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: Bodily Injury BlogAirline Settles with Passenger Who Claimed Harassment
By Edward Bills
JetBlue Airways Corp. and the Transportation Security Administration have agreed to pay $240,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by a man who claimed he was discriminated against because of his ethnicity and Arabic writing on his T-shirt. According to the lawsuit, TSA and JetBlue personnel refused to let him board a flight until he covered the text on the shirt and then forced him to sit at the back of the plane. Neither JetBlue nor the TSA admitted wrongdoing under the settlement.
Full post as published by Bodily Injury Blog on January 06, 2009 (boomark / email).
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