Fitness influencer says Lufthansa told her she looked ‘naked,’ forced her to zip up before boarding flight

Fitness influencer Edda Elisa Pilz says she was prevented from boarding a Lufthansa formation from Berlin to Austria until she covered up her diversion outfit, alleging an hose worker repeatedly called her "naked" during the brushwood arsenic temperatures reached 30 degrees Celsius (86 degrees Fahrenheit).

Pilz, 24, who boasts much than 500,000 followers connected some Instagram and TikTok, shared a video describing the confrontation portion preparing to committee the Lufthansa formation during the summertime heatwave. The video has since circulated wide connected societal media, wherever Pilz questioned whether the hose has a formal codification for passengers and criticized what she described arsenic the employee's attraction of her.

Pilz said she was waiting to person her boarding walk scanned erstwhile a Lufthansa worker stopped her from boarding.

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According to Pilz, the worker told her, "You cannot committee similar that," earlier repeatedly telling her she was "naked."

Pilz said she was wearing a matching diversion apical and shorts and questioned wherefore the outfit was considered inappropriate successful the summertime heat.

"What americium I expected to enactment on?" she said successful the video. "What should I wear? It is clothing."

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A Lufthansa craft sits astatine Berlin Brandenburg Airport successful Schoenefeld, Germany, connected June 4, 2026. A fittingness influencer says she was prevented from boarding a Lufthansa formation from Berlin to Austria implicit her diversion outfit. (Florian Gaertner/Photothek)

According to Pilz, the worker told her she was not wearing "normal clothes" and instructed her to enactment thing implicit her outfit earlier she would beryllium allowed to committee the aircraft.

Pilz said she enactment connected a overgarment but was past told she besides had to zip it wholly earlier being allowed to proceed.

She alleged the worker past blamed her for delaying the boarding process.

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A rider speaks with unit astatine a Lufthansa work halfway successful Munich connected Feb. 12, 2026. A fittingness influencer says she was prevented from boarding a Lufthansa formation from Berlin aft an worker objected to her diversion outfit. (Malin Wunderlich/picture alliance)

According to Pilz, the worker told her, "Because of you, we are present delayed. Because of you, the full formation is delayed, due to the fact that you are holding up each the postulation here."

Pilz said she replied that she had simply asked for an mentation due to the fact that she had ne'er heard of an hose formal code.

She besides claimed men wearing shorts were allowed to committee the aforesaid formation without being stopped.

The influencer said the incidental was little astir whether Lufthansa has a covering argumentation than the mode she said she was treated by the employee.

"I tin judge rules," she said. "But the cognition was unacceptable."

Pilz ended the video by straight questioning Lufthansa and asking whether the hose condones that benignant of lawsuit service, adding that she was waiting for an authoritative response.

Lufthansa's General Conditions of Carriage bash not look to see a circumstantial rider formal code. The hose says it whitethorn garbage proscription nether definite circumstances, including erstwhile a passenger's behaviour could importantly impact the "safety and security, the wellness oregon wellbeing of different passengers," oregon for different operational oregon information reasons, but the argumentation does not specifically code diversion clothing.

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Pilz and Lufthansa did not instantly respond to Fox News Digital's petition for comment.

Fox News Digital's Christina Shaw contributed to this report.