A California woman is seeking an official apology from United Airlines for discrimination after she was re-seated by the airline due to two Pakistani Muslims refusing to share a row with her because she is a woman.
47 year old Mary Campos was called to the counter before boarding her flight, being told that her seat was reassigned because the two men who would have been sitting with her claimed they couldn’t sit next to a woman for religious reasons.
“I thought I lived in a culture where women were equal to men,” Mary Campos told CBS Los Angeles. “We can’t discriminate against half the population for a belief from another nation.”
She wrote a letter to the CEO of United, part of it saying: “Any belief that prevents individuals from interacting with females should not travel on commercial aircraft.”
Campos said her intention is not to sue United, but she wants the airline to apologize to the female flight crew and the female passengers, and to change their policies. She said if the doesn’t get that, she’ll do whatever she has to do to protect women’s rights.