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Richard BransonReally sorry to hear about an alleged incident on flight VS250. We do not tolerate abuse and @virginatlantic are investigating.
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Will tell everyone never fly with Virgin, if #vs250 racial discrimination issue is not properly handled. Disgusting
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@VirginAtlantic Why there are racial discrimination by your crew to a Chinese girl in your VS250 flight on 01-03-16
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Chinese netizens bombard Virgin Atlantic and Richard Branson’s Facebook page over racist incident
The Facebook accounts of Virgin Atlantic and Richard Branson have been inundated with thousands of comments left by Chinese netizens venting their anger at the alleged treatment of a female co-patriot who flew with the airline earlier this month.
In a letter addressed to the Chinese civil aviation authority which was posted on Weibo, the woman claims that a large white man approached her while she was looking for her headphones shortly after boarding flight VS250 from London to Shanghai on March 1 and yelled: “You fucking Chinese pig!!! Get the fuck out of here!”
As the head of the cabin crew came to intervene, she claims that the flight attendant threatened to remove her from the plane despite being the victim of an unprovoked racial assault and was unable to get to sleep for the rest of the flight for fear of being shouted at again.
At time of publication her post has garnered almost 13,000 likes and been shared over 36,000 times. Her story has also been picked up by several other popular Weibo accounts (like this one which saw it gather 60,000 shares) and has set Chinese social media ablaze.
http://shanghaiist.com/2016/03/19/chinese_netizens_bombard_virgin_atlantic_facebook.php
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In 24 hours, Virgin VS250 incident got 9.5 million views on Weibo. What now? @richardbranson @VirginAtlantic
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#VS250 #RacismStopsWithMe @VirginAtlantic when your employees bully a young student with a mad racist. You lose.
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20 March 2016
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Virgin Atlantic with Jesse Hwang.
We’re delighted to announce on #AccessDay that we’ve joined the Whizz-Kidz Accessible Travel Alliance
We were extremely concerned to hear about this flight, however we can assure you a thorough investigation is now underway. We will continue to talk to our customer directly.
Rob
Robert.
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發生在VS250的事情無關乘客糾紛，而是空乘的處理方式。如果以為發一條道歉的推特，而不追究相關責任，不給予相關人員承接，沒關係，你們會看到我們的態度。
What happened in the flight VS250 is not about the conflict between two passengers. It’s about how your crew handle the conflict, ignoring the fact, not protecting her from the mental disorder man (not changing the man’s seat with plenty of seats available while your crew promised), and worse threatening the girl. Don’t think an insincere twit will get you through this. We are expecting official apology and punishment or at least official warning for flight attendant who conducted those inappropriate reaction towards the girl. If you this is how you handle this incident, well, you will our reaction.
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weehingthong 