The Afrikaans Language Board has slammed Ryanair’s policy to determine whether South Africans are travelling on fraudulent passports.
He added that the airline has no authority to test travellers before they can fly and that its policy had divided South Africans further.
, saying it had noticed a significant increase in passengers attempting to travel on fraudulent South African passports. “Our handling agents may request passengers travelling on a South African passport, and who are flagged during procedural security profiling, to complete a simple questionnaire, as an additional safety assessment to confirm whether they are correctly documented before travel,” Ryanair said.
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