Air Koryo still flies them to China, there's even some tourism to fly on those old Soviet liners.
You'd have to triple dog dare me to board Air Koryo though...
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.
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That is an ignorant comment by you. Do you know anything about Aeroflot? Try reading up on it.
Both Delta and Boeing would take issue with your diatribe. So would anyone else who has flown Aeroflot.
The Tsarnaevs were also “US Citizens”.
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Not a single stick figure in the bunch!
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“Following the incident the passengers—Marc Fernandes, Shahana Islam, Sabiha Islam, Bakiul Islam, and Agrawal—notified law firm Lewis Baach and civil rights organization Muslim Advocates who together filed an official complaint to the U.S. Department of Transportation.”
nuff said
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Bingo!
No IT support for you Putin.
I found out later that the cabins on these planes were spartan so they could be quickly converted to military use.
However, I did like the food. Breakfast was hard-boiled eggs with caviar.
From that you have wrote it was like fifty to sixty years ago. Times have changed. More than once.
I haven’t kept up recently, but they used to be the nicest - and safest - airline in Russia.
The Ilyushins and Tupolevs are gone.
They’re Airbus and Boeing now although they have some Sukhoi commuter jets for short routes.
Jet fuel costs too much to keep those old Soviet airliners around.
Safety rankings of airlines here:
http://www.jacdec.de/airline-safety-ranking-2017/
Aeroflot is Number 37 on the list. Between United at 31 and American at 45. Based on 2016 data for the 60 largest airlines.
Wow. You’re an old fart! To get on the flight back then... you were in government service?
“” “” The Ilyushins and Tupolevs are gone.”” “”
In fact I miss both. Tu-154 was really fast comparing to modern airliners. A flight which took 4+ hours is now 6 hours with ‘green’ Boeing and Airbus. Il-86 was also as fast and super smooth to fly although due to a Soviet way of luggage handling it was doomed in the era of terrorism. (In 86 the luggage wasn’t checked and processed the way you got used to, you simply brought it to airfield and left in a compartment on a lower deck akin to a tour bus.)
Air Koryo still flies them to China, there's even some tourism to fly on those old Soviet liners.
You'd have to triple dog dare me to board Air Koryo though...
If they have Indian passports, and are not 100% US citizens only, then cheers to Russia for threatening to send him back to India. We don’t need them.
Dual citizens, should be getting zero help from the United States when they’re traveling overseas. They are citizens of their home countries, and should not be traveling with a US passport unless they are solely on American citizen. These people travel from India, their home country, it is the responsibility of India to help them. We should revoke their citizenship.
Nice. More people have died on Aeroflot than any other airline by far when you look at their history. Yeah, they were huge and the have a newer fleet, but I won’t fly with them.
Maybe I’m biased as an old Cold Warrior. I know a number of people who fly back and forth to India. None of them take Aeroflot, as far as I know. I’ll ask them why not. But those particular passengers would agree, I think, that they got two-treatment.
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