Outrage at racist rant on Ryanair
Airline let bigot fly on
RYANAIR have sparked outrage after apparently failing to remove a passenger who launched a racist tirade against the woman next to him.
The man was filmed calling her an “ugly black b ****** ”, and shouting, “Don’t talk to me in a foreign language, you stupid ugly cow.”
The footage was recorded by David Lawrence on Friday on a Ryanair flight from Barcelona to Stansted.
It shows the man shouting at the woman to move seats while her daughter tells him her mother is disabled.
He replies: “I don’t care whether she’s f ****** disabled or not – if I tell her to get out, she gets out.”
The man then calls her “an ugly f ****** c***” and BY TESS DE LA MARE tells staff to move the woman to another seat, adding: “If you don’t go to another seat, I’ll push you to another seat.”
Cabin crew are heard to say: “Don’t be so rude, you have to calm down.”
The victim then asks to be moved so she can sit next to her daughter.
The daughter said the row began because her 77-year-old mother’s arthritis meant it took time to move so the man could reach his seat.
The footage sparked anger on social media. MSP Stuart McMillan posted: “This is really appalling @Ryanair.”
Ryanair yesterday said they had seen the footage and had reported the incident to Essex Police.
They added: “As this is now a police matter, we cannot comment further.”