Frisking Kalam is outrageous
Updated On: 23 July, 2009 12:25 PM IST | | Khalid A-H Ansari
No words can be too strong to condemn the outrageous behaviour of Continental Airlines towards our former president A P J Abdul Kalam at New Delhi's Indira Gandhi airport on April 21.
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No words can be too strong to condemn the outrageous behaviour of Continental Airlines towards our former president A P J Abdul Kalam at New Delhi's Indira Gandhi airport on April 21.
Patently driven by commercial exigency, the airline's apology has come after initial insouciant in-your-face, do-what-you-like muscle-flexing.
Instead of being unqualified, it is unconvincing and half-baked, and obviously seeks refuge behind international securityu00a0 procedures.
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The belated expression of regret is clearly motivated by the fact that the American airline, now in dire financial straits world-wide, simply cannot afford suspension of its flights on lucrative Indian skies.
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