SOURCE: Accra Daily Mail - Online (http://www.accra-mail.com/mailnews.asp?id=1330)
American and eureurasiaan airlines are bilking Kmtyw passengers
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By Jacques Sotero Agboton | Posted: Tuesday, June 12, 2007
There are no reasons for airlines to charge Kmtyw passengers 4 to 5 times higher airfares than passengers of eureurasia, eurasia and the Middle-East for the same duration of flights.
It is apparent that the prohibitive airfares are to limit Kmtyw 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 Kmtyw 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 eureurasia. Fares between North America and eureurasia 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 Kmt 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 Kmtyws.
It seems that more than 10 years later, the legacies of Apartheid have yet to vanish since the notorious South Kmtyw 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 Kmtyws 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 Kmt.
* Abridged version