Pregnant mom kicked off EasyJet flight after asking for overhead space

A seven-months pregnant mother was kicked off an EasyJet flight after an attendant called her “abusive” when she asked for help finding space for her bag in the overhead compartment, causing everyone to get booted from the plane.

Siobhan Foster, her husband James and their special-needs daughter, Florence, boarded a crowded EasyJet flight from Belfast, Ireland, to Ibiza on Aug. 19 when a “grumpy” flight attendant kicked them off.

“I will NEVER fly with EasyJet again, I understand why people call them sleezy jet!” Foster, who was heading to her brother’s wedding in the Mediterranean hotspot, wrote in a damning Facebook post.

Foster had asked the flight attendant, who was not named, if there was “anymore space in the overhead lockers” and was told there was “clearly not.”

“You’ll need to find somewhere yourself even though there literally was nowhere,” Foster claimed the attendant replied.

But when Foster asked for help, as she is heavily pregnant, the EasyJet employee allegedly told her: “You’re being abusive and it’s not my job to help you.”

Another flight attendant reportedly backed up her coworker, but Foster argued that crewmembers have always helped her on other airlines.

“Writing this, I understand it would make you think was I being abusive, but I honestly wasn’t and the whole plane can vouch for me,” Foster wrote. “People were actually putting this on [Facebook] about how bad I was treated.”

Foster eventually found a place to put her carry-on, but was later approached by two crewmembers, who also accused of her being aggressive. The mom of one said she ignored them because she was “crying” and “so upset.”

Moments later, she and her family were kicked off the flight by the “grumpy” flight attendant and another. When Foster’s mom and brother reportedly asked why they were being removed from the flight, they were told it was because of Foster’s aggression.

“To say I was in shock was an understatement in no way shape or form was I aggressive, the whole plane could see how she was being towards me,” Foster wrote.

Eventually, EasyJet employees resorted to having all 180 passengers exit the plane and go back into Belfast International Airport, which caused an uproar, Foster claimed.

“Every passenger on there was chanting to get this air hostess of who, in fact, said she was the manager,” Foster wrote. “Everyone went back inside and 3 police cars arrived it was like something I’ve never experienced before, then me, my husband, brother and mums name was called out over the [speaker] to come to Gate 8.”

The family was met by eight police officers and two Swissport employees and were informed they would not be allowed back on the flight, as per the airline’s decision, the Ireland native claimed.

Foster claimed they were then escorted out of the airport by police and then had to wait three hours to get their checked baggage back.

“So, that whole day we were in Belfast airport from one lunchtime to nine that night with our child, 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,” she wrote on Facebook.

EasyJet has denied any wrongdoing and claimed Foster’s family was “behaving disruptively,” a spokesperson told Daily Mail.

“EasyJet’s cabin crew and ground agents are trained to assess and evaluate all situations and to act quickly and appropriately to ensure that the safety of the flight and other passengers is not compromised at any time.

“The Captain took the decision to ask all passengers on the flight to return to the terminal so the situation could be resolved and as soon as it was they re-boarded and the aircraft continued to Ibiza.”

The plane was delayed at least four hours, according to Foster, and a new crew had to take over because the original team hit their allotted hours.

The Foster family made it to Ibiza the next day, just in time for the wedding, after managing to get a Ryanair flight out of Dublin.

“Thankfully we got to Ibiza and made my brother’s wedding to say how stressed, upset and overwhelmed I’ve been I honestly think I’ve no words,” she wrote.

“EasyJet should be ashamed of themselves and I most definitely am taking this further, I’m still in shock of how we were treated especially being seven months pregnant and having a disabled child with us.