Don’t you hate that feeling when you arrive at the boarding gate ready for your holiday and then realise something is terribly wrong?

Normally you realise you forgot your sun cream, or you may have left the hair straightener plugged in, oops.

For one 14-year old though, the reason she missed her flight was because she was too pale. Wtf? As of we didn’t have enough to worry about, now they expect us to have a golden glow before we even get on the flight?

When Grace Wain tried to board her flight to Abu Dhabi she was told she was “too pale” to fly. The staff at check-in were concerned about her health due to her pale complexion. Grace had to see the airport doctor, but the staff weren’t convinced.

It took a letter from her GP clearing her to fly which they managed to email to Etihad’s duty manager just two hours before they were due to take off.

Speaking to the Daily Record, Grace’s dad said he tried to explain that was how Grace always looked, she is a redhead with a pale complexion.

"One of the check-in girls then made the decision that she wasn't fit to fly based on the fact she was pale and leaning against her mum,” Paul Wain said.

A spokesperson for the airline has said "staff were concerned about the wellbeing of a young passenger ahead of a lengthy flight".

While the family did make the flight in the end, some of their luggage did not. Which left Paul and his wife Sheena at their luxury holiday resort with no clothes. For three days. Absolute nightmare.

Paul thinks the issue started because the flight was overbooked.

"It was a once-in-a-lifetime event and someone was telling us we weren't going anywhere. It was as if someone had just hit us around the head with a baseball bat… the kids started crying".

We think we would too.