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16.06.2022 - 12:31 / dailyrecord.co.uk
A diabetic woman was left stranded in Alicante after Ryanair refused to let her board a flight home with her hand luggage because it was 'too big'.
Teresa Bruce had travelled to Benidorm from Prestwick Airport with pals for a five-day trip and was queueing for her flight home when she was approached by a Ryanair staff member.
The 63-year-old, from Irvine, was told her hand luggage was too big to take on board and she would need to pay €69 to place the suitcase in the hold, despite travelling with the same case days earlier.
The Asda employee said she didn't have enough money to pay the fee after having spent her cash on her holiday.
She told the Record: "We were at the gate queuing for priority when a woman came up to me and told me to go with her and bring my suitcase.
"I went with her and she told me my suitcase was too big to go on the plane. I said 'how can it not come on the plane? I travelled here with it'.
"She told me I would have to pay €69 but it was the end of my holiday and I didn't have any money left.
"I couldn't understand why I needed to pay for the case when I had flown over from Prestwick with it just five days before."
Teresa desperately needed to get home that day to take medication for her Type 2 diabetes but was instead forced to sleep in the airport in a 'frightening' experience.
"I need to take a jag every Thursday for my Type 2 diabetes and I didn't take it with me as it needs to be refrigerated. I was expecting to get home that day," she continued.
"I asked to speak to a supervisor and said I was diabetic and had to get home for my medication.
"She said no and if I wanted to speak to anyone about it I would have to go back out through security to find someone, but by that point my flight would have
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