Following an incident that took place at the beginning of the year and a consecutive lawsuit, American Airlines has put a number of employees on leave. On 5 January, on flight 832 from Phoenix Airport to New York JFK, eight black passengers (all the black men aboard) were removed from the plane before take-off. The men, who didn’t know each other, were picked out after a white flight attendant complained about their “offensive body odour”.
Since then, Alvin Jackson, Emmanuel Jean…















