Woman Banned From Flying Because She Has A Middle Name Called ISIS

A woman says she was barred from booking a flight three times – because she is called ISIS.

Rani Isis Lake, 29, of Kent, is named after the Egyptian goddess and has always attracted comments from people about her unusual monicker.
She says it had never caused her any trouble until she tried to book internal flights for a year-long volunteering trip to Canada next year.

Ms Lake says she bought a flight between Toronto and Vancouver with three different agents – only to have it mysteriously cancelled by each of them.

The first agent blamed ‘technical problems’ and the other two accused her of cancelling it herself as they scrapped her booking.

After the three failed bookings over the phone Isis finally got her flight for later this month after her mum booked it using Isis’s other first name of Rani.

Ms Lake, a chef, said she feels discriminated against over her name and fears how she will be treated when security officials in Canada see her passport.

    She said: ‘I’m a bit incensed. It’s completely ridiculous and completely unfair.

    ‘I don’t want to change my name and I shouldn’t have to.

    ‘They can’t do that. It is sort of discriminatory.’

Ms Lake said she has always uses her middle name first, and has booked tickets and travelled in the past using it.

Around a year ago she booked a flight from London to Toronto on December 18 to start a year of conservation work in Canada and said she had no problems.

But she ran into trouble a month ago when she decided she wanted to spend Christmas in Vancouver and tried to book an internal flight across Canada with budget airline Sunwing.

She tried first with Expedia and was on course to book a flight until she gave her name and was quickly told there were ‘technical problems with taking bookings’.