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Latisha “Tisha” Rowe, a Houston family medicine doctor, was boarding an American Airlines flight to Miami on June 30 when flight attendants asked her and her son to step off the plane to talk. Rowe told CNN’s Brooke Baldwin on Thursday that a female flight attendant asked her several times…
Wale, a rapper and record producer, stated two members of an American Airlines crew told him “he didn’t belong in first class” and, allegedly, threatened to call the police. Wale explained that he was traveling from New York to Los Angeles, when his flight was canceled. Upon boarding a new…
A flight attendant was harassed and insulted for being a Black woman while working. During a flight from Philadelphia to Fort Myers, Fla., last week, 82-year-old George Francis Alexander approached the American Airlines flight attendant, who remains unnamed, from behind as she was serving drinks. He poked her in the…
By Kaitlyn D’Onofrio Theresa Purcell was ready for a normal flight to San Diego but this isn’t what she got. Purcell uses a wheelchair because she suffers from a neurological disorder called Charcot-Marie-Tooth’s disease. So when she was ready to board the plane, she was stunned to learn she wouldn’t…
More ad-agency foolishness: Here’s American Airlines’ new commercial, featuring its new logo. The (only) woman is a waitress, the (only) Asian people are kitchen workers, the Latino kid is in a poor neighborhood, the Black guy is a football player (inexplicably standing on the field and daydreaming with his helmet…
American Airlines Employees Humiliate Family of Boy With Down Syndrome A teenager with Down syndrome is singled out as a flight risk for smiling and playing with a baseball cap. Watch the action on video. Has a group of American Airlines employees at New Jersey’s Newark Liberty International Airport identified…