Call her hun solo.
A British woman had to take her vacation alone after her boyfriend was banned from boarding over a passport defect, as detailed in a TikTok video with over 760,000 views.
The depressing clip showed the passenger, named Lauren, lounging alone on a chair in a bikini with a picturesque ocean vista in the background — but no beau anywhere in sight.
The solo flyer explained in the caption that British Airways didn’t let her boyfriend board the trip to the undisclosed locale “because of a small tear in his passport.”
However, staff encouraged Lauren to go ahead and take her flight because they “had a friend who got a new passport in four hours” — presumably an attempt to assure the distraught traveler that her BF would soon join her in paradise.
Unfortunately, it appeared that her stranded soulmate didn’t follow suit.
“You now have two days of your holiday remaining and you’re still on your own,” Lauren lamented in the caption. “Thanks for ruining our holiday @British Airways.”
Lauren’s plight divided viewers, with some faulting her and her beau for assuming they could travel with a ripped passport.
“I fear it is common knowledge that damaged passport is no longer valid,” scoffed one, while another wrote, “I fear this is not British Airways’ fault.”
“Easier for the airline to stop the issue before departure than for your bf to get to [the] destination and be deported back, no?” reasoned a third.
One defender quipped, “God, I might tear my partner’s passport we go away next month. I’d love a week to myself.”
However, others believed that BA was being heavy-handed with one defender writing, “This is legit 1000% the Airways’ fault. A damaged passport is valid as long as the chip inside is still workin. My passport was in the Washing machine three times and they let me thru.”
The US Department of State defines passport damage as “stains from a liquid, a significant tear, unofficial markings on the data page, missing visa pages (torn out), or a hole punch.”
“Normal ‘wear and tear’ such as folded pages or a small bend do not count as damage,” they wrote.
This wouldn’t be the first time that an airplane passenger got bounced because of an insignificant-seeming passport defect.
In September, an Australian man unleashed on Virgin Australia after a tiny coffee stain on his partner’s passport stopped them from boarding a flight to Bali.