Ending his two-day standoff with Aeromexico, Sikh-American actor Waris Ahluwalia has returned home on board Mexico’s flag carrier after he was barred by it from boarding a flight as he refused to remove his turban.
Ahluwalia, 41, landed in New York yesterday, after being allowed to board a new Aeromexico flight without removing his turban for a check.
“I was asked to rub it with my hand, then present my hand for swabbing, which I did. That had been the past security practice,” the actor, model and designer was quoted as saying by the New York Times.
Before takeoff from Mexico City, he posted a photograph online of himself inside an aircraft with his arms around the shoulders of what appeared to be two Aeromexico pilots.
“He told us that the check was smooth,” said Harsimran Kaur, the legal director for the Sikh Coalition, a civil-rights group that worked to resolve the impasse while Ahluwalia spent two days at the airport.
Yesterday, Aeromexico apologised to Ahluwalia, saying it “recognises and is proud of the diversity of its passengers”.
11/02/16 Tribune
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Ahluwalia, 41, landed in New York yesterday, after being allowed to board a new Aeromexico flight without removing his turban for a check.
“I was asked to rub it with my hand, then present my hand for swabbing, which I did. That had been the past security practice,” the actor, model and designer was quoted as saying by the New York Times.
Before takeoff from Mexico City, he posted a photograph online of himself inside an aircraft with his arms around the shoulders of what appeared to be two Aeromexico pilots.
“He told us that the check was smooth,” said Harsimran Kaur, the legal director for the Sikh Coalition, a civil-rights group that worked to resolve the impasse while Ahluwalia spent two days at the airport.
Yesterday, Aeromexico apologised to Ahluwalia, saying it “recognises and is proud of the diversity of its passengers”.
11/02/16 Tribune
