A Size 12 Mum Burst Into Tears After A Jet2 Staff Member ‘Asked If She Was Pregnant’
A size 12 mum says she was left ‘speechless’ and in tears when a Jet2 staff member ‘ushered her off the airport shuttle bus in front of other passengers and asked if she was pregnant’.
Claire King, 37, was about to board a flight from Edinburgh Airport to Ibiza for her first holiday since 2011, when she claims she was taken to one side by a male member of staff and asked if she ‘was expecting’.
Claire says the bus was ‘packed’ when she, her parents and three-year-old-daughter got on, and it was then she noticed the staff member, who’d checked her passport at the boarding gate, walking towards her.
Claire, who’s a size 12 – 14, says the staff member ‘looked her up and down’ before asking if she was ‘expecting’. A bold question, for sure!
As this is probably the worst thing you can ask a woman who isn’t expecting, Claire burst into tears before boarding the plane, and says it almost ruined her holiday.
Mum-of-one Claire can’t wrap her head around the comment, as she’s been ‘studying herself’ in the mirror wearing the same t-shirt and floaty trousers she wore at the airport, and doesn’t think she looks pregnant.
What made the comment even more brutal was that Claire endured four miscarriages before conceiving her only daughter. Not that the staff member could have know that, but it’s a wild question to ask in any case.
Jet2 have since apologised to Claire and explained that sometimes their teams are ‘required to ask customers questions for health and safety reasons before a flight’ and the colleague involved ‘will undergo retraining to ensure this does not happen again’.
Claire, from Fife, Scotland, said: “He pulled me over and he said he’d been asked by his manager to come over and ask me if I was expecting.
“At the same time he kind of looked me up and down.
“I looked at him in complete disbelief because it wasn’t a question that I expected to come out of his mouth. I just stared at him and it was almost like I was speechless.
“I didn’t really know what to say. At that point I turned around and I was like ‘is that a serious question?’
“He just looked at me and put his hands up and was like ‘okay, that’s all I needed to know. Enjoy your holiday’, and walked away.
“We were still standing there in disbelief looking at each other as if to be like ‘what the hell just happened, what was that?’.
“We were escorted back to the bus. The doors closed and as we started to drive up towards the plane, I could feel myself welling up. I could feel myself getting emotional.
“I started crying before we’d even got on the plane.
“He gave no reasoning. There was no explanation given as to why he even asked that question, what prompted the question, or how he came to that conclusion.
“It rocks your self confidence and for the first couple of days of the holiday I was very aware and it did put a dampener on the start of it which was not how this holiday was meant to be.”
Brutal stuff. Really not sure what that staff member was thinking or whether his manager really did tell him to ask Claire if she was pregnant. I mean, you have to be at least 99% sure that a lady is pregnant if you’re going to ask a question like that, surely. Obviously that kind of question is standard practice at a hospital before certain procedures, but in front of the other passengers right before you’re about to board a plane to Ibiza? Just had to be Jet2, didn’t it?
A Jet2 spokesman said: “We would like to reiterate our sincere apologies to Ms King, which our team have also done directly.
“The colleague in question is aware that this was not handled in an appropriate manner and is undergoing retraining to ensure it does not happen again.”
Onwards and upwards! (Pun not intended but intended).
For the Jet2 passenger who was dragged off a plane after removing his trousers and peeing on his brother, click HERE.
