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Lesbian couple traveling with daughter accuse Qantas of ‘blatant homophobia’ after being asked to move for husband and wife
The lesbian couple traveling with their daughter have accused Qantas of ‘blatant homophobia’ after they were asked to move for a husband and wife.
Kristina Antoniades, a 35-year-old lawyer, and her partner Merrin Hicks were traveling business class from Brisbane to Melbourne on Monday (9 November) when Hicks was asked to move seats so a straight couple could sit together.
‘I thought that would be the end of it but once the plane took off the flight manager asked why Merrin was seated next to the man and his wife seated behind them,’ Antoniades wrote in an emotional Facebook post.
‘I again advised the flight manager that we were a family and wanted to be seated together. She asked me why I had taken it upon myself to move the wife away from her husband. I advised her that we were in our designated seats.
‘She demanded to see our boarding passes. We produced them and again she asked why we were not allowing the married couple to be seated together.
‘I again told her that Merrin was my partner and Lily our daughter. I told her we had just as much right to be seated together as the married couple.
‘She simply walked away. She did not offer an apology.’
Antoniades said she was left feeling humiliated and tears after the incident.
A spokesperson for Qantas – which has an openly gay CEO – said they had contacted the couple to apologize for the ‘unfortunate misunderstanding.’
‘We have been in contact with the passengers to apologize for the situation, where we were faced with two separate groups of customers asking to switch seats to sit together, including an elderly couple,’ she said.
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Darren Wee
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