{"id":20629,"date":"2013-04-15T15:11:38","date_gmt":"2013-04-15T19:11:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=20629"},"modified":"2013-04-15T15:11:46","modified_gmt":"2013-04-15T19:11:46","slug":"black-passengers-sue-u-s-airways-for-discrimination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=20629","title":{"rendered":"Black Passengers Sue U. S. Airways For Discrimination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>McCraig Warren<\/strong> and <strong>Miles Warren<\/strong> are suing U. S. Airways for asking them to change out of their hoodies, jeans and baseball caps into slacks and a button-up shirt before boarding a first-class fight.<\/p>\n<p>In a discrimination lawsuit filed Wednesday, the <strong>Warrens<\/strong> claim that an employee informed them of the dress-code when they tried to claim first-class tickets at the counter. Sharing their fears with fellow passenger <strong>Michael Heffernan <\/strong>that they might miss their flight, they eventually boarded the plane to discover <strong>Heffernan<\/strong> and a friend sitting in first class wearing the same casual attire they had been wearing before being asked to change.<\/p>\n<p><strong>McCraig<\/strong> and <strong>Miles Warren<\/strong> are Black; <strong>Michael<\/strong> <strong>Heffernan<\/strong> is White.<\/p>\n<p>A ticket counter employee repeatedly told the <strong>Warrens<\/strong>, who are both Black, that their jeans, hooded sweatshirts and baseball caps violated an alleged first-class dress code. As the complaint states:<\/p>\n<p>Doe employee informed plaintiffs that it was U. S. Airways policy that everyone in first class is required to wear slacks, button up shirts and no baseball caps. Doe employee demanded plaintiffs to change from jeans into slacks, a button-up shirt and told plaintiffs to remove their baseball caps.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>Warrens<\/strong> reportedly headed to the restroom where <strong>Miles<\/strong> conferred to a white passenger, <strong>Michael Heffernan,<\/strong> that he was worried he\u2019d miss his flight because of his apparent dress-code violation. So, imagine <strong>Miles\u2019<\/strong> surprise when he saw<strong> Heffernan<\/strong> and a friend sitting in first-class, wearing almost the exact same outfits that barred the <strong>Warrens<\/strong> from sitting in their seats\u2014jeans and hoodies<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>McCraig Warren and Miles Warren are suing U. S. Airways for asking them to change out of their hoodies, jeans and baseball caps into slacks and a button-up shirt before boarding a first-class fight. In a discrimination lawsuit filed Wednesday, the Warrens claim that an employee informed them of the dress-code when they tried to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20629\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}