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Two members of British Airways cabin crew have been sacked after sharing an ‘obscene’ racist video on TikTok.
Holly Walton and Lauren Bray mocked Asian passengers by putting on a caricatured Chinese accent and making slant-eyed gestures.
Walton was recorded saying ‘give me wine’ in a mocking Chinese accent, before going on to pull her eyelids. The clip was filmed by Bray, who has since disabled her Instagram account.
The pair were said to have been between flights when they filmed the video at Trade Winds hotel in Antigua.
The clip was posted with the caption ‘2 weeks in a row with this d***head’.
Outraged colleagues said the pair were mocking a Chinese family on the BA2157 flight from London Gatwick who apparently didn’t speak much English.
Holly Walton was filmed making the racist gesture
One Asian BA colleague said she had been ‘left reeling’ by the clip, which had been viewed more than a million times.
Another said the women were ‘deliberately laughing’ at the family which ‘sends out the worst message possible’.
Walton was ordered to fly back from a round trip in Cancun, Mexico for a showdown meeting on Monday with BA bosses at the airline’s headquarters, reports The Sun, where the pair were sacked.
Bray was said to have left the meeting in tears.
A BA crew member said: ‘This recording is obscene. For anyone to have such racist thoughts, to then film them and share it with the world, is shocking and dumb in equal measure.
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‘This is hugely damaging for the airline and they deserved the axe.’
A spokesperson for British Airways said: ‘All forms of racism are completely unacceptable, and we take allegations of this nature very seriously.
‘These two individuals are no longer employed by us.’
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