Rocker Joel Madden almost didn’t catch a flight from London to Lisbon Saturday because of his tattoos.

A British Airways employee told Madden that unless he covered up his ink he would not be allowed to board the flight.

Madden took to his Twitter to tell fans of the discrimination he was going through.  He described the British Airways agent as a man who was “disgusted” by his skin art. Despite another BA agent siding with Madden, Madden eventually gave in to the jerk and covered his tats so that he could board the flight. He had been traveling for quite some time and was in no mood to argue. He wrote,

“I did end up covering my tats. Its not my style to cause a scene I just had a convo with the BA guy told him how it was discrimination.”

Madden says that he was embarrassed by the whole ordeal and when he did get on the plane that people were staring and snickering.

I hope the jerkoff British Airways employee who had a woody for Joel and his tats gets suspended. I simply don’t agree with this. After I saw Madden’s Tweet I replied telling him to fight the power! I was seriously pissed. But alas, Madden is much more polite than I.

I hope BA feels a backlash! It makes me want to go get sleeves and hop a flight on the airlines!

Madden says he plans on writing a complaint ot the airlines.