A woman who says she was threatened with being kicked off a US Delta Air Lines flight because she was not wearing a bra demanded a meeting with the company’s top boss on Thursday over what she says is a discriminatory policy. Lisa Archbold said she had on baggy jeans and a loose white T-shirt – with no bra – and claimed she was temporarily escorted off a flight by a female gate agent who demanded she cover up, even though her breasts were not visible. “It felt like a scarlet letter was being attached to me,” Archbold, 38, told reporters in Los Angeles about the January incident. “I felt it was a spectacle aimed at punishing me for not being a woman in the way she thought I should be a woman as she scolded me outside of the plane.” Archbold, a DJ who was flying from Salt Lake City in conservative Utah to the famously liberal San Francisco, claims the Delta agent said her attire was “revealing” and “offensive” and that airline policy was not to allow passengers dressed that way to travel. But, the agent said, if she put a jacket over her T-shirt, she would be allowed to continue her journey. Lawyer Gloria Allred said she had written to Delta on behalf of Archbold demanding a meeting with the company’s president to discuss the discriminatory policy.<br/>
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Kenya Airways now seeks to raise as much as $1.5b in fresh capital in a restructuring process authorities say will revive the carrier and plug a drain on state resources. KQ — as the airline is also known — has in the past relied on the National Treasury to repay loans and for operational costs. It didn’t receive direct government support in the past year, according to CEO Allan Kilavuka. Two years ago, the company estimated restructuring would cost $1b. “If the government could, they would already have given that funding because they believe in the strategic importance of the airline,” he said of the needed injection. “They will not be doing that because of the stretched fiscal position. We are looking for an airline that will complement us. We have no specific preferences in terms of origin, but we are talking to a wide range of them.” The carrier expects to pick a strategic investor this year, Kilavuka said after reporting the first operating profit in six years and narrowing the annual loss by 41%. <br/>