When it comes to flying to China, will.i.am just couldn’t get it started.
The pompous Black Eyed Peas rapper was set to fly to Asia earlier this week on United Airlines, but he ignored the New York’s John F Kennedy Airport’s procedure to arrive at least an hour before check-in. When Mr. i.am, arrived just 45 minutes before his 14-hour flight was set to take off, United had already given his seat away.
His black-eyed pleas fell on deaf ears, so he turned to twitter to piss and moan. He even cited an incident last May, when United booted him from first class after they suspected his membership was fake.
Here are his tweets. But fear not — it looks like he caught a later flight.
Make sure when you fly to china via @united you get to the airport 1day before because they'll give your seats away pic.twitter.com/2xpLEeXlvx
— will.i.am (@iamwill) October 7, 2014
I'm flying to china and @united just gave my seats away…#wtf
— will.i.am (@iamwill) October 7, 2014
I fly @BA @quantas @koreanAIR @singaporeAIR & they wait for premium passengers to arrive…they don't give away your seat like @united
— will.i.am (@iamwill) October 7, 2014
Plane leave at 1:15 I got to the airport at 12:30…@united is the worse…I should have learned from the last @united experience
— will.i.am (@iamwill) October 7, 2014