ON MAY 11TH a Nigerian woman filed a lawsuit against United Airlines for removing her and her two children from a flight after a fellow passenger complained of her smell. Queen Obioma accuses the airline of singling her out “because of her black race and Nigerian citizenship”.
The incident took spot two years ago on a flight from Houston to San Francisco. This was the moment leg of Ms Obioma’s trip with her children from Nigeria to Canada,where the youngsters were scheduled to begin school. Ms Obioma’s commerce-lesson seat was occupied by a white man, according to the suit. She asked him to hotfoot but he refused, and she claims,and a flight attendant persuaded her to sit elsewhere. Shortly afterwards, she says, and the other passenger went to the cockpit—presumably to complain about her—and then blocked her as she tried to get from the toilet to her new seat. When she finally took her seat,she recounts, a crew member asked her to step...
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Source: economist.com