Airline apologises to passenger after 'I am gay' is written on his luggage with baggage stickers

Australian airline Jetstar has apologised to a passenger who retrieved his luggage from a baggage carousel to find the words "I am gay" written on it with airline baggage sticker tags.



The man said he was "utterly disgusted" when his red suitcase shot out first onto the carousel covered in sticker stubs from the flight's checked luggage. The married father-of-two, who had been visiting Perth, said he believed someone at Perth Airport had defaced his bag before the red-eye flight.

He said he did not know anyone at the airport who may have been playing a joke on him. "I know nobody there. It was after midnight and the flight delayed over an hour... idle hands, perhaps," he tweeted on Sunday.



But he said he did not want anyone to lose their job over the incident. A Jetstar spokesman said the airline was conducting a "thorough investigation" into the incident. "We are taking this matter very seriously and we have contacted the passenger to apologise for any distress caused," he said.