{"id":301287,"date":"2018-08-09T09:59:06","date_gmt":"2018-08-09T09:59:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=301287"},"modified":"2018-08-09T09:59:06","modified_gmt":"2018-08-09T09:59:06","slug":"british-airways-deplanes-indian-family-over-crying-of-3-year-old-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/british-airways-deplanes-indian-family-over-crying-of-3-year-old-child\/","title":{"rendered":"British Airways deplanes Indian family over crying of 3-year old child"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-301288 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/British-airways-300x145.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"649\" height=\"314\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/British-airways-300x145.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/British-airways-768x370.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/British-airways-696x336.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/British-airways-871x420.jpg 871w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/British-airways.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 649px) 100vw, 649px\" \/>An Indian family has alleged a humiliation and racial behavior by British Airways when they were forced to deplane because their three-year-old child was crying onboard while they were traveling from London to Berlin on the flight (BA 8495) on July 23.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">AP Pathak is the Indian passenger who was deplaned along with his family and he is a joint secretary-level officer in the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways, wrote a letter to Union aviation minister Suresh Prabhu and foreign minister Sushma Swaraj alleging \u201chumiliation and racial discrimination\u201d by the European airline.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Pathak in his complaint to aviation minister Prabhu said, &#8220;A male crew member approached us and started shouting.. scolded my son to go to his seat&#8230;My son got terrified and started crying (inconsolably). (An) other Indian family sitting behind us offered the child some biscuits to console him. My wife again put the boy on his designated seat and fastened the seat belt even though he kept on crying&#8230;.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The letter further reads, &#8220;The aircraft then started taxiing on the runway. \u201c(The) same crew member came again and shouted at my son that \u2018you bloody keep quiet otherwise you will be thrown out of the window\u2019 and we would be offloaded. We were petrified.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cThe crew member made racist remarks and used words like \u2018bloody\u2019 about Indians\u2026. I request to have the matter investigated and take the strictest possible action,\u201d the letter says.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A British Airways stated: \u201cWe take such claims like this extremely seriously and do not tolerate discrimination of any kind. We have started a full investigation and are in direct contact with the customer.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Pathak has sought an apology and compensation for harassment.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Indian family has alleged a humiliation and racial behavior by British Airways when they were forced to deplane because their three-year-old child was crying onboard while they were traveling from London to Berlin on the flight (BA 8495) on July 23. AP Pathak is the Indian passenger who was deplaned along with his family [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":301288,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[53],"tags":[4083,4082,4081,3410],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301287"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301287"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":301289,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301287\/revisions\/301289"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/301288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}