{"id":324204,"date":"2020-01-27T12:52:10","date_gmt":"2020-01-27T07:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=324204"},"modified":"2020-01-27T12:52:10","modified_gmt":"2020-01-27T07:22:10","slug":"us-fines-delta-50000-for-ordering-three-muslim-passengers-to-get-off-plane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/us-fines-delta-50000-for-ordering-three-muslim-passengers-to-get-off-plane\/","title":{"rendered":"US fines Delta $50,000 for ordering three Muslim passengers to get off plane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Delta Air Lines is being fined $50,000 for ordering three Muslim passengers off planes even after the airline&#8217;s own security officials cleared them to travel.<\/p>\n<p>Delta denied that it discriminated against the passengers in two separate incidents but agreed it could have handled the situations differently, according to a consent order released Friday by the US Transportation Department.<\/p>\n<p>The department alleged that Delta violated anti-bias laws by removing the passengers, and ordered the airline to provide cultural-sensitivity training to pilots, flight attendants and customer-service agents involved in the incidents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Delta Air Lines is being fined $50,000 for ordering three Muslim passengers off planes even after the airline&#8217;s own security officials cleared them to travel. Delta denied that it discriminated against the passengers in two separate incidents but agreed it could have handled the situations differently, according to a consent order released Friday by the US Transportation Department. The department alleged that Delta violated anti-bias laws by removing the passengers, and ordered the airline to provide cultural-sensitivity training to pilots, flight attendants and customer-service agents involved in the incidents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[188,139,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-324204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}