A black woman accused Delta Air Lines of discrimination after a flight attendant allegedly asked her to move to the back of a plane to make room for two white women.
Camille Henderson said she was sitting near the window of row 15 during a Feb. 3 flight from Atlanta to San Francisco when women sitting in the aisle and middle seats next to her said they had first-class tickets. ABC 7 reported.
“They felt they had first-class tickets, but they couldn’t get the tickets,” Henderson told the news agency, adding that the women had continued to complain for more than an hour.
Henderson recorded part of the exchange between the women and the flight attendant.
“Unfortunately, my first class seats are taken,” a woman was heard saying, according to a recording received from ABC 7.
“What are they?” another person is heard to say.
“They are busy,” the woman replied.
Henderson told the station that the flight attendants had then decided to give the women more space at her expense.
“Are you flying alone?” one hears one ask Henderson, who replies that it is her.
“There’s a seat in the back of lane 34. It’s a seat next to the aisle,” said the obvious employee.
Henderson, who said the crew did not ask the women to move, reluctantly agreed to go to the back row, according to the publication.
“I don’t want to turn it into a race, but instead of asking the two white women sitting next to me (to move) in an attempt to shelter them, they actually made me move,” she told ABC 7.
“I just don’t know why I had to move, because that was the place I paid for, that was my designated place,” she added. “It simply came to our notice then. It’s as if the whole flight is watching you and asking what’s going on. “
Henderson said she was not happy with what Delta’s customer service representative told her, whom she finally contacted by phone.
“How were you humiliated to be asked to go somewhere else?” One can hear one asking in a recording she provided to the store, suggesting that there was no inconvenience as she was moved elsewhere. in economics.
“You’re basically saying there’s nothing you can do?” she told the representative.
“No, not in the circumstances I’m showing, ma’am,” the man was heard to reply.
A spokesman for the airline told ABC7: “We are looking into this situation to better understand what happened.
“Delta has no tolerance for discrimination in any form and these allegations run counter to our deep values of respecting and respecting the diversity of our customers,” he added.
Henderson vowed never to fly Delta again.
“As a black woman, I was displaced to accommodate two white women comfortably. That doesn’t make any sense to me, “she told the paper.