British Airways cabin crew sacked over racist video mocking Asian passengers where one made slant-eyed gesture and put on Chinese accent to demand ‘Give me wine’
Two British Airways cabin crew have been fired for making an ‘obscene’ racist video in which they mocked Asian passengers by making slanted eyes and putting on a Chinese accent.
Holly Walton and Lauren Bray have both been fired from the airline after the clip appeared on TikTok.
In it, Mrs. Walton is seen wearing a blue dress with red-tinted glasses on her head and saying in a Chinese accent, “Give me wine.”
She then appears to gesture with slanting eyes as a bottle of Antigua’s national beer, Wadadli, sits on the table in front of her.
The video was reportedly filmed with her colleague Ms Bray, who has since disabled her Instagram account.
Holly Walton appears to make a side-eye gesture as she mocks Asian passengers by putting on a Chinese accent
She shot the video at the luxury Trade Winds hotel in Antigua with colleague Lauren Bray when the pair were said to be between flights
A caption at the bottom of the clip reads: “Two more weeks with this motherfucker.”
The pair were cabin crew on the BA2157 flight from Gatwick and are said to have been between flights when they shot the video at the luxury Trade Winds hotel in Antigua.
Outraged colleagues said they mocked a Chinese family on the busy flight who spoke little English.
An Asian-born employee said she was “shaken” by the clip, which was shared widely on TikTok and viewed more than a million times.
Another said the women were “deliberately laughing” at the family, which “sends the worst possible message.”
Ms Walton was ordered to fly back from a return flight in Cancun, Mexico for Monday’s showdown with BA bosses at the airline’s headquarters, The Sun reported, where the pair were fired.
Ms Bray is said to have left the meeting in tears.
A BA crew member told it The sun: ‘This recording is obscene. For someone to have such racist thoughts and then film them and share them with the world is as shocking as it is stupid.
“This is extremely damaging to the airline and they deserved the ax.”
A spokesperson for the airline said: ‘All forms of racism are completely unacceptable, and we take allegations of this nature very seriously.
“These two people are no longer employed by us.”