“If nobody else complained or noticed any “pungent” odor it is probably that the man was sensitive to something the woman ate.”
Or more likely, the others were suffering in silence, cowed by very idea of complaining about a woman who was foreign AND black. The guy who sat closest decided to pipe up.
And changing coffees? Easier just to change chicks.
A. I am not a chick.
B. You may be right but how would the other passengers know she was foreign? And bottom line the airline gets to decide who rides and who finds other means of transportation. So unless she can show that no other person of another race was ever made to give up a seat for reasons of personal hygiene she does not have a case.