JERUSALEM (VINnews) — The chief executive of airline Ryanair has apologized after a flight attendant announced that the Israeli city of Tel Aviv was “in Palestine.”
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According to the BBC, Eddie Wilson, Ryanair CEO, told the Simon Wiesenthal Center that “it was an innocent mistake.”
The B’tsalmo- Human Rights in the Jewish Spirit organization is urging Ryanair to fire the employee who announced on the aeroplane’s PA system that Tel Aviv is part of “occupied Palestine.”
The letter, signed by B’tsalmo CEO Shai Glick, was sent to Ryanair, the Israeli Embassy in Dublin, the Irish Embassy in Israel, and Israel’s Foreign Minister, Transportation Minister, and Diaspora Affairs Minister.
It describes, “Passengers on a Ryanair flight from Italy to Tel Aviv (FR 3794 on June 10, 2023) were shocked after a flight attendant repeatedly described their final destination as ‘Occupied Palestine.'”
“‘All passengers are requested to return to their seats as the plane is about to land in Tel-Aviv in occupied Palestine,’ the flight attendant said, repeating the sentence several times in English and Italian.”
The letter continued, “Ryanair’s CEO reportedly apologized and said he was ‘100% satisfied that this was an innocent mistake with no political overtones or intent.'”
“We find the incident highly offensive and the lame excuse provided in the apology to be dishonest and insulting. This was clearly an intentional and highly offensive and malicious political statement by the flight attendant. The name of a country is not something that people make ‘innocent mistakes’ about, especially not in the context of the highly sensitive Israeli/Palestinian conflict.
“The attendant’s statement severely upset and humiliated your customers on that flight and around the world and may have even caused fear that the flight was hijacked by terrorists. Management’s insulting excuse has made it even worse,” the letter continued.
“At this point, many Israeli and Jewish passengers would feel uncomfortable to travel on Ryanair, since the abusive flight attendant is still employed by Ryanair and because the lame response from Ryanair’s management is likely to encourage other Ryanair staff to insult and humiliate Israeli customers in the future.”
“Ryanair management should release a new statement acknowledging the attendant’s malicious behavior.
“We urge Ryanair to dismiss that employee. If Ryanair fails to do so, many Israeli and Jewish customers will be hesitant to use Ryanair’s services in the future.”
An “innocent mistake”! I can’t believe he actually said that. Is he stupid enough to think that we would fall for that, or is he actually so stupid that he believes that?
BOYCOTT RYANAIR
WOW, YES, ‘INNOCENT’ MISTAKE/
THIS TAKES THE CAKE
Even the German airline, Lufthansa, which regularly flies to Israel, wouldn’t have tolerated such garbage.
imagine landing in Berlin and announcing welcome to Nazi Germany
What kind of lame name for an airline is this ?
Are all their employees this stupid ?
And yah. Innocent mistake. Behehehehhe hehehehhe. What does he think people are as stupid as him?
I’m not exactly a Zionist, but in the future, if there enough Israelis and/or other Jews in a similar situation they should start singing HaTikvah. Really LOUD.
TBH I’ve never heard of Ryanair until now.
Innocent mistake and not politically motivated? Where does the term “occupied Palestine” come from if not politics?
In our long history has there ever been a time when Jews felt slighted, the offender apologized & we said, “Thank you let’s move on”?
Of course not!
Our mo is:
Demand an apology.
Demand anyone near the incident be fired.
Demand a refund of the cost of the ticket.
Demand a voucher for a free flight.
Sue the airline for millions.
#whoweare
Is Du lin in Isreal what would happen if the pilot would say Dublin Isreal
I’m disgusted by what the person did and don’t believe it’s an innocent mistake. But isn’t demanding that he be fired cancel culture?
Fire the creature and a boycott
““This was clearly an intentional and highly offensive and malicious political statement by the flight attendant…The attendant’s statement severely upset and humiliated your customers on that flight and around the world and may have even caused fear that the flight was hijacked by terrorists…” the letter continued.”
The Zionists are delusional and childish idolaters – and they’re also thugs, as everyone knows, for threatening the airline over this and demanding the employee be fired.
The flight attendant made a political statement, which he obviously should not have done. Nobody would seriously think for even a second that the plane was being hijacked simply because he announced that they were landing in “occupied Palestine”.
Eileh elohecha, Yisrael…