BA pilot loses anti-Scottish racism claim

A BRITISH Airways captain who claimed he was victimised by fellow pilots for being Scottish has lost his tribunal claim.

Douglas Maughan, 54, sued the airline after he was allegedly called a 'Jock' and told to go back to Scotland.

Capt. Maughan, from Edinburgh, claimed that after he exposed his colleagues' casual racism in a newspaper article, pilot trainer Capt. Adrian South retaliated by marking him down in a regular flying assessment.

Yesterday, a Watford Employment Tribunal ruled that there was no connection between the article and the pilot's ranking.

Capt. South said that he judged his colleague's cockpit manner to be 'overwhelming', leading him to award Capt. Maughan a grade three on a five-level tier. Previous assessments had rated the pilot at level one.

Capt. Maughan, who has 29 years of flying experience, alleged that his colleagues had used a number of racist slurs.