(CNN) — Once your airplane’s flight crew has shut the cabin doors in preparation for departure, don’t open the door for a late-arriving boss.
Not even if that employer is “Birthday Sex” singer Jeremih, aka Jeremy Felton.
R&B artist Felton and musician Adam Woods arrived too late to the gate at Newark Liberty International Airport for U.S. Airways Flight 653 to Phoenix on Friday afternoon, an incident that was first reported at NJ.com.
The aircraft doors were closed.
Instead of getting booked on the next flight, Felton called his bouncer, Dontate Cunningham, who was already on the flight, to let Felton and Woods board.
“One of the members who had already properly proceeded through the now closed secondary jetway door opened the jetway door in an effort to unofficially allow his fellow members entrance onto the aircraft,” confirmed Port Authority of New York and New Jersey spokesman Joe Pentangelo, via email. The Port Authority operates the airport.
