An American man who was allegedly profiled as a possible human trafficker while traveling by plane with his teenage daughter and a friend received no real apology from Southwest airline after being humiliated upon arrival.
“We regret your disappointment”: this is the extent of the apology that American John Kerrigan, from Virginia Beach, received after being wrongly profiled as a potential human trafficker by Southwest Airlines employees, according to WAVY reported Thursday.
The incident reportedly occurred on October 21, when the father was traveling with his 15-year-old daughter and a 16-year-old friend on a flight from Denver, returning home from a trip to Las Vegas, according to the American media.
Except that the presence of the man with the two young girls would have been enough to raise eyebrows among Southwest Airlines employees, who would have rushed to report him to the police at Norfolk International Airport before landing.
During the flight, a flight attendant would also have approached the two teenagers to ask if they knew the man with whom they were traveling, when the latter would have gone to the bathroom, he would have told Fox 59.
Upon arrival at Norfolk International Airport, the crew allegedly asked passengers to remain seated, while three police officers boarded the plane to escort the man off the plane in front of all the passengers.
“I found it very offensive. I mean, I hadn’t done anything wrong,” the man reportedly lamented to the American media, even though he was questioned for only twenty minutes before being able to leave.
While he agreed with any effort to combat human trafficking, John Kerrigan said the situation should have been handled better, especially since he would not have received a proper apology. due form of the company.
After contacting a lawyer to sue Southwest, the latter allegedly advised him to simply accept a $1,500 travel credit offered as compensation for the incident.
However, this is not the first case of its kind: last year, a woman from California who was traveling with her daughter allegedly suffered the same treatment, and is now suing the same airline for an amount that has not not been specified.
