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A lesbian couple travelling with their daughter have accused an airline of “blatant homophobia and discrimination” after they were asked to move seats so a husband and wife could sit together.

Kristina Antoniades and her partner Merrin Hicks were travelling on a Qantas flight when Hicks was asked to swap seats with a woman so she could sit with her husband.

When Hicks refused the request, the flight manager asked her why she wouldn’t move, Pink News reports.



Hicks and Antoniades explained that they were a couple, sat with their daughter, but say that the airline staff still insisted they allow the straight couple to sit together.



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Antoniades took to her Facebook on Tuesday to share her upsetting experience in a heated post, explaining that both she and her partner told the flight manager – who insisted on seeing their boarding passes to check their seat numbers – that there were sat in their designated seats.

“I again told her that Merrin was my partner and Lily our daughter,” she wrote. “I told her we had just as much right to be seated together as the married couple.

According to the Facebook post (which has now been made private) the on-board disagreement ended with both Antoniades and Hicks in tears – and without an apology. “She simply walked away. She did not offer an apology,” the post reads.



Qantas has since apologised, explaining that on that particular flight they were “faced with two separate groups of customers asking to switch seats to sit together, including an elderly couple.”

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