They're the last western airline that hires and fires flight attendants based on looks.
But you have to get past the gate first...
Posted on 03/31/2018 8:08:33 AM PDT by NorseViking
A Russian airline told five Asian-American passengers stranded in Moscow that they would be deported to India despite the fact that they were U.S. citizens, according to a racial discrimination complaint filed by the group's lawyers.
The passengers were travelling from Delhi to JFK International Airport on January 7 but their connecting flight was cancelled during a stopover in the Russian capital due to adverse weather conditions in New York—where heavy snow had grounded planes.
An Aeroflot employee at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport told the passengers, who are all of south Asian descent, that they would have to voluntarily board a later flight back to Delhi or be forcibly deported to India by officials, the Independent reported.
The airline told the group that there was no possibility of arranging alternative travel arrangements to New York, despite the fact that white American passengers who had been on the same flight from Delhi were alleged to have been offered tickets for other connections.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...
I hope there are better ways to go to/come from India than flying Aeroflot. But I guess they won’t get shot down by Putin, just by shoddy maintenance and craftsmanship.
Alleged.
Unless there’s proof - I believe the airline acted legally in returning them to their origin point.
Someone gets to a port of entry without proper paperwork, they are generally returned to the point of departure.
Snicker. Snicker.
Ah, I understand now. Two of the passenger names:
Sabiha Islam, Bakiul Islam.
Agreed
OMG! Someone supposedly said a mean thing to some Americans overseas!
and are they going to a court in Russia over this, because they would have no chance?
One of the problems with diversity is that we now have to defend the rights of dual citizens overseas.
On three or four occasions that I’ve seen people in international situations....once at the mid-way point and they missed the flight, and the visa problems erupted....yep, they got sent back to the original destination.
Another destination with issues is Australia. If you were traveling through to New Zealand, and had no Aussie visa, and the plane broke for 24 hours....you might have issues.
That headline is way out of whack. Sending them back to India makes a lot more sense.
I’m seeing “U.S. Citizens” and no other description of citizenship in the article, which implies without saying outright only that they were holding U.S. Passports. I’d need to see something else to side with Russia here.
I don’t think it’s racism if you’re _deported_ back to the airport from which you entered the deporting country’s airspace. If relations between the US and Russia were on a normalized footing, I’m sure they’d be passed on to New York or wherever when the weather cleared.
Doing the deporting that the American government won’t do. And yet we consider Russia an enemy...
You fly a two-bit airline to get cheap fares, and you get two-bit treatment.
Unless you are flying that to-bit airline because you think their security protocols are lax, what is your complaint? You got what you paid for.
> which implies without saying outright
> Newsweek
When a far-left, Deep State propaganda rag implies something without saying it outright, that’s a red flag that the implication is completely false.
Agreed. There’s definitely a massive, deliberate effort by the Left to demonize Russia and Putin to distract from their crimes.
Lol...knock yourself out Kimosabe.
They're the last western airline that hires and fires flight attendants based on looks.
But you have to get past the gate first...
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