Discrimination allegation: Mother, baby nearly kicked off Flair Airlines flight
CTV
A mother with an infant says she faced discrimination on a Flair Airlines flight when all she wanted to do was sit in the seat she paid for and was assigned.
A mother with an infant says she faced discrimination on a Flair Airlines flight when all she wanted to do was sit in the seat she paid for and was assigned.
The cabin confrontation was caught on video by Busayo Alle, who recorded it on her phone.
Alle, her 12-week-old baby, and her mother-in-law boarded Flair Airlines flight F8804 in Vancouver one day last week. Assigned to seat 2A, the nursing mother was surprised to find another passenger in her seat.
Alle, a Black woman who recently moved to Canada from Nigeria, asked the white woman sitting in her seat if she would please move. Alle says the passenger said “no.”
In the recorded video you can hear Alle say to a flight attendant, “Do you see the problem here?”
In a statement, the airline told CTV National News "staff did ask the passenger in 2A to move to her assigned seat, but she refused multiple times. Unfortunately, this caused the situation to escalate."
Alle tells CTV National News, “The airline staff could have undone the mistake if they had forced the passenger to stand up. Instead they kind of allowed it to happen.”
