It has been reported that an

employee for Insert Australia

Airlines), who happened to have the last name of Gay, got

on a plane recently using the company' s Tree Flight' offer

for staff. However. when Mr Gay tried to take his seat. he

found it being occupied by a fare paying passenger.

so, not to make a fuss, he simply chose another seat Unknown to Mr Gay,

another rinsed flight at the airport experienced mechanical problems, The

passengers of this flight were being regrouped to various other airplanes.

A few were put on Mr Gay' s flight and anyone who was holding a 'free'

was being 'bumped'., Anson officials, armed with a list of these

ticket holders boarded the plane, as is the practise, to remote

in favour of fare paying passengers. Of course, our Mr Gay was not

sitting in his assigned seat as you may remember, so when the Ticket Agent

approached the seat where Mr Gay was supposed to be sitting, she asked a

startled customer "Are you gay?" The man, shyly nodded that he was, at

which point she demanded: "Then you have to get off the plane, "

Mr Gay, overheating what the Agent had said, tried to clear up the

situation: "‘" " yae got the wrong man. Fm Gaye" This caused an angry

third passenger to yell "Herd Fro gay tool They tan' t kick us all off? *"

Confusion reined as more and more passengers began yelling that Insert

had no right to remove gays from their flights -.... . -1.; ...

it is reported that Insert have refused to comment on the incident.

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