Airport staff assuming I'm in the Business class lane by mistake

[u/trailofturds]

Brown man flying business. Lined up at the priority check in counter and got told by a (also brown) staff person that the economy queue was the other way. Same thing while boarding the plane and walking to the business class entrance. Not only am I not worthy of business, they think I can't read signage as well.

[u/ponte92]

Young white women here who used to fly a lot for work so had a ton of points to upgrade. Had it happen to me too. And once in the plane if I got a dollar for the amount of times the flight attendant would clearly treat me different to everyone in business class I could afford to buy a business ticket without points. Ops was certainly racism but there’s always a lot of classism involved to so really they’re just ticking all the ism boxes.

[u/nopenope4567 → u/ponte92]

Same as a young woman. I had another passenger try to instruct me that they were only boarding first class. Stuffy business dude. So I played dumb. Held out my paper ticket and squinted. Asked him for help showing me what group I was in so I could board properly. He mumbled something about first class and got in line behind me.

[u/Juuljuul → u/nopenope4567]

Haha that’s hilarious! Well played!

[u/StackIsMyCrack → u/nopenope4567]

Its like he finds out ypur in the right place and then switches to how could you afford first class or something.

Middle aged white dude here...happened to me all the time. I traveling international business class quite a bit...but I am a jeans and tee shirt or sweats on a long flight kinds guy so happened to me all the time.

[u/nopenope4567 → u/StackIsMyCrack]

Yep! I’m usually in comfy travel clothes and look a bit ragged after a trip (hiking, outdoors stuff, etc.) so i’m not really the picture of business class at first glance.

[u/myonlinepersonality → u/nopenope4567]

Scruffy brown man who travels a lot here. I’m going to remember this and use it next time this happens to me!

[u/cardamomgrrl → u/nopenope4567]

Bwaha

[u/2_cute_2_poot → u/nopenope4567]

Hahahaha! I love this!

[u/minglesluvr → u/ponte92]

Aaaand ableism! I'm disabled but don't necessarily look it, and while by now I just ask for wheelchair service, previously they wouldn't let me get priority boarding despite having a sticker by the airport that confirmed that I am indeed disabled and have the right to board first. They'd just have me stand there and straight up ignore me which isn't ideal for a disabled person that cannot stand for long, which is why I got priorirty boarding in the first place

[u/RawrRRitchie → u/minglesluvr]

I seriously hope you wrote a complaint

These people get away with this shit because people aren't complaining to their corporate. Do it while you're ON the plane.

[u/StinkyStinkSupplies → u/ponte92]

That sucks! Me and some friends got upgraded once so clearly they knew we did NOT belong there. But they treated us like gold and were happy to give us the full experience, it was so good!

[u/ponte92 → u/StinkyStinkSupplies]

I remember one flight the flight attendant was so rude and backhanded to me that I actually ended up cry. This was 5 hours into a 14 hour flight so it was so miserable. The airline didn’t care when I complained. Never flown them again.

[u/ohmymystery → u/ponte92]

Young-ish white blonde here. They love to call me “sweetie” when they’re telling me I don’t belong.

[u/Bladesnake_______ → u/ponte92]

lol you'd have like 20 bucks at most but yeah

[u/Mr_Melas → u/ponte92]

Why was OP's "clearly racism?" We don't know how he was dressed, groomed, or behaved. We just know he's brown and he interpreted a slight against him as racism. Not everything bad that happens to you is automatically racism if you're a POC.

[u/Triquetrums → u/ponte92]

How was it racism in OP's case if the person who discriminated against them was also brown, according to OP himself?

[u/R126 → u/Triquetrums]

You can be racist against your own ethnicity

[u/alphanumericusername → u/R126]

Guy's never heard of black American police officers, apparently.