19 Jewish women sue two airlines: They overthrew us on flights
The girls who visited Holocaust-related sites in Europe were forced to disembark from two different flights, of the Dutch airlines KLM and the American Delta, due to "inappropriate behavior".
They are now suing the companies for discrimination
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30/03/2022
Wednesday, 30 March 2022, 08:28 Updated: 09:08
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Toshinsky Theater, Amsterdam (Photo: Ziv Reinstein, Editing: Nir Chen)
A group of 19 ultra-Orthodox Jewish girls from the United States, who are part of a group of 54 girls in total, is suing the Dutch airlines KLM and Delta Delta Airlines.
The girls decided to sue the companies after they banned them from boarding their flights last summer.
The aviation website Aviation24 reports that although these are two different companies and separate ground and air crews, the group members claim that due to non-compliance with the aviation regulations, they were discriminated against and had to deal with anti-Semitism by employees of the two airlines.
According to the report, the girls, together with their rabbi, went on a trip to Europe with an emphasis on visiting Holocaust memorials and sites in Ukraine and Auschwitz, Poland.
On their way back to their pavilion in New York, on a KLM flight from Kiev to Amsterdam, some of the girls were reprimanded by the air crew while eating their kosher food outside of the regular meal times on the plane.
The girls noted that other passengers also ate snacks between meals, but were not told anything.
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The crew ordered everyone to get off the plane due to "inappropriate behavior".
Delta Airlines (Photo: ShutterStock)
"This is a last warning"
Among other things, they were told that "this is a last warning" and they were even threatened that they would be arrested for non-compliance with regulations.
The plaintiffs allege that all of this was done "only for the purpose of harassment on ethnic and religious grounds."
After the group arrived at the airport in Amsterdam for a stopover, a security guard from the KLM company approached the girls and forbade them to board the connecting flight to New York.
This ban was sweeping and also included the group girls who were not on the original flight.
Due to the ban imposed on them, the young women and their companions were forced to stay overnight at Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam, as well as find themselves an alternative flight that would return them to their pavilion.
After being able to book another flight, this time from Delta Airlines, one of the girls swapped seats with another passenger on the flight - prompting the air crew to order everyone to get off the plane due to what was called "inappropriate behavior."
The girls even noted that one of the security men mocked them, after they were taken off the plane.
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Some of the girls were reprimanded by the staff while eating their kosher food.
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Airlines: Refuse to respond
The group was offered a flight for a later date that day, but this involved the desecration of Shabbat.
So they had to spend the night in Antwerp, Belgium.
Eventually, they returned to the United States on a United Airlines flight.
They are now demanding compensation for the incident, as well as imposing penalties on both airlines for racial, ethnic and religious discrimination in general, and discrimination against Jews in particular.
Defendant airlines declined to comment.
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