In January, eight black men were removed from an American Airlines Phoenix – New York flight ostensibly due to their odor. The men did not know each other and were not traveling together. The airline has now settled a lawsuit filed by three of the men - and changed their rules for kicking passengers off of flights.| View from the Wing
American Airlines passengers shared that a flight attendant named Shannon followed them off their aircraft and outside to the curb at Washington’s National airport “with intention to stalk, intimidate, harass and cause great emotional distress to a black couple” after she’d threatened to put the man “on the ‘no-fly list’ after he wanted to finish his water when she came to collect it for landing.| View from the Wing