The British budget airline easyJet informed a 21-year-old tourist named Kieran Harris a day before departure that he was denied flights on its planes for 10 years.
As the Mirror writes, the boy was supposed to fly on a flight from Liverpool (Great Britain) to Alicante (Spain) on May 25, 2023, together with his friends. However, on the eve of the long-awaited vacation, his friend, who had booked tickets for the entire company a month in advance, received a letter that one of them would not be able to board.
The email claimed that “due to past disruptive behavior” Kieran Harris received a “10-year flying ban until March 15, 2031”.
However, it later emerged that the airline had confused him with a boy who was sentenced to 12 weeks in prison for aggressive and abusive behavior while drunk on an easyJet flight in 2021. It turned out that they completely coincided both in name and date of birth.
Kieran claims that this is not the first time he has suffered because of such similarities. Earlier, police stormed his home after misidentifying him as the wrong Kieran Harris. In another case, he was mistaken for another boy after he was involved in an accident when the police searched for him in their database.
Therefore, after receiving a refusal from the airline, he immediately turned to technical support. After he sent customer service his photo ID, he was allowed to board. However, the situation was “disturbed” just a few hours before the departure, so the guy had to get nervous.
Harris now claims he will even consider changing his name if such incidents continue.