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White woman booted from first class seat in favor of she-boon politician
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Byker
Dec 25, 2017, 9:57:22 PM12/25/17
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Can we now make United Airlines the official airline of dumb dindu
politicos? Boycott United. Assuming that you don’t want a jig-ape to be
given your seat by an “African-American” flight attendant. Diversity is our
strength? NOT!
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United Airlines took my seat and gave it to a politician: woman
By Tamar Lapin
December 24, 2017
A teacher from Washington, D.C., accused United Airlines of booting her from
her first class seat in order to give it to a congresswoman, she wrote in an
account that the politician has since contested.
Jean-Marie Simon was at Bush International in Houston on her way home from a
trip to Guatemala last week, when she witnessed U.S. Rep Sheila Jackson Lee
(D-Texas) get ushered onto the plane before everyone else lined up, she
wrote on Facebook.
When it came time for her to board the Dec. 18 flight, Simon said the gate
attendant told her that her ticket was not in the system.
“A second United agent confirmed that I had no seat, not just the first
class seat I had purchased, but no seat, period. I didn’t even have a
reservation anymore,” she wrote.
When she was asked if she’d canceled her reservation, she said she hadn’t,
she just wanted to get home.
“I said I wanted my seat, that I had paid a lot of miles for that seat, and
that it was United’s responsibility to undo the seat assignment and return
it to me, the person who had paid for it,” she wrote.
The United attendant told her that united.com had changed her reservation
about an hour earlier and that another passenger had been upgraded to her
seat.
She said she was offered a $300 voucher or told that she could buy a seat on
a flight with another airline.
“United lied to me, repeatedly. They put Jackson Lee on the plane and then
tried to blame it… on everybody but the United employee who deliberately
erased my seat, my ticket, and my name from the system in order to
accommodate a member of Congress who repeatedly bullies his/her way into
favored status,” Simon said.
After being the last person to get on the plane, Simon said another Texas
congressman who sat next to her told her that Jackson Lee had swiped her
seat and that she “regularly does this.”
“Jackson Lee gives us all a bad name; it’s shameful,” he reportedly told
her.
She decided to walk to the front of the plane and snap a photo of the rep in
seat 1A.
Five minutes later, she said a flight attendant came over to ask if she was
“going to cause any problems,” and warned her that she’d be escorted off the
plane if she did, she wrote.
In a statement, Jackson Lee said she overheard Simon speaking with an
African American flight attendant and saw her snap the photo.
“Since this was not any fault of mine, the way the individual continued to
act appeared to be, upon reflection, because I was an African American
woman, seemingly an easy target along with the African American flight
attendant who was very, very nice,” Jackson Lee said to the Houston
Chronicle.
“This saddens me,” she continued. “Especially at this time of year given all
of the things we have to work on to help people. But in the spirit of this
season and out of the sincerity of my heart, if it is perceived that I had
anything to do with this, I am kind enough to simply say sorry.”
Simon said the congresswoman was accusing her of racism when she “had no
idea who was in my seat when I complained.”
The airline maintains that she canceled her own flight.
Simon said she wants a formal, written apology from United.
“It’s just impossible to suspend disbelief and swallow that story that I
canceled my flight,” Simon said.
https://nypost.com/2017/12/24/airline-kicked-me-from-first-class-so-politician-could-take-my-seat/
politicos? Boycott United. Assuming that you don’t want a jig-ape to be
given your seat by an “African-American” flight attendant. Diversity is our
strength? NOT!
--------------------------------------------------------------
United Airlines took my seat and gave it to a politician: woman
By Tamar Lapin
December 24, 2017
A teacher from Washington, D.C., accused United Airlines of booting her from
her first class seat in order to give it to a congresswoman, she wrote in an
account that the politician has since contested.
Jean-Marie Simon was at Bush International in Houston on her way home from a
trip to Guatemala last week, when she witnessed U.S. Rep Sheila Jackson Lee
(D-Texas) get ushered onto the plane before everyone else lined up, she
wrote on Facebook.
When it came time for her to board the Dec. 18 flight, Simon said the gate
attendant told her that her ticket was not in the system.
“A second United agent confirmed that I had no seat, not just the first
class seat I had purchased, but no seat, period. I didn’t even have a
reservation anymore,” she wrote.
When she was asked if she’d canceled her reservation, she said she hadn’t,
she just wanted to get home.
“I said I wanted my seat, that I had paid a lot of miles for that seat, and
that it was United’s responsibility to undo the seat assignment and return
it to me, the person who had paid for it,” she wrote.
The United attendant told her that united.com had changed her reservation
about an hour earlier and that another passenger had been upgraded to her
seat.
She said she was offered a $300 voucher or told that she could buy a seat on
a flight with another airline.
“United lied to me, repeatedly. They put Jackson Lee on the plane and then
tried to blame it… on everybody but the United employee who deliberately
erased my seat, my ticket, and my name from the system in order to
accommodate a member of Congress who repeatedly bullies his/her way into
favored status,” Simon said.
After being the last person to get on the plane, Simon said another Texas
congressman who sat next to her told her that Jackson Lee had swiped her
seat and that she “regularly does this.”
“Jackson Lee gives us all a bad name; it’s shameful,” he reportedly told
her.
She decided to walk to the front of the plane and snap a photo of the rep in
seat 1A.
Five minutes later, she said a flight attendant came over to ask if she was
“going to cause any problems,” and warned her that she’d be escorted off the
plane if she did, she wrote.
In a statement, Jackson Lee said she overheard Simon speaking with an
African American flight attendant and saw her snap the photo.
“Since this was not any fault of mine, the way the individual continued to
act appeared to be, upon reflection, because I was an African American
woman, seemingly an easy target along with the African American flight
attendant who was very, very nice,” Jackson Lee said to the Houston
Chronicle.
“This saddens me,” she continued. “Especially at this time of year given all
of the things we have to work on to help people. But in the spirit of this
season and out of the sincerity of my heart, if it is perceived that I had
anything to do with this, I am kind enough to simply say sorry.”
Simon said the congresswoman was accusing her of racism when she “had no
idea who was in my seat when I complained.”
The airline maintains that she canceled her own flight.
Simon said she wants a formal, written apology from United.
“It’s just impossible to suspend disbelief and swallow that story that I
canceled my flight,” Simon said.
https://nypost.com/2017/12/24/airline-kicked-me-from-first-class-so-politician-could-take-my-seat/
Byker
Dec 26, 2017, 4:55:55 PM12/26/17
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"Leroy N. Soetoro" wrote in message
news:XnsA85772CFA3...@0.0.0.1...
>
> http://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/366492-black-dem-lawmaker-says-airplane-incident-was-race-related
>
> Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) said she thinks the reaction of a
> passenger who accused United Airlines of giving away her first-class seat
> to the Democratic lawmaker was race-related.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pB09doZLBA
United needs to stop apologizing and stand up to ratchets, who neither give
nor accept apologies...
news:XnsA85772CFA3...@0.0.0.1...
>
> http://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/366492-black-dem-lawmaker-says-airplane-incident-was-race-related
>
> Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) said she thinks the reaction of a
> passenger who accused United Airlines of giving away her first-class seat
> to the Democratic lawmaker was race-related.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pB09doZLBA
United needs to stop apologizing and stand up to ratchets, who neither give
nor accept apologies...
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