According to a lawsuit filed by four New York–based Delta flight attendants, the airline is wildly anti-Semitic. The complainants, whose work experience ranges from 10 to 40 years, allege in the suit “a pattern of intentionally discriminating and retaliating against ethnically Jewish, Hebrew and/or Israeli employees and passengers,” pointing to a specific flight from NYC to Israel, as TMZ reports. They also allege that Delta fired a female flight attendant in March because she was Jewish; they say the airline tried to blame it on the fact she missed a flight, even though the flight attendant in question had received FMLA for a medical emergency.
The allegations don’t stop there. Another non-Jewish flight attendant says she was demoted and suspended without pay for sharing her Delta “Travel Companion” pass with her Jewish friend. Delta says the flight attendant was in violation of company policy because she did not know her travel companion. The flight attendant claims the man has been her friend for four decades.
A Delta spokesperson told TMZ the company condemns the allegations and plans on defending itself, saying, “As a global airline that brings people across the world together every day, Delta values diversity in all aspects of its business and has zero tolerance for discrimination.”
This isn’t the first time Delta has found itself hit with claims of anti-Semitism. Back in 2011, Delta added Saudi Arabian Airlines to its SkyTeam Alliance, which meant complying with the Saudi airline’s policy of barring Jewish people and Israeli passport holders from boarding flights to Saudi Arabia.
