Kristina Antoniades has shared her account of the incident on Facebook, telling pals: "We had just as much right to be seated together as the married couple"
A lesbian couple travelling with their daughter were left humiliated when asked to move seats by plane staff for a man and his wife.
Kristina Antoniades, a 35-year-old lawyer, was travelling Qantas business class from Brisbane to Melbourne when the upsetting incident unfolded on Monday.
She was sat with her daughter Lily and partner Merrin Hicks when she was approached by staff.
The flight manager asked her why "she had taken it upon [herself] to move the wife away from her husband", she wrote in an emotional Facebook post.
Kristina added: "I told her we had just as much right to be seated together as the married couple.
"She simply walked away."
It all began when the family were called over to customer services before boarding the flight.
The post read: "Merrin was advised that Qantas had made the decision to move her seat to another row so that a married couple could be seated together.
"They did not acknowledge that we were a family and wanted to sit together."
After informing staff that they would not be moving, they were issued their original boarding passes.
However that was not the end of it.
Kristina claims the flight manager asked her partner why she was sat next to the man, whose wife was sat in the row behind.
She added: "We produced [our boarding passes] and again she asked why we were not allowing the married couple to be seated together. I again told her that Merrin was my partner and Lily our daughter."
The lawyer insisted that the couple were in their 50s or 60s and not affected by their age.
Kristina also insists that the man understood the couple wanted to be seated together as they were travelling with a toddler.
