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标题：BA in row over 'slur' on Africans
作者：KUNBI JEGEDE
期刊名称：London Evening Standard
印刷版ISSN：2041-4404
出版年度：2001
卷号：Feb 28, 2001
出版社：Associated Newspaper Ltd.

BA in row over 'slur' on Africans

KUNBI JEGEDE

A FORMAL complaint has been lodged with the Commission for Racial Equality against British Airways after it blocked telephone credit card bookings for trips to parts of West Africa, writes Kunbi Jegede.

Anyone wishing to travel to Nigeria, Ivory Coast and Ghana is being forced to pay in person at a travel agent.

Lewisham Race Equality Council said the policy singled out West Africans as "corrupt, fraudulent and dishonest".

A spokeswoman for BA, however, said the step was taken on the advice of leading credit card companies due to fraud.

The airline claims that it is not discriminating against West Africans because the policy applies to all of its customers booking flights to that part of the world.