As airline horror stories go, Vanessa Vlajkovic has a more devastating one than most: being refused boarding a flight because she was travelling alone.

The 21-year-old journalism student had booked a flight from Perth to Adelaide on Thursday evening for a short holiday.

It was meant to be her first unaccompanied flight as Ms Vlajkovic, who is deafblind, usually travels with a support person.

“I called [Jetstar] twice and had a discussion with some staff to make sure that they knew I had a disability, to make sure that they knew I had special needs,” Ms Vlajkovic told the ABC through an interpreter.

“What they said at the time was ‘Yeah, all good, that’s fine’.”

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