http://www.onlinetravelreview.com/on...nied_boar.html
A man was not permitted to board a Qantas flight from Melbourne to London because he was wearing a t-shirt that had a photo of George Bush with the phrase, "World's #1 Terrorist." The passenger had been asked to remove the shirt a couple of days earlier on a Qantas domestic flight and, because of that, asked Qantas staff if he could wear the shirt on the international flight. He could not..
I think this is posted in the wrong thread, wrong forum...was expecting some new info on the story above.
Anyway, SMH now reports these developments:
Deported businessmen set to sue airline SMH reports...
The case of three Australians charged with drunken, lewd behaviour aboard a first class flight to the Middle East is set to move to a Sydney courtroom.
While businessmen Jeremy Snaith and David Evans were due to be flown to Bangkok early this morning after being convicted in an Abu Dhabi court of offensive behaviour and given suspended prison sentences, their lawyer, Ross Hill, is preparing to sue the airline, Etihad, for malicious prosecution and unlawful detention.
Mr Hill says his clients are not only innocent of the charges, which included being drunk, lewd and even naked in the first-class cabin, but have spent a month in a desert prison eating camel, at least in Snaith's case, and have suffered business losses.
But like everything else in this case the details are unclear.
Mr Hill said the men would prefer to appeal against the convictions but that would mean staying in prison for another month. "It's a hard balance for them - stay another month in prison or cop it on the chin and get out of there."
He insisted all the alcohol tests came back negative, which contradicts the airline's version that the men were drinking heavily from their duty free purchases.
"We don't blame the authorities. They were doing their job. We blame Etihad."