It doesn't matter what color your skin is, what your name is, or what your religion is. Air Canada will still treat you like shit.
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Until last year I'd never even heard of Air Canada, and now every time anybody mentions them all I hear is how terrible they are.
As a Canadian, I'd just like to say Air Canada makes BA look like a luxury airline.
I remember when British Airways used to actually be posh. If you were flying with BA you'd made it.
Well despite how far it's fallen, it's still up on Air Canada. Their business model is running flights as a cover for taking as much government funding as they can get.
When I was still living in Canada and my now wife was here in the UK, we discovered that booking with Air Canada was $100-$300 cheaper in the UK than in Canada.
I have a friend named Fidel Castro. To fly from Canada to Costa Rica, his flight cannot have a connecting in the US. Is costly.
Apparently that name is not that uncommon for South Americans born shortly after the Cuban Revolution. First name that is. He just unlucky to also be a Castro. No relation.
You'd think that once someone has been dead for nearly seven years, they'd be less of a priority. And anyone not actually dead would be highly unlikely to be traveling under their own name.
They absolutely know he is not Fidel Castro but rules be the rules. I think now you can get exceptions but believe you need to do prior to travel and is a pain in the ass.
Off topic, my brother in law and his wife were in Cuba the week he died. All the bars shut down.
The title is a bit clickbaity. He wasn’t stopped from boarding, he had to go through additional security checks. He claims he was told he had to go through the checks because his name was Mohammad… although that’s just him saying that.
I live in UK and I’d say around 50% of the flights I’ve taken to/from US I’ve been pulled aside for extra checks. Many times both on the way out and way back for a 100% check rate on that single trip.
If they did actually say it was due to his name being Mohammad then yeah that’s really bad, but this sounds like they’re making something of nothing. And at no point was he stopped from boarding.
It was completely unacceptable for a ~~member of this house~~ human being to be treated in this way.
In absolutely no context does the name your parents gave you correlate to whether or not you're a terrorist.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
An MP was stopped from boarding a flight to Canada with other members of parliament “because his name was Mohammad”, the Commons heard on Monday.
Mohammad Yasin, Labour’s MP for Bedford, was due to fly to Canada with other MPs from the Commons levelling up, housing and communities committee when he was delayed for questioning “for a considerable period” at airports in both countries last week.
Clive Betts, the chair of the committee, said the incident was unacceptable because of its “racist and Islamophobic nature”, and that he would write to the Canadian high commissioner in the UK.
Yasin then underwent similar questioning from officials on his return trip to the UK, MPs were told.
On return at Toronto airport on the way back, he was again challenged and got on his flight with the assistance of my consul general, who was very helpful.”
The deputy speaker Roger Gale replied: “I am sure that the whole house will share the dismay at the treatment of the member for Bedford.
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