Family Kicked Off JetBlue Flight Because Of Mom's Birthday Cake


Family travel can be stressful enough as is, but when a dessert causes a scuffle between passengers and the air crew, it becomes next-level frustrating. A New Jersey family of four experienced this firsthand after being removed from a JetBlue flight earlier this month over a miscommunication regarding a birthday cake.

The family boarded a flight in New York City's John F. Kennedy International Airport and were headed to Las Vegas to celebrate the mother's 40th birthday on May 3, Yahoo reports. They brought a cake on the flight, and said they received unclear instructions on where to store it. This led to a disagreement between the flight crew and the Burke family.

In a video taken by the father, Cameron Burke, and released to ABC 7, their young child can be seen crying, and the police officer called on board can be heard saying "I don't see any wrongdoing," and "no one's in any trouble."


Despite this assessment, the family was still removed from the flight and, oddly, immediately refunded. JetBlue places the blame on the family, saying they stored the cake in a compartment reserved for emergency equipment and were "agitated."

In a statement, the airline said this: "(The customer) refused multiple requests from the crew to remove the items... became agitated, cursed and yelled at the crew, and made false accusations about a crewmember's fitness to fly."

Burke denies raising his voice or cursing, and said fellow passengers were kind to his family, saying "they knew that this was a strange situation."

This incident comes on the heels of several other unfortunate, tense scenarios between passengers and flight crew, including the now infamous United Airlines fiasco. Even weirder, JetBlue is all about the desserts, having recently announced plans to offer ice cream. Apparently to JetBlue ice cream > birthday cake.

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