A French woman was left stunned this week when she was barred from boarding a Swiss airlines flight to New York from Geneva airport after being told she was blacklisted. The reason, she says, is the name on her passport, Alic Aïda, which when pronounced (wrongly) can sound like Al Qaeda.
The woman was all set for a holiday in New York with her husband and their two children on Wednesday but was stopped as she was about to board the plane at the Swiss airport.
According to the woman whose first name is Aïda, second name Alic, she was told by a Swiss International Air Lines official that they had received notice from American border authorities that she was barred from entering the United States.
“At first I thought it was a joke, then I realized our trip was not going to happen,” she told the regional French newspaper Dauphine Libéré.
“To be on a blacklist like a terrorist, you become paranoid,” said Alic, who is from the Savoie region of France. Full story...
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The woman was all set for a holiday in New York with her husband and their two children on Wednesday but was stopped as she was about to board the plane at the Swiss airport.
According to the woman whose first name is Aïda, second name Alic, she was told by a Swiss International Air Lines official that they had received notice from American border authorities that she was barred from entering the United States.
“At first I thought it was a joke, then I realized our trip was not going to happen,” she told the regional French newspaper Dauphine Libéré.
“To be on a blacklist like a terrorist, you become paranoid,” said Alic, who is from the Savoie region of France. Full story...
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