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Originally Posted by Acujer
Unbelievable! Outrageous! Too bad that airline company woosed out and couldn't just tell them its 2008 and they should get a grip.
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Because, believe it or not, it is not commercially advisable to steam roller over the beliefs of people in a foreign nation.
The airline has to make money, if its actions cause a loss of sales for themselves and other companies they face financial ruin.
Remember, a lot of the world is not as free and open as the west and in Africa they have a long long (read longer than the history of the US and the UK combined) tradition of belief in bad spirits and bad karma.
Why they did not just swap planes with that of another route is not that clear, I understand the plane that was done up as ed force one, was the only one available, but they could easily have re-routed another aircraft and let ed force one fly to a more understanding destination.