HIGH DRAMA
‘All’ EasyJet passengers ‘thrown off flight to Ibiza’ after pregnant mum was kicked off for being ‘abusive’
EASYJET passengers were booted off their flight to Ibiza after a pregnant mum was kicked off for allegedly being abusive.
A "grumpy" stewardess allegedly "singled out" Siobhan Foster, husband James, and their disabled child, which saw them removed from the Belfast flight.
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Video footage posted on social media, filmed by one of Siobhan's outraged pals, showed nearly 200 passengers being forced to disembark.
The seven-months pregnant mum, from Newtonabbey, could be seen collecting hand luggage while struggling to carry her confused tot, after being kicked-off the August 19 flight.
Behind the camera, the friend shamed a blonde stewardess, and said: "We're being thrown off the plane today because of somebody thinking they're better than everyone else."
The easyJet employee responded: "Bye, bye bye", as the fuming family marched down the stairs.
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Siobhan was filmed in tears on the runway amid having her holiday plans dashed, as other raging passengers scrambled back to the airport.
Her friend told her: "B******s. Don't be crying, come on. As everyone else said on the plane, it's nothing to do with you. Don't be crying. easy f***ing Jet."
The family had been on their way to attend Siobhan's brother's wedding, having forked out extra for more leg room.
But, they were scathing after being slapped with a further £1,500 bill to fly out the next morning following the confrontation.
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'SLEEZY' JET
Taking to Facebook to vent her frustration, Siobhan branded the airline "sleezy jet" and vowed never to fly with them again.
She wrote: "This particular flight attendant had such a grumpy look on her face. James sat down with Florence and I asked her was there any more space in the overhead lockers, her reply was a sharp 'Clearly Not'.
"So, I asked could you help me find somewhere, her reply was 'You'll need to find somewhere yourself' even though there literally was nowhere."
Siobhan then claimed she asked for help again due to being heavily pregnant, to which the stewardess allegedly said: "You're being abusive and it's not my job to help you."
"Then another air hostess - an older lady - approached me to say 'Look this isn't our job to help' so I said any other airline I've flown with have been more than helpful with me as I'm pregnant etc," continued the fuming passenger.
"So of course, then she said I was abusive. Writing this I understand it would make you think well was I being abusive, but I honestly wasn't and the whole plane can vouch for me."
After eventually finding a place for her own bag, the EasyJet passenger was then allegedly confronted by two crew members who accused her of being "aggressive".
Siobhan added: "I decided to ignore her and she started raising her voice saying 'Look at me!' First of all, I'm not a child to be spoken to like that, and I was ignoring her as I was so upset at the way I was being treated.
"Then her and another approached us to say we were being thrown off the plane - we asked why as we literally hadn't done anything, once again she said were being aggressive.
"My brother and mum spoke to her asking exactly why we were being put off and again they couldn't answer the question as they were in the wrong. After roughly one hour the whole plane was asked to get off."
COPS CALLED
The mum claimed three police cars arrived with about eight officers and two people from Swissport.
These officials informed the family they would not be allowed back onto the plane but that it was easyJet's decision.
While everyone had been told to disembark the plane, the other passengers were allowed back onto the flight.
"So that whole day we were in Belfast Airport from 1pm to 9pm with our child - my legs were so swollen and sore with being on them all this time, I was crying uncontrollably," she added.
"I'm so traumatised to the point I don't know how I'll ever fly again. Every person on that plane is putting complaints in - some actually stood up on the plane to say to the pilot it was that air hostess who was being aggressive towards me, not me at all.
"So, I have a full plane of witnesses who are willing to tell how unfairly we were treated."
'DISGUSTING'
Siobhan explained other passengers filmed the ordeal to "prove" the stewardess' "disgusting behaviour".
In more footage shared by the outraged mum, an easyJet staff member is recorded telling her: "Is it that the staff ran out of hours and that's why they were delaying the flight?
"They would have been out of hours no matter what, wouldn't they.
"Realistically they'd have been out of hours, argument or not."
An easyJet spokesman told MailOnline: "We can confirm that flight EZY3003 from Belfast to Ibiza on 19th August was attended by police before departure due to a group of passengers behaving disruptively at check in and then onboard.
"EasyJet's cabin crew and ground agents are trained to assess and evaluate all situations and to act quickly and appropriately to ensure that the safety of the flight and other passengers is not compromised at any time.
"Whilst such incidents are rare we take them very seriously and do not tolerate abusive or threatening behaviour towards our crew or other passengers.
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"The safety and wellbeing of our passengers, crew and ground agents is always easyJet's priority."
A spokesperson also told The Sun Online: "All passengers on the flight returned to the terminal so the situation could be resolved and as soon as it was they reboarded and the aircraft continued to Ibiza."
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