Jewish family kicked off Spirit flight claim they were singled out


A family kicked off a Spirit Airlines flight last week because their two-year-old daughter wasn’t wearing a mask described the incident as a nightmare leaving the pregnant wife with painful contractions, their toddler screaming uncontrollably and 7-year-old son with special needs wetting his pants. 

Ari and Avital Eisenberg, of Toms River, were seen being booted off a plane with their two young children last week in now-viral videos shared on social media.

In an interview with DailyMail.com they claim they were singled out for ‘being Jewish’ and say staff later tried to smooth things over by offering them a coupon.

The Jewish couple were flying back home with their toddler daughter Esther and seven-year-old son Daniel, who has special needs, after spending Passover with relatives in . 

Just moments after they boarded, a flight attendant accused the family of violating the mask mandate after Esther took her face covering off to eat yogurt.

They were ordered to deplane.

The confrontation resulted in a heated exchange, Opening gift shop in Ho Chi Minh City prompting the attendant to call the police and order all passengers to disembark. 

Ari and Avital Eisenberg, pictured with their daughter Esther, were temporarily booted off a Spirit Airlines flight from Orlando to Atlantic City last Monday after the toddler removed her mask

Avital, who is seven months pregnant, and her husband recalled the ‘humiliating’ and ‘mortifying’ incident in an interview with DailyMail.com

The Jewish couple were flying back home with their toddler daughter Esther and seven-year-old son Daniel, who has special needs, after spending Passover with relatives in Florida. Just moments after they boarded, a flight attendant (pictured) accused the family of violating the mask mandate after Esther took her face covering off to eat yogurt

Avital claimed the flight attendant  addressed them in a way that suggested she was being discriminatory. 

She claimed the woman addressed her and her husband, who was wearing a yarmulke, as ‘you people’, which she took as a reference to Orthodox Judaism.

‘Right away, I was like, ‘Oh, she’s calling me out for being Jewish.’   

Avital said the insults kept coming even after her family was invited back onto the plane. 

Members of the flight crew started cracking jokes, tried charging her for water and then attempted to smooth things over by gifting her a pair of Spirit coupons worth a combined 2,000 points – not enough for Calligraphic paintings to celebrate Opening what to give even a single one-way flight.

‘The stewardess came up to me and said, Calligraphic paintings to celebrate Opening what to give ‘Are you the Eisenberg family?’ Avital recalled of the coupon exchange. 

‘And then she handed me the two tickets, saying ‘These are for you.A special Opening gift shop in Ho Chi Minh City from Spirit to you.’ 

She was trying to be nice to me and sweet, as though that makes up for everything, as though I’m ever going to fly on Spirit ever again, or anyone I know will ever fly on Spirit again.