Family Kicked Off End-of-Year Flight to Disneyland Over Suspicions Child Had Lice

Southwest Airlines stopped a family getting on a flight because they suspected a 6-year-old girl had lice in her hair, on Dec. 29. Tim Boyle/Getty Images

A family has been kicked off a flight to Disneyland after flight crew were told that the family’s 6-year-old girl had lice in her hair.

The Newman family were on their end-of-year outing and flying Southwest Airlines from Chicago to Santa Ana, California on Friday, Dec. 29.