Airport worker gets the sack after scrawling sweary message on a baby’s suitcase after family checked in ‘late’

• Baggage handler at Stansted for Ryanair flight scrawled ‘c***’ on baby’s suitcase

An airport worker has been given the sack after he scrawled a sweary message on a baby’s suitcase after the family checked in ‘late’.

Father Mario Lucas, 40, found the words ‘c*** stop checking in late’ written with a pen on his seven-month-old son’s bag that went in the baggage hold.

The Cypriot saw the message after catching a flight back home from Stansted Airport after paying a visit to the UK to see family.

Mr Lucas, his wife Serena and their son had checked in for the Ryanair flight to Paphos, on the southwest coast of Cyprus, around 90 minutes before it was due to take off.

While he said he did not check in two hours before take-off as is recommended, he has been later than that in the past and has had no issues.

Father Mario Lucas (pictured with wife Serena), 40, found the words ‘c*** stop checking in late’ written with a pen on his seven-month-old son’s bag that went in the baggage hold

Mr Lucas’ seven-month-old son’s suitcase which had the words ‘cunt sotp checking in late’ scrawled on it

He said that no-one at the desk and Stansted made any comment to them and that ‘everything was fine’, the Sun reports.

The entrepreneur told the paper that he immediately saw his son’s case on the baggage reclaim belt and that his wife Serena ‘noticed the writing straight away’.

He said that calling his young son the c-word is ‘rude and outrageous’.

The outraged father has said he wants airline Ryanair to replace the suitcase, which he said was newly bought in September.

Mr Lucas said he has complained to the budget airline, who have investigated with Stansted baggage-handling contractors ABM Blue Handling.

The firm said the incident was ‘unacceptable’ and was immediately investigated.

After conclusive evidence was uncovered the member of staff responsible was sacked, the baggage-handling company said.

Mr Lucas, his wife Serena and their son had checked in for the Ryanair flight to Paphos, on the southwest coast of Cyprus, around 90 minutes before it was due to take off

ABM Blue Handling told The Sun: ‘This unacceptable incident was reported by our own team on the day, immediately investigated and following conclusive evidence, the individual involved has been dismissed.

‘Mr Lucas was contacted by the airport and an apology extended. We have a zero-tolerance policy for offensive behaviour, and we want to extend our sincere apologies to Mr Lucas.’

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