Jo and her partner Paul Scarborough were booked to fly from Murcia in Spain to Gatwick in London earlier this week with the low-cost airline, when they discovered that EasyJet only had one seat for them both, reported Daily Mirror.
"I arrived at Murcia Airport, checked in, had no luggage, went through security and had my boarding pass. Just before we were about to go onto the plane, they pulled us aside. Because I was with my fella, and said 'one of you can get on and one of you has to stay'," Jo says.
"I reckon it's because we had no luggage, we were easy to take off. I was furious because I had to get back for work the next day. They didn't stand there and ask who would come off the flight! Nobody said that - they just took us aside."
Jo, 62, and her 53-year-old partner ended up paying to fly home on a later flight on Ryanair instead.
An EasyJet spokesman said, "We were sorry to hear of Miss Wood's experience and would like to sincerely apologise for the inconvenience.
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