Airline sorry for 'H8GAYS' confirmation code Jeff White discovered the code after checking in for a Delta Air Lines flight from Pensacola, Florida, to Albany, New York, earlier this month, the Washington Post reports. "At first I didn't think I read it right," Mr White, a student at the University of West Florida, told the newspaper. I was worried that another customer might think I somehow picked that code. If I were a gay male, I might have thought that a Delta worker purposely gave me that code, and that would have made me extremely uncomfortable. Mr White added: "I'm an IT major, and what surprises me is that they didn't block [the confirmation code] as a possibility of the string of random numbers and letters in the software they use to generate" the code, he says. I'm sure they removed many four-letter words that would be seen as offensive. I'm surprised that "gays" and "H8" weren't blocked as well." Earlier this year Jetstar, the low-cost Australian airline, issued an apology to a passenger who pulled his suitcase from a baggage carousel at Perth Airport to find the message "I am gay" written on it with stickers. The man, a father of two, wrote about the incident in a blog, and said that his suitcase had been the first to appear on the carousel. He said he was "utterly disgusted" and saw the eyes of fellow passengers "look him up and down." "I was taken aback by the slogan but thought I had thick enough skin to ignore the leering," he added.