Etihad Airways bans girl for being too pale

/ Justfab blog

Scottish teenager Grace Wain was banned from an Etihad Airways flight in Manchester for being “too pale.”

Staff told Wain, 14, she looked “pale and unwell," the Scottish Daily Record reported. Her family was going on holiday.

“She is a redhead and she has a pale complexion,” said her father Paul Wain. “

That’s just the way she is.”

Etihad said its staff were just “worried about Grace’s health.”

“Staff were concerned about the wellbeing of a young passenger ahead of a lengthy flight,” the airline said in a statement.

“The team called for a medic, who examined the child and requested a ‘fit to fly’ letter from a doctor, allowing the family to board.”