Sharon Corr has slammed Ryanair for its response after she claimed she was refused boarding on a flight to Dublin as a result of she was travelling together with her violin.
The chart-topping Corrs musician, 54, stated she was left ‘humiliated’, ‘angry’ and ‘crying’ by the scenario as she did not get house to rehearse for an upcoming tour.
She performs within the world-famous Irish pop rock outfit together with her sisters Andrea and Caroline and brother Jim, which they based collectively in 1990 and have gone on as a bunch to promote 40million albums worldwide.
Breathless hitmaker Sharon, who moved to stay in Madrid, Spain, together with her two teenage kids in 2018, revealed on Instagram on Sunday that she had been booked on a flight to her ‘home turf’ however was as a substitute pressured to return house after accumulating her already-checked-in baggage.
‘Today I was booked on a @ryanair flight. I got up at 6 in the morning. I was not allowed on the flight because I had my violin. I was in the airport for 7 hours,’ the pop star wrote on Instagram.
She continued: ‘I had to return home after searching for my checked in bags. Humiliated, angry then crying as only a good woman can do.’
Explaining her anger, Sharon added: ‘Why was I going to Dublin? My home turf, to rehearse, to go on tour! I’m past upset.’
‘Michael O’Leary disgrace one [sic] you,’ she completed off her message, namechecking the airline’s CEO.
Ryanair states on its web site that passengers can ‘carry any music equipment onboard as long as it fits within Cabin Bag allowance’.
‘For smaller music equipment like guitars or violins that exceed your cabin baggage dimensions, you can opt to pay an extra seat fare for it. To do this, you must purchase an extra flight ticket and seat,’ it continues.
‘If your equipment does not fit in your Cabin Bag allowance and you do not wish to purchase an extra seat, you can choose to check it in against payment of a fee.’
A spokesperson for the airline claimed that the Irish violinist’s instrument exceeded the cabin baggage dimension.
‘This passenger was not refused travel from Madrid to Dublin,’ they shared with MailOnline, citing Sharon’s unique flight date of Sunday June 30.
‘This passenger’s violin exceeded the cabin bag dimensions permitted for her flight, and due to this fact was required to pay a normal gate baggage payment to put it within the maintain of the plane.’
They added: ‘This passenger refused to pay the standard fee and instead chose not to travel on this flight.’
However, Sharon, who had one in all her first main worldwide hits with The Corrs with Runaway, took to social media once more on Monday to strongly refute Ryanair’s model of occasions.
‘Tisk, tisk @ryanair,’ the What Can I Do singer and musician wrote on her Instagram Story earlier than quoting the airline’s declare that she had ‘refused to pay the standard fee and instead chose not to travel on this flight’, which she slammed as ‘not factual’.
‘I offered to buy a seat for my violin and was refused!’ Sharon claimed.
‘You cannot place a violin in the hold as obviously it is a fragile instrument. I was refused by them to travel,’ the star maintained.
The Corrs are set to play a string of UK and European dates over the following two weeks, together with a present at Westonbirt Arboretum in Gloucestershire on Saturday earlier than they help Glastonbury 2024 headliner Shania Twain as particular company for her BST Hyde Park date on Sunday in London.
They are additionally embarking on their 2024 UK and Ireland Talk on Corners tour in November, named after their second and breakthrough album from 1997.
The Corrs beforehand received finest worldwide group on the 1999 Brit Awards, whereas two of their hits, Breathless and Rebel Heart, have been nominated for Grammys.
They went on prolonged hiatus in 2006, taking outing to lift households and pursue solo ventures, earlier than reuniting in 2015 and releasing their sixth after which seventh studio albums, White Light and 2017’s Jupiter Calling.
Since 2022 they’ve been touring the world collectively once more.
Sharon was beforehand married to barrister Gavin Bonnar from 2001 earlier than they separated in 2019.
The former couple share son Cal, 18, and daughter Flori, 16.
Aside from her world success with The Corrs, Sharon has additionally launched three solo albums and appeared as a coach on the primary and second seasons of expertise present The Voice of Ireland in 2012 and 2013.
Metro.co.uk has contacted Ryanair for additional remark.
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