Passengers On JetBlue Flight To Orlando Comfort Grandmother Of Pulse Victim

The airline made one woman's trip to Orlando a little less heartbreaking this week.
From: NewNowNext

Days after JetBlue announced it would offer family members and partners of the Pulse nightclub victims free round-trip flights to Orlando, one grandmother found comfort in a beautiful gesture from the airline’s staff.

CNN reports the grandmother of 20-year-old Luis Omar Ocasio-Capo took the company up on its offer and boarded a JetBlue flight to Orlando just three days after the tragedy occurred.

Because Omar’s grandmother was flying alone, JetBlue crew member Kelly Davis Karas reportedly “decided that the woman…could not leave the plane without knowing the world was with her,” so she passed a piece of paper around the plane so other passengers could share their thoughts with her:

“As Karas pushed the beverage cart down the plane’s aisle, she whispered to passengers about the paper. Halfway down the aisle, another crew member on board said more paper was needed. Instead of signing their names and moving on, passengers were writing paragraphs—long notes of compassion, grief and strength.”

“When we gathered them together to present them to her, we didn’t have just a sheet of paper covered in names, which is what I had envisioned. Instead, we had page after page after page after page of long messages offering condolences, peace, love and support. There were even a couple of cash donations, and more than a few tears,” Karas wrote on Facebook.

In her post, Karas said every single person on board stopped to offer their condolences with the woman as they deplaned.

“Some just said they were sorry, some touched her hand, some hugged her, some cried with her,” Karas wrote. “But every single person stopped to speak to her, and not a single person was impatient at the slower deplaning process.”