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A Frontier Airlines passenger flying from Philadelphia to St. Louis via Orlando showed up at the gate but she had no seat assignment, and the flight was overbooked. Three gate agents announced they were oversold by 10 and – despite offers of vouchers up to $800 – didn’t get any volunteers.
He paid full price for business class on BA194 from Houston to London — but says the crew treated him like he didn’t belong there ‘because he was upgraded’ (while he thinks it’s because he’s the only one who was black).
American Airlines passengers shared that a flight attendant named Shannon followed them off their aircraft and outside to the curb at Washington’s National airport “with intention to stalk, intimidate, harass and cause great emotional distress to a black couple” after she’d threatened to put the man “on the ‘no-fly list’ after he wanted to finish his water when she came to collect it for landing.
An Air France passenger flying from Paris to Washington Dulles switched seats to a new coach middle because her seat back entertainment screen wasn’t working. She’s black, and the passenger next to her was uncomfortable with her taking the seat beside him. Air France made her move because he was uncomfortable.
After a United Airlines flight from Cancun to Los Angeles, a passenger hurled racist insults at an Indian American family while enroute to the terminal from a bus gate. She also insulted Taufiq about… Indian food?
Two women flying Delta from Los Angeles to San Francisco had a meltdown on Monday after missing their plane. They arrived at the LAX gate, only to find a gate agent closing the door.
One yells, “He just slammed the door on my sister’s arm. This is racism!” And her sister joins in, “this is racism!”
A United Airlines passenger sitting in first class – he and his family were all upgraded – snapped a photo of a woman in the cabin texting racial epithets about him. (He and his family are black.)
The flight was rom Charleston, South Carolina to Denver. Boarding was delayed, and he says the woman was rude to him from the start. She winds up as the passenger in front of them in the first class cabin.
Musician David Ryan Harris flew American from Atlanta to Los Angeles on last Friday, September 15th, and he was met on arrival by four police officers and an airline employee.
The founder of the pioneering miles and points blog Million Mile Secrets, now owned by The Points Guy parent Red Ventures, speaks his mind. He was removed from the aircraft after speaking up when he “witnessed a racist flight attendant kick off two black passengers” from an American Airlines flight. The airline called the police on Daraius and removed him from the aircraft. Six officers responded to the scene.
A woman decided she wanted to make her opponent in the middle seat just as uncomfortable as he’d made her. The man had been sending racist texts, and she not only saw him doing it, she caught his text stream on video.
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