California woman forced to move for white Delta passengers
A California woman was going home on a Delta flight to the Bay Area after visiting family in Atlanta when she was asked to move to a seat at the back of the plane to satisfy two white passengers.
The white passengers claimed to have bought a first-class tickets for the flight, but couldn’t produce the tickets to flight attendants, but Camille Henderson got on the flight with a window seat in Row 15 but would leave the aircraft from Row 34.
“I just want them to acknowledge that they made me feel powerless and they can’t do that to customers moving forward,” she said in an interview with ABC 17 news.
The incident started on a Feb. 3 flight, when two white women sitting in a row next to Henderson complaining that they had the wrong seats. The woman seemingly felt entitled to first-class even although there were no more first-class seats available. Henderson started recording the exchange, where the white woman began saying their demands. Then the Delta flight attendants offered a solution that would end with Henderson being moved to the last row of the plane.
In the audio Henderson captured someone is heard asking her, “Are you flying by yourself?” to which she replied that she was.
“There’s a seat back there in aisle 34. It’s an aisle seat,” another person said before the recording stops.
Embarrassed and fearful of retaliation, Henderson went along with the seat change.
After no help from a Delta Airlines customer service representative following getting off the flight, Henderson reached out the news station. After reaching out to the news, Delta Airlines spokesperson make the following statement:
“We are looking into this situation to better understand what happened. Delta has no tolerance for discrimination in any form and these allegations are contrary to our deep values of respecting and honoring the diversity of our customers.”
Henderson says she will “Never. Never again” fly Delta Airlines.