Sick Sid's inflight kidney fight

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Sick Sid's inflight kidney fight
 
By JOHN TROUP
The Sun
July 12, 2007
 
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A SICK pensioner was charged £120 by budget airline easyJet to take his DIALYSIS machine on a holiday jet.

Sid Glassberg, 77, has to be hooked up for eight hours a day after suffering kidney failure.

But the machine put him over his luggage allowance — and an easyJet jobsworth refused to let him on to a flight from London Stansted to Malaga, Spain, until he had coughed up the excess baggage fee.

Sid, of Clayhall, Essex, said: “I couldn’t believe it. I had two hospital letters with me stating that I’m a kidney sufferer who needs dialysis.”

Last night an easyJet spokesman said: “We apologise and will be refunding the £120.”

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