Old 01-18-2021, 03:04 PM
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Originally Posted by rickair7777 View Post
Non-issue.

Businesses can chose not to serve anyone, as long as it's not BECAUSE they are a protected class. You can choose not to serve a protected class, it just has to be for some other reason.

The recourse is a civil suit, but that won't succeed unless there are legal grounds, and the pax would have to prove the airline banned them for being gay, or brown or something legally protected. The airline actually doesn't have to "prove" they had sufficient cause, they can chose not serve you for almost any reason they like.

And they have to do something about it, if they let pax get away with it it will just encourage more of the same and if the crews feel like the airlines don't have their back it's going to be diversion city at the first hint of trouble $$$$.
I’m with you on the legal standard. The problem is going to be that when people are thrown off and banned under the policy, folks are going to be humiliated and furious and they are going to want to go after Delta for what they perceive to be “harm”. So even if the suits get tossed, it will be after the airline has had to go through the headache of answering the suits and getting them dismissed. Then there is the PR aspect which carries its own soft costs to the airline. In any event, I’m sure the savvy and well paid attorneys for Delta will make sure the policy will be put together soundly enough to fend off as many lawsuits as possible.
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