So, I used Al Gore’s Amazing Internet to gather some facts.
American airlines transported 146,550,000 passengers in 2015. Blacks make us 13% of US population. Since I highly doubt American Airlines sells their tickets based on any color but green, we have to assume that 13% of their passengers are black. That would be 19,051,500 passengers. How many of them faced actual discrimination?
I’d hazard that the number would be awful close to zero. Airlines operate on a relatively tight budget averaging 6.18% profit margin over the past five years. In 2015, their profit in dollars was about $7,000,000,000. The average price of a flight is $509.15. Multiply that by 19 million and American Airlines would have lost over $2,000,000,000. That’s 2 billion.
C’mon NAACP, I figured that out in five minutes. Do you really think American Airlines is stupid enough to chase away 2 billion dollar in profit?
So if the NAACP gets its wish, AA will soon be known as the carrier that has no black people at the departure gates or on flights.....