A black woman has accused Delta Air Lines of discrimination after a flight attendant allegedly asked her to move to the back of a plane to make room for two white women.
Camille Henderson said she was sitting near row 15 window during a Feb. 3 flight from Atlanta to San Francisco when the women, who were sitting in the aisle and middle seats in the row next to her, said they had first-class tickets, ABC 7 reported.
“They felt like they were ticketed first-class seats, but they couldn’t provide the tickets,” Henderson told the news outlet, adding that the women continued the complaints for over an hour.
Henderson recorded part of the exchange between the women and a flight attendant.
“Unfortunately, my first-class seats are occupied,” one women is heard saying, according to a recording obtained by ABC 7.
“They are what?” another person is heard saying.
“They’re occupied,” the woman answered.
Henderson told the station that flight attendants then came up with a solution to give the women more space at her expense.
“Are you flying by yourself?” a person is heard asking Henderson, who replies that she is.
“There’s a seat back there in aisle 34. It’s an aisle seat,” the apparent attendant says.
Henderson, who said the crew did not ask the women to move, agreed reluctantly to go to the back row, according to the outlet.
“I don’t want to make it a race thing, but instead of asking the two white women that were seated next to me (to move), in an attempt to accommodate them, they basically made me have to move,” she told ABC…