Family furious over missing flight after Ryanair tells them 'Scotland's not a country'

dailystar.co.uk:

Ryanair colleague told them that Scotland was 'not a country'. Piotr Dziedzic, a chef from Poland who has lived in Scotland since 2005, was held up by staff at Lisbon Airport in Portugal due to a geographical error, reports EdinburghLive.

They were told at first that UK rules did not apply if they were Polish, and then informed that their 13-year-old daughter Amelia would need to take a test in the airport.When it was made clear that Scottish Covid rules at the time (January 10) did not require Amelia to take the test, Ryanair officials then claimed the family needed to follow English rules.The family's eldest daughter Karolina, 23, was also questioned, with staff asking her who the Queen was and telling her Scotland was not in fact a country.Piotr, who runs the Lemon and Thyme restaurant in the town of Jedburgh, said: “Amelia was in fact born in Scotland therefore we do have to follow Scottish guidelines."Which other country’s rules could we possibly follow when entering our home in Scotland?"Even a Google search to prove that Scotland is in fact a country was dismissed by them; it is incomprehensible we had to even argue this.

Suddenly the initial problem that we are Polish wasn’t the cause of concern, but rather that we were following Scottish guidelines as opposed to English.