Jessica Chastain Would Like to Speak to JetBlue’s Manager
Sometimes, the stars are not just like us. Such is the case with Jessica Chastain, who thought it would be wise to relate her beef with JetBlue on social media. You may be thinking, Well, sometimes you have to tweet at an airline to get their attention. Were her bags lost? Her flight delayed indefinitely? Was she served poison instead of tomato juice? No! Her TV didn’t work.
In a now-deleted post on X, Chastain snarkily tagged JetBlue in her grievance. “Thank you @JetBlue for your $15.00 credit. My flight was $1,500 and the credit is 1/100 of the money I paid you,” Chastain wrote. “Strange that I paid that for your flight entertainment system that didn’t work for the duration of my 6hr flight, but I guess it was worth it for this $15 credit.”
After JetBlue’s official account replied, asking her to DM them, she shared a screenshot of her conversation with an online customer-service representative. The rep told her that the $15 credit was repayment for the TV outage, and the Oscar winner doubled down.
“I understand but I spent $1500 on the flight and so did my husband,” she told the rep. “There should be some flight credit or something since I have a TrueBlue account and have been a loyal customer.” The actress was informed that the $15 flight credit she received was, in fact, the flight credit she was asking for and there was nothing else they could do.
A cross-country flight without watching Crazy Rich Asians isn’t something I would wish on any prestige actor. That being said, Chastain — who is currently asking $7.45 million for her New York apartment — should know better than to gripe about this in a public forum. Not because all famous people should keep their financial grousing to themselves but because she specifically was flamed for making out-of-touch rich-lady complaints a couple of months ago.
In August, Chastain, in another since-deleted post, asked her followers for recommendations for food-delivery services that weren’t Uber Eats. She had ordered from the app twice in one day (which I imagine cost about $10,000 once fees were included), and both times resulted in bad experiences. “They got me twice today. Lunch took an hour and [a] half after choosing from the 30min order window. Then again at dinner I ordered for a 30min delivery, waited over an hour, and then was notified that it was canceled,” she wrote, “I literally CAN’T with this app anymore. So what’s good folks?”
I think it’s time for Ms. Jessica Chastain to stop posting. It’s not doing her any favors. She should just go off and be fabulously wealthy in peace and maybe also consider becoming a Delta loyalist.