| American and European airlines are bilking African passenger | |
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| Topic Started: May 3 2012, 04:00 PM (275 Views) | |
| Jacques | May 3 2012, 04:00 PM Post #1 |
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American And European Airlines Are Bilking African Passengers by Jacques Sotero Agboton There are no reasons for airlines to charge African passengers 4 to 5 times higher airfares than passengers of Europe, Asia and the Middle-East for the same duration of flights. It is apparent that the prohibitive airfares are to limit African passengers from crossing frontiers where they can explore personally environments so far denied them by under immigration laws. Also, beneath the veneer of the language of public relation used by these airlines which has fitted in very well with the sordid hypocrisy no one should wonder now that free circulation of persons, free trade and globalisation are but meaningless statements shown to be false not in some but in all respects. DELTA AIRLINES, NORTH AMERICAN AIRWAYS, AIR FRANCE, IBERIA, LUFTANSA, SN BRUSSEL AIRLINES, TAP of Portugal and BRITISH AIRWAYS are charging African passengers for cross-Atlantic flights between 1200 to 2200 US dollars for economy passengers while these fares would have been First Class between North America and Europe. Fares between North America and Europe can be as low as 200 US dollars. It will be spurious for anyone to talk about market forces since as many as 30 cities in Africa and to name a few: Dakar, Banjul, Freetown, Monrovia, Accra, Lagos, Abuja, Douala, Bamako, Libreville, Addis Ababa, Kampala, Nairobi, Mombassa, Harare, Luanda, Maputo, Johannesburg serve as gateways to as much as 200 million potential customers. That is, only if they were not Africans. It seems that more than 10 years later, the legacies of Apartheid have yet to vanish since the notorious South African Airlines, carrier of these renegade racists who are still important shareholders; SAA cannot adjust its fares in spite of having a CEO who is Black and Black managers posted in but symbolic positions. Illogically, the fare New York to Dakar is the same as the fare New York to Johannesburg. You will be amused of the reasons Ghost SAA experts give in the computation these fares. Alas, some combatants of the liberation struggle in the hierarchy have forgotten the sacrifices in lives of entire generations so as to be cosy with their oppressors for crumbs of a pay check, a bonus and sometimes bribes. That is not to say, the hand that gives is not as corrupt as the hand that takes. But, the betrayal is painful, and costly. Instead of whining or complaining, it is time for Africans on the continent as well as in the Diaspora to begin targeted boycotts, airline by airline, until their fares are reasonably lowered. For once, let there be a generation of men and women who will not allow that more than 500 years of brutal exploitation and inhumane slavery continues in Africa. |
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| Zechariah | May 3 2012, 10:52 PM Post #2 |
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This has always been the case, the same applies to phone rates and others. Khadaffi changed the phone situation and was working on banking and other issues. He paid with his life. |
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| LaJarvis | May 3 2012, 10:59 PM Post #3 |
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I have a friend from Nigeria and he say it cost him about 2000 dollars to fly back home to Nigeria, but he said that if he wanted to fly from America to Europe it would only cost him about 600 dollars. White people are something else. Edited by LaJarvis, May 3 2012, 11:07 PM.
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| n.W.o. | May 4 2012, 07:43 AM Post #4 |
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You make little sense. Basically it seems you're telling us that Blacks in Africa should boycott airlines to lower prices so they can get to areas where the White people not only control but don't want them there anyway. Does that sound like a good idea? That's like me walking into a damn White Supremacist training camp, tying myself to a tree, and telling them I'm not moving until they do. See how long that lasts you. |
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