JOHANNESBURG – The South African authorities mentioned on Tuesday it was greatly surprised by Ryanair’s determination to drive UK-bound vacationers holding the nation’s passport to take a check in Afrikaans language to show nationality, calling the transfer a “backward profiling system”.
The Irish low-cost airline had from final week began forcing UK-bound vacationers with a South African passport to take a check in Afrikaans, a language spoken by simply 12% of the nation’s inhabitants and sometimes related to the apartheid and white minority rule.
Europe’s largest airline by passenger numbers, which doesn't function flights to and from South Africa, had cited that it was doing this to curb excessive prevalence of faux South African passports.
The Division of Residence Affairs in South Africa mentioned the native authorities had measures that it frequently shares with airways to curb any situations of faux paperwork.
“We're greatly surprised by the choice of this airline as a result of the Division frequently communicates with all airways to replace them on tips on how to validate South African passports, together with the feel and appear,” the division mentioned.
All airways have entry to the ‘Superior Passenger Processing’ system which allows them to display screen vacationers earlier than they depart and the federal government additionally runs a 24-hour service which airways can use in the event that they wish to authenticate South African passports, it mentioned.
“It's not clear to which extent the airline has used these providers earlier than resorting to this backward profiling system.”
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