{"id":170,"date":"2008-04-27T16:05:02","date_gmt":"2008-04-27T15:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/ijwp\/mt.php\/2008\/04\/27\/casual_racism_at_british_airways_exposed"},"modified":"2025-10-09T19:27:37","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T18:27:37","slug":"casual_racism_at_british_airways_exposed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/mt.php\/2008\/04\/27\/casual_racism_at_british_airways_exposed","title":{"rendered":"Casual racism at British Airways exposed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title = \"'A world of casual racism' exposed at BA - Home News, UK - The Independent\" href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/home-news\/a-world-of-casual-racism-exposed-at-ba-815842.html\">&#39;A world of casual racism&#39; exposed at BA &#8211; Home News, UK &#8211; The Independent<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This was the front-page feature in the Independent yesterday: a former senior pilot with British Airways revealed that casual racism among flight crew was the norm, particularly among older cabin crew, who expected others like them to be on the &#39;same side&#39; apparently without knowing them:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n&quot;There was the time when we set off for Los Angeles with a large party of Saudis on board, who had joined us at Heathrow direct from the VIP lounge,&quot; he added. &quot;In the cruise, my captain suddenly embarked on an extraordinary rant about &#39;rag-heads&#39;. He got the word out twice before I stopped him by explaining he was going to be short of a first officer for the return sector if he carried on.&quot;<br \/>\nMr Maughan, who lives in Dunblane, Perthshire, was on another flight when a fellow flight officer complained that there were too many Asians in Britain. &quot;The captain turned to me and said: &#39;I don&#39;t suppose there are many of them up your way.&#39; I replied: &#39;Well, there&#39;s my wife.&#39; After that, they had the decency to fall silent,&quot; he said.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He said that this sort of behaviour is as common at BA now as it was in the RAF 25 years ago, and that management had not done much about it.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/fisk\/robert-fisk-its-easy-to-be-snotty-with-an-airline-so-haughty-that-it-regards-its-own-customers-as-an-inconvenience-815844.html\">Robert Fisk<\/a> also has a dim view of the &quot;haughty&quot; company he thinks should be called Rendition Airlines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#39;A world of casual racism&#39; exposed at BA &#8211; Home News, UK &#8211; The Independent This was the front-page feature in the Independent yesterday: a former senior pilot with British Airways revealed that casual&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-racism"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p17bgV-2K","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41851,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions\/41851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}