Jet2 apologises after staff asked if woman was pregnant
Claire King, who is a size 12 and is not pregnant, said a Jet2 male gate agent had 'looked her up and down' before asking if she was 'expecting'.
The 37-year-old, from Fife, Scotland, had been travelling on an early morning flight from Edinburgh Airport to Ibiza on June 7 with her parents and three-year-old daughter.
The patient care adviser said she was left speechless and burst into tears before boarding the plane.
Jet2 have apologised to Ms King and said sometimes their teams are 'required to ask customers questions for health and safety reasons' and the colleague involved 'will undergo retraining'.
'No woman should be asked'
She 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 didn't really know what to say. At that point, I turned around and I was like 'is that a serious question?'
'He put his hands up and was like 'okay, that's all I needed to know. Enjoy your holiday', and walked away.
'We were escorted back to the bus. We started to drive up towards the plane, I could feel myself welling up.'
Ms King said that no woman should be asked the question if there is any doubt surrounding whether she is pregnant or not.
She said: 'There was no explanation given as to why he even asked that question, what prompted the question, or how he came to that conclusion.'
After giving birth to her daughter three years ago, Ms King says she 'carries a bit of timber', but is grateful for her body, which gave her 'the greatest gift'.
'It was my first holiday in 11 years, I was about to put my body into a swimsuit, perhaps into tighter fitting clothes.
'But for somebody to then come up and ask you that question, it does just make you think 'Is that how I look?''
A Jet2 spokesman said: 'We would like to reiterate our sincere apologies to Ms. King, which our team have also done directly.
'Whilst our teams might sometimes be required to ask customers questions for health and safety reasons, they are trained to handle this in an appropriate manner, and we recognise that this did not happen on this isolated occasion.'
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