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 many times called her "naked" during nan 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 nan confrontation while preparing to committee nan Lufthansa formation during nan summer heatwave. The video has since circulated wide connected societal media, wherever Pilz questioned whether nan hose has a dress codification for passengers and criticized what she described arsenic nan employee's curen 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, nan worker told her, "You cannot committee for illustration that," earlier many times telling her she was "naked."

Pilz said she was wearing a matching diversion apical and shorts and questioned why nan outfit was considered inappropriate in nan summertime heat.

"What americium I expected to put on?" she said successful nan 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 complete her diversion outfit. (Florian Gaertner/Photothek)

According to Pilz, nan worker told her she was not wearing "normal clothes" and instructed her to put thing complete her outfit earlier she would beryllium allowed to board nan aircraft.

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

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

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A rider speaks pinch 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, nan worker told her, "Because of you, we are now delayed. Because of you, nan full formation is delayed, because you are holding up each nan postulation here."

Pilz said she replied that she had simply asked for an mentation because she had ne'er heard of an hose dress code.

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

The influencer said nan incident was little astir whether Lufthansa has a clothing argumentation than nan measurement she said she was treated by nan employee.

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

Pilz ended nan video by straight questioning Lufthansa and asking whether nan hose condones that type of customer service, adding that she was waiting for an charismatic response.

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