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uggboy Aug 5, 2016 4:30 am
Two Muslim women who work for US government escorted off plane...
 
Two Muslim women who work for US government escorted off plane as they made staff ‘uncomfortable'

Two American Muslim women were asked to leave an American Airlines plane after one of them talked to another passenger about the lack of water and food and a flight attendant said they had made him feel “unsafe”.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/wo...-a7172081.html

cmd320 Aug 5, 2016 10:13 am
I'm curious which flight this was. If it was in fact delayed 5 hours on the ground in MIA with no option available to deplane, then AA should be receiving a hefty fine from the DOT.

cblaisd Aug 5, 2016 11:12 am
Let's send this to the TS/S forum

cblaisd
Moderator, Travel News

Loren Pechtel Aug 5, 2016 5:04 pm
Sounds like the FA didn't like a passenger complaining about the situation and abused their power.

GUWonder Aug 6, 2016 3:44 am
Originally Posted by Loren Pechtel (Post 27022013)
Sounds like the FA didn't like a passenger complaining about the situation and abused their power.
It seems like that to me, but I'm sure that the FA and pilot also checked out the name of the involved passengers and knew that the name of the "subversive" was "Muslim".

Perhaps the involved FA's internet habits may tell enough about the role of prejudice in the situation. Other than that, we still have the situation of a power-tripping cabin crew member that may lack proper passenger management skills.

Boggie Dog Aug 6, 2016 5:51 am
https://www.theguardian.com/books/20...syria-on-plane

Another report of a woman being detained while flying this time for reading a book.

chollie Aug 6, 2016 8:07 am
Originally Posted by Boggie Dog (Post 27023700)
https://www.theguardian.com/books/20...syria-on-plane

Another report of a woman being detained while flying this time for reading a book.
That one really gets me. The book was about Syria and there were allegedly lots of pictures of violence.

You would never see images of people getting killed or terrorist battles or war or other horrors on inflight entertainment, nor would anyone ever be watching a war movie on their personal device on a plane. Because everyone knows that you only look at things like that if you're planning on engaging in them yourself. :rolleyes:

GUWonder Aug 6, 2016 3:03 pm
And another one on a DL flight where the woman dared to mention the word for god in Arabic in a benign phrase and she got offloaded.

Carl Johnson Aug 11, 2016 10:13 am
Originally Posted by uggboy (Post 27018934)
Two Muslim women who work for US government escorted off plane as they made staff ‘uncomfortable'



http://www.independent.co.uk/news/wo...-a7172081.html
Well he was unsafe because of the lack of water and food on the plane. But I don't see how removing the women made things any better. Maybe he would be safer if he didn't work for AA.

FliesWay2Much Aug 11, 2016 3:29 pm
AA has lots of GSA-contracted "city pairs" for lots of official USG travel. Terminating for cause might get AA's attention...

Just checked... AA is the contract carrier between MIA and all three DC airports.


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