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Originally Posted by astmartins
you know what i don't like entertaining side swipes when there are important issues at hand...the Rosa Parks stuff was introspective not comparing like and like you should have figured that out
The behaviour of Nigerians is no way different to those of Jewish people and Indians thats the point i was trying to get across
Do you know how many people have mentioned what they suffered at the hands of BA and just let it slide?
And people have come forward maybe not on BNV but they have on NigerianVillageSquare you obviously didn't finish reading all the posts!!
I'm more interested in what we are doing regarding this and we moving forward you have made your point clear where you stand thats fine its called freedom of choice but let us who want redress press on...
The UK Citizen bit highlights the fact that it doesn't matter what your citizenship status is or what job you have at the end of the day first thing they reacted to was colour!!..i rest my case i'm only interested in constructive means of tackling this issues henceforth..and leave the he said she said to the judges
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I understand your point about the Jews and Indians but the point that I am trying to make is that THEY ARE NOT COMPLAINING the NIGERIANS ARE!
I have read all the posts and I really believe that if BA were really that bad they would not be the company they are today, after all not everyone suffers bad service and goes back again for more. BA have plenty of competition too yet they are still able to remain in business in spite of all this 'bad service'
This was posted on another board by a fellow Nigerian
One of the comments to the story on NVS- by ILN TOO
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Villagers,
Before we start playing the race card, I think it is good for us to just look introspectively at ourselves and ask ourselves what is wrong. What happened to Ayo was clearly unacceptable and I will advise him to seek redress through the appropriate legal channels. From his account, Ayo seemed to have addressed the situation in a calm, dignified and mature manner. And we must commend him for that.
But I can tell you that the behaviour of many Nigerians on international flights leaves a lot to be desired and it is very difficult not to conclude that we deserve the sort of treatment we get from foreign airlines. I am saying this because of my personal experience on a flight to Abuja.
I was on a BA flight to Abuja from Heathrow last December on my trip to Nigeria for the Christmas holidays. And there was a cacophonous din in the cabin after passengers have boarded the aircraft. It was an unedifying spectacle: quite a number of passengers had boarded the aircraft with oversized hand baggage that would not just fit into the luggage rack and it was one hell of a job for the cabin crew who were desperately trying to sort out the mess to ensure that we left on time. There were serious altercations with a lot of passengers shouting and yelling and kicking and screaming without the least concern for other passengers including yours truly whose basic right to a comfortable and peaceful flight was being infringed on. It was absolutely embarrassing as many grown up people were behaving like ill-mannered children. And the cabin crew were very helpless; you’ve just got to pity them, I just couldn’t figure out what they would be thinking. But I would not expect them to suppose, going by that embarrassing spectacle, that Nigeria is bursting with cultured and civil citizens. And the noise continued throughout the pre-flight safety briefing. There was an attempt by the cabin crew to suppress the noise but that proved hopelessly futile and they just had to get on with it despite the noise.
I regularly take the BA flights from Heathrow to Seattle Tacoma and also from Heathrow to Munich but I have never experienced anything like the rowdy behaviour of the unruly and uncouth Nigerian passengers to Abuja. As a Nigerian that was always quick to leap into the defence of Nigeria and Nigerians, I can tell you that I was absolutely disappointed at the behaviour of my compatriots. I was later told that on Lagos flights, the situation is even worse.
I can therefore empathise with the BA cabin crew when they treat us with disdain. I honestly believe it will be too much to expect to be treated respectfully and courteously when we don’t accord the same respect and courtesy to others.
Despite all that happened on that flight, I believe that the cabin crew were a lot more courteous in their dealings with passengers than what I experienced in domestic Nigerian flights. My experience was that our domestic cabin crew were uncultured, arrogant and full of nasty surprises for passengers. No one is defending the attitude of BA but with all due respect to patriotic villagers, Nigeria cannot manage an indigenous carrier, a feat achieved by the likes of Kenya and Ethiopia.
The problem is that all the 'other airlines' treat nigerians with the same level of disdain. fundamentally, it is something wrong with us and not the airlines!!!
ILN TOO – calling on all villagers to exercise some level of self introspection.
As I said what was your cousin's issue? Did he object to the fact that he had to travel with a Deportee or did he really think that the man was being manhandled?