confrontation that led the staffer to yell, ‘F**k you, too’. Picture: TikTok/sightssoundsflavors

The TikTok user then trains his camera on the passenger and asks her what she told the employee that would cause her to hurl the F-word, but she doesn’t reply and also walks away.

“Things you see when you travel as much as I do. The passenger definitely started it, but the airline employee lost the moral high ground when she confronted the passenger for a second time,” he wrote.

“Initially she told her from the side that she had a filthy mouth and embarrassed the passenger in front of 5-10 people. The passenger walked away and just kind of took it,” the TikToker continued.

The passenger allegedly instigated the incident, which has gone viral because of the employee’s unfiltered reaction. Picture: TikTok/sightssoundsflavors

“The airline employee then came back and in a way wouldn’t let the passenger walk away. This is a very bad look for #spiritairlines but what do I know. I get passengers can be VERY rude but 99 per cent of the people who saw this weren’t privy to what the passenger may have initially said.

“I know I wasn’t till after the second encounter when the airline employee said the F-word followed by ‘too,’” he added.

Another user wrote, “I don’t know the situation, but when you’re working, you can never lose it like this, even though you want to.”

“Spirit employee is savage,” another said.

Another passenger, Lonnieka Dillard, was arrested after a bizarre incident on a Spirit flight last month. Picture: TikTok/realkingjon

“My favourite part was the lady’s smirk after the employee said fu like she knew she was going to get her fired,” a third added.

The TikToker, whose account is called SightsSoundsFlavors, also posted a commentary on YouTube about the incident.

“This flight attendant, when she came the second time, her whole deal was … she wasn’t going anywhere,” he says. “And when the lady tried to leave, OK, she wouldn’t let her.

“She taking down her info, she’s got her info. But it wasn’t just about getting the info, it was about sort of a power trip because … see, she won’t let her move,” he says as he shows video of the confrontation.

“The whole thing is, she wasn’t to be the powerful one – she wants this lade to not be able to get away from her,” he continues.

“And she wants her to think the whole rest of the time that she’s in line waiting for TSA to check her boarding pass, waiting as she goes through security, and then the whole walk from the gate to the plane, she wants this lade to feel like maybe she’s not gonna be able to get on the plane,” the man adds.

The incident follows the viral meltdown of a Spirit passenger as she was escorted off a plane snapping her teeth and growling at fellow travellers.

Lonnieka Dillard was taken into custody March 23 by the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police over her strange behaviour on the California-bound flight, She was charged with violating airport rules.

The Post has reached out to Spirit Airlines for comment about the incident in Florida.

This article originally appeared on the New York Post and was reproduced with permission