A breastfeeding mother has been asked to leave a Virgin airport business lounge because she was pumping breastmilk, she claims.

Dr Elise Turner said she was in the Virgin airport business lounge, at what appears to be Melbourne Airport in her video, expressing breastmilk using a pump underneath her T-shirt when she was asked to stop.

“I’ve been told that I can’t sit here in the Virgin lounge as a paying business-class ticket holder to express breastmilk... because this is a private business lounge, and we don’t do that here,” Turner said on social media.

Turner claimed a service manager in the lounge told her she could not express milk there.

“[She] has explicitly told me I am not to do that in the public lounge area, and that I must go and sit in a bathroom, in a toilet,” she said.

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