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Ryanair Afrikaans test: Airline stands by South African language quiz
- danielfoster 4y agoThis is completely unacceptable. It’s also not acceptable that airlines are responsible for verifying documentation. I’ve dealt with more than a few airline agents over the years who were given incorrect information by their employer and tried to tell me I was ineligible to fly.
- icedistilled 4y ago>Only around 13% of South Africans speak Afrikaans as a first language, This is worse than if Ryanair validated USA passports by giving a quiz solely in Spanish, with 13.5% at home speakers. How is ryanair so bad? (note, giving it solely in english would also be bad because it would senselessly ignore well over 13.5% of residents)
- danielfoster 4y agoIt’s even worse than that if you consider how Afrikaans was forced onto Africans by an oppressive regime. The language was allegedly created to be difficult for non Dutch or English speakers to learn, which in turn promoted white supremacy in business and government.
- tumetab1 4y agoMore context: This is not being applied to those traveling from South Africa but to anyone traveling with a South African passport from anywhere to UK. https://news.sky.com/story/ryanair-accused-of-discrimination-for-forcing-afrikaans-test-on-south-africans-12628601 https://news.sky.com/story/ryanair-accused-of-discrimination... This smells like they wanted to exclude anyone traveling with a South African passport so they invented this hoop... Also weird that UK thinks the airline is responsible for ID validation while ID validation is usually done by border patrol/police of the source country... All bonkers.