Posted on 10/25/2017 2:42:04 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
The NAACP has warned African-American travelers to be careful when flying with American Airlines.
The group issued an advisory late Tuesday, saying it has noticed "a pattern of disturbing incidents reported by African-American passengers, specific to American Airlines."
It said the incidents "suggest a corporate culture of racial insensitivity and possible racial bias" and advised travelers to exercise caution. "Booking and boarding flights on American Airlines could subject them [to] disrespectful, discriminatory or unsafe conditions," the advisory said.
American Airlines spokeswoman Shannon Gilson said the company was "disappointed" to hear about the advisory and is "committed to providing a positive, safe travel experience for everyone."
"Our team members -- a diverse community of gate agents, pilots, and flight attendants -- are proud to serve customers of all backgrounds," she said.
In response to NAACP President Derrick Johnson's call for an audience with the airline's leadership, Gilson said representatives from the organization would be invited to the company's headquarters in Fort Worth, Texas.
"We are committed to having a meaningful dialogue about our airline and are ready to both listen and engage," she said.
The organization described four examples in particular -- including one in which it said an African-American woman and her infant child were removed from a flight from Atlanta to New York after she asked if their stroller could be retrieved from checked baggage before she left the plane.
The NAACP didn't provide the name of the woman or say when the events it described are alleged to have taken place. American Airlines didn't comment on the specific allegations.
Johnson said the NAACP's "growing list of incidents ... involves behavior that cannot be dismissed as normal or random."
In August, the organization issued a travel advisory for Missouri, citing several discriminatory incidents in the state as reasons for individual visitors to travel with "extreme caution."
It said at the time that the Missouri advisory was the first ever issued by the organization, at the state or national level.
Looks like I’ll be flying American from now on.
I have yet to figure out how the wife of a dead E5 can be disrespected by getting a condolence call from CIC.
Wasn’t there some white bimb doing the same thing to bush back 10 years ago?
Even having “American” as part of their corporate title would be deemed “insensitive” by some mentalities.
American Airlines, like every other corporate entity, has at some time or other done things that do not earn them a really high score on the public relations aspect, and certain rather vindictive and manipulative factions turn this lapse (or lapses) to their advantage. Overall, most of these corporate entities can recover, but a few are taken down in flames, which is considered a “victory” for the Social Justice Warriors.
American Airlines could profit from this, they could advertise “black free flights”, thereby eliminating a large source of loud, obnoxious passengers.
Yea. . .American Airlines “disturbing behavior” is they are late on their “contributions” to these shakedown artists.
Exactly. First class did not follow them onto the plane as a black privilege.
-PJ
BINGO! Jesse Jackson has his hand out again!
Typical African extortion ploy. The black klan continues to attack whites and Asians with no sense of shame. Fact is, Africans are more African than American.
Blacks in the rear of the plane, whites in front. No, wait a second, all the bathrooms are in the rear. Hmm....
NAACP boycott? AA could see an uptick in ticket sales to whites.
Southwest Airlines has been condemned by CAIR as the most anti-Muslim of all. Infidels are flocking to buy tickets.
Pattern emerging?
A long line of shakedown con artists that includes Jackson, Obama, Sharpton, Wright, Marion Barry, Coleman Young, Holder, Loretta Lynch, ............ The list is endless.
Blacks Lies Matter. The facts are irrelevant to the old media that will take this story nationally.
Makes me want to fly AA (American Airlines, not African American or Affirmative Action). LOL!
I wonder how much of this has to do with certain passengers not knowing how to act on a plane and thinking ‘they don’t have to do what you say?’
I don't believe it.
There's WAY more to the story.
Just part of the vast “white” wing conspiracy. After all, if America stands for nothing else, it stand for bigotry. /s(?) SMDH!
Snowballs are racis’ too cause they’re white.
Ahe “axed” Please don’t condescend by correcting the pronouncings of members of the community.
NAACP is upset because AA doesn’t allow race cards to be thrown around.
Wonder what reverends Al and Jessee will have to say about Derrick Johnson cutting in on the JustUs Bros. livelihood.
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