Bizarre scene as passenger wears all his baggage

Geoffrey Thomas

By Geoffrey Thomas Thu Jan 18, 2018

The bizarre saga of Ryan Williams who was denied boarding in Iceland because has was wearing all his baggage is almost identical to an incident at Perth Airport in Western Australia, 2003, where a passenger wore all his diving equipment to avoid excess fees. Mr. Williams was booted off a British Airways flight on January 10th at Iceland’s Keflavik airport and then arrested for wearing eight trousers and ten shirts so as to evade an excess luggage fee of $125. It is also alleged that Mr. Williams who calls himself Ryan Hawaii on Twitter was rude and rowdy. He told the Iceland Monitor that the British Airways agent told him he could board the flight if he wore all of his clothes at once but then rejected him anyway. World's safest airlines 2018 On his Twitter video he says; “Come on, guys, look at this s—,”. “They’re really having me dress like this to go on, and they won’t even let me go on.” And a day later easyjet also denied him boarding because of the British Airways incident. Mr. Williams finally found an airline – Norwegian - to fly him back to England. He told media that “his treatment was due to racial prejudice because he had dreadlocks, wore flashy clothes and nail polish.” The extraordinary incident is almost identical to another that occurred at Perth Airport in 2003. The airline was National Jet and the destination was Cocos Island and the passenger – a diver – head heavy diving equipment in his baggage. Alarmed at the excess baggage he had to pay he retreated to put on the wetsuit, weight belt, goggles and returned to the check-in. The check-in agent gave in and waived the excess baggage cost and allowed him to take off the equipment.

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