Family of Chicago claims that they were not allowed on the flight Southwest Airlines from Illinois to California because of false accusations that their child is lice.
About NBC 5 said the head of the family of Numerov.
According to him, the family was going to fly to Disneyland, they stood in line for boarding when his wife noticed something in her hair six-year-old daughter. «It was dandruff or dry skin. The wife just brushed her hair daughter,» said the man.
But after a few minutes they were approached by representatives of Southwest Airlines and said that the family denied boarding. «They said my daughter might have lice. My wife and I looked at each other with the expression: come on, are you serious?!».
In a statement to NBC 5, the airline said that the employees asked several concerned passengers who said that «it may be a contagious disease».
«When we receive such requests from a few people, we have no right to ignore them», — noted in Southwest Airlines.
Mr Newman said that his daughter does not have lice, and now the girl is crying because she thinks if her family did not get to Disneyland.
Today brandy king, a Southwest Airlines representative, told The New York Post that the family still got tickets for another flight this week, and the company apologized for the incident.
