A seven-months-pregnant mother was left “traumatized” after being kicked off her flight for asking if there was any more room in the plane’s overhead bins.
If you’ve been paying attention to the news lately, you’ll know that airplanes have been rife with drama of all kinds over the past several months.
From a person having diarrhea so bad that their plane was grounded to a woman going viral for claiming that one of her fellow passengers “wasn’t real” in a shocking rant, it seems like flights can bring out the worst in us (both literally and figuratively).
However, one woman’s story is sending the internet for a loop after she claimed she was kicked off her flight for asking for a simple accommodation.
Pregnant woman feared “early labor” after being kicked off flight
Siobhan Foster was seven months along when she boarded an EasyJet flight headed to Ibiza for her brother’s wedding on August 19. Along with her were her husband, James Foster, and their special-needs daughter, Florence.
After boarding the plane, Foster claims she asked a flight attendant if there was any more room in the overhead bins — but her response shocked her.
“Her reply was a sharp, ‘Clearly not,’ so I asked, ‘Could you help me find somewhere?” she wrote in a Facebook post. “Her reply: ‘You’ll need to find somewhere yourself,’ even though there literally was nowhere.”
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“So I said, ‘Can you please help me? I’m heavily pregnant and my husband has our daughter.’Her response was, ‘ You’re being abusive and it’s not my job to help you.’”
Foster then claims that she and her family were asked to deboard after she was verbally abused by the flight attendant, who allegedly screamed at her, causing her to cry. After another hour, the entire plane was asked to leave — videos of which show other passengers sticking up for her.
Heavily pregnant woman kicked off plane She just needed some help with her cabin… pic.twitter.com/3wXtBGsNl9
— HOT SPOT (@HotSpotHotSpot) September 8, 2023
Foster stated that police were waiting for them when they returned to the airport and told the family that under no circumstances would they be allowed back on the plane, saying it was EasyJet’s decision, not theirs. The mom even claimed she was so stressed out that she feared she’d go into early labor.
“That whole day we were in Belfast airport from 1 lunchtime to 9 that night with our child,” Foster wrote. “My legs were so swollen and sore with being on them all this time. I was crying uncontrollably that this was happening to us for no reason whatsoever. I’m so traumatized to the point I don’t know how I’ll ever fly again.”
Luckily, Foster was able to make it to the wedding in spite of the massive delay and ‘traumatic’ experience.
This is just the latest airplane-related incident to take the net by storm after a mom demanded a passenger stop watching Game of Thrones as her child could see his screen.