Dr. Mehdi Asghari, a Canadian citizen who was born in Iran, is on a mission to fight what he calls an injustice at Toronto Pearson International Airport – a fight he believes impacts several travellers who may run into the same issue his family encountered after they were denied boarding on an Air Canada flight.
The family had bought tickets back in February to return to Iran for a wedding this past August, a trip they’ve done several times in the past without issue.
But when they went to board the flight, they were turned away over a passport issue.
“We were told the Iranian passport my daughter had did not match the name on the boarding pass.”
But her Canadian passport did. According to Air Canada’s rules, only one passport must match the name on the boarding pass.
Their daughter, who is 12, was born in the U.S. and at that time Asghari and his wife chose a new name for her.
“We chose a Western family name because we knew that she was going…
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