"My little girl was crying": Family lose £2,000 holiday after dad turned away from plane at Manchester Airport over small passport detail

A mum said her little girl was 'left crying' after they were unable to go on their £2,000 holiday due to a 'near invisible' ink stain on her dad's passport.

Charlotte Estlick, her husband Myk and their six-year-old daughter Nyla were due to jet off from Manchester Airport to Dalaman in Turkey on a package holiday with TUI on May 3. But the Charlotte, from Rochdale, claimed that after arriving at Terminal Two and checking in, Myk was refused travel due to his passport being very lightly marked with blue ink.

The mum-of-one said he had 'worked hard all year' to pay for the holiday, which they had forked out almost £2,500 on with extras. Charlotte said her daughter was left devastated after the family was forced to abandon the holiday when Myk was unable to fly.

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She added that her husband had been using the same passport for eight years with the marking on it with no trouble and claimed he even used it to get into Dalaman last May. The 28-year-old said when they tried to get an emergency passport, the passport office did not have any availability for a few days - which would have meant Myk missing the majority of the trip.

The stay-at-home mum shared her ordeal with the 'petty' TUI staff on Facebook where it was inundated with comments from social media users who claimed they couldn't even see the ink stain. Government guidelines state that a passport can be classed as damaged if details are indecipherable or if there are ink stains on the pages.

Charlotte said: "We got to the airport in plenty of time, we weighed our bags and got our labels on the self check-in part in the airport and then went over to the TUI desk