Jan. 17 (UPI) — A British man was prevented from boarding a British Airways flight from Iceland to London after he attempted to wear 10 layers of clothes to avoid paying a baggage fee.
Ryan Carney Williams, who goes by the name Ryan Hawaii on social media, put on every article of clothing in his luggage while at the airport in Reykjavik last week after he was told he’d have to pay $125 to check a bag. But Williams said on Twitter that he didn’t have the funds.
“I couldn’t afford the fee as a result of being left homeless in Iceland for over a week,” he wrote on Twitter.
In a video he posted online, Williams said that airline employees told him he’d be able to get on the flight if he put on all his clothes, which he did.
@British_Airways hi being held at Iceland Keflavik airport because I had no baggage put all the clothes on and they still won’t let me on. Racial profiling? Or….. pic.twitter.com/NKgpe1cPFP
But it turned out, bundling up didn’t get him on the flight, either.
@British_Airways hi being held at Iceland Keflavik airport because I had no baggage put all the clothes on and they still won’t let me on. Racial profiling? Or…..
“The Captain and the ground crew were concerned about reports from the previous day so we provided a refund and he traveled with another airline,” easyJet spokeswoman Ruth Bishop told The Washington Post in an email.
