British Airways illegal action?LEDSTOI23Apr2007
I read the day's foreign news about Sheikh Hasina offloaded at Bangladesh Authorities request by British Airways.
is British Airways an airline or a branch of Scotland yard or interpol?
She had as a citizen of Bangladesh a right to go back home if she chose, irrespective of the directive of the Military government.
It was the duty of British Airways to take her back to her home country if she held a valid ticket.
British Airways has this apple shining servile attitude
towards governments world over.
This is not the first time that their counter agents have acted as immigration and police authorities, denying boarding to valid ticket/passport/visa holding passengers.
In transit, transatlantic passengers at boarding points are offloaded because they do not have British visas etc.
Later, after the passengers have been inconvenienced immensely, they offer lame excuses that it should not have happened.
This is a most despicable behaviour by an airline and a country too.
This reminds me of the pie dogs walking under a bullock cart in hot tropical sun in India.
Britain come out of Bush's tail.
is British Airways an airline or a branch of Scotland yard or interpol?
She had as a citizen of Bangladesh a right to go back home if she chose, irrespective of the directive of the Military government.
It was the duty of British Airways to take her back to her home country if she held a valid ticket.
British Airways has this apple shining servile attitude
towards governments world over.
This is not the first time that their counter agents have acted as immigration and police authorities, denying boarding to valid ticket/passport/visa holding passengers.
In transit, transatlantic passengers at boarding points are offloaded because they do not have British visas etc.
Later, after the passengers have been inconvenienced immensely, they offer lame excuses that it should not have happened.
This is a most despicable behaviour by an airline and a country too.
This reminds me of the pie dogs walking under a bullock cart in hot tropical sun in India.
Britain come out of Bush's tail.
posted by m b nataraj | 9:31 PM
2 Comments:
I think it was not politics but more a commercial business orented decision on part of BA.
The BD authorities by the way through an intelligence flash notified earlier that any airline bringing in Sheikh Hasina will not be allowed to enter BD airspace, which would have meant the flight to be diverted to either Delhi or Mumbai. The dislocation of passengers would have meant a lot of money lost ~~ for one passenger I think it was too much of a risk.
Mac
Would the British Airways have honored an illegal notification preventing carriage of a legal citizen of UK from another country back home?
My guess is they would have ignored it.
She is not a criminal but a rightful first citizen of that country. It would amount to refusing Margaret Thatcher a seat back home from USA.
Have you experienced being offloaded by BA desk clerks on flimsy and arbitrary grounds, and left isolated in an alien land?
How would you deal with an airline that behaves like this?
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