A boy was refused boarding for his flight due to a common issue with his passport.

Alix Law was due to leave with his family for a two-week break in Phuket in Thailand when airline staff told him his passport was damaged and could not be accepted for travel.

The 13-year-old was told by Qatar Airways his document was invalid due to a ‘luggage sticker mark’ in one of the pages.

His mother Meghan said the sticker had been placed on one of the stamping pages, not the photo page and had not left any rips.

‘I said I’ve used this umpteen times. No one’s ever mentioned any damage on it before’, she explained.

‘There were no rips, it was just where the sticker marks had been. They said we couldn’t travel with it.

‘I knew there were no issues with their passports. We’d probably travelled over

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