But it could be worse…
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Hold my puke:
An Air Canada passenger claims that two of her fellow travelers were recently escorted off a plane because they refused to sit on vomit-covered seats for a five-hour flight.
Passenger Susan Benson wrote about the incident in a Facebook post on August 29. She explained that, before her flight from Las Vegas to Montreal took off, three passengers struggled to get seated because of a rancid smell.
"There was a bit of a foul smell but we didn’t know at first what the problem was," Benson wrote. "Apparently, on the previous flight someone had vomited in that area."
Benson said that Air Canada staff attempted to mask the smell with coffee grinds and perfume to no avail. Customers reportedly raised the issue to staff, explaining that their seats were wet and still had visible vomit residue.
"When the clearly upset passengers tried to explain to the flight attendant that the seat and seatbelt were wet and there was still visible vomit residue in their area, the flight attendant was very apologetic but explained that the flight was full and there was nothing they could do," Benson said, adding that the staff seemed reluctant to give them blankets to cover their seats.
The passengers reportedly argued with staff for several minutes. When a flight attendant brought her supervisor, they reiterated that there was nothing they could do.
The dilemma culminated when the pilot told two of the passengers that they needed to leave the plane, Benson said.
"[T]he pilot came down the aisle and very calmly knelt down and told the two ladies that they had two choices: They could leave the plane on their own accord and organize flights on their own dime, or they would be escorted off the plane by security and placed on a no-fly list!" the Canadian passenger wrote.
Benson maintained that her fellow passengers were not rude, but upset and firm. Security guards eventually escorted the two women off the plane.
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I mean, that sucks but what else could the plane do about it? You either accept the gross/blanket seat or you leave the plane. They can't just magically make new seats appear.
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I stand corrected, from the source (see FB post below), it seems the plane indeed kicked them off for "being rude" (the witness said they were upset but not rude) to the flight attendants. Not a good look for Air Canada, eh?
https://www.facebook.com/susan.benson.7739/posts/10159444569270887?ref=embed_post
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If excrement is a biohazard, then surely vomit is as well. I suspect they have stocks of seat cushions in various places.
@Mik said in But it could be worse…:
If excrement is a biohazard, then surely vomit is as well. I suspect they have stocks of seat cushions in various places.
Seems that this incident is turning into an even bigger and more costly embarrassment for Air Canada. Rightfully so as well.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/air-canada-vomit-flight-1.6959275
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@George-K Wow!! Was the person running down the aisle with their pants down?
@taiwan_girl said in But it could be worse…:
@George-K Wow!! Was the person running down the aisle with their pants down?
As a parent with memories of potty training days I would posit that it was dripping down their pant leg.
Had their pants been down it wouldn’t be so neatly arranged on the center of the floor.
Which means it was a lot of diarrhea.
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@taiwan_girl said in But it could be worse…:
@George-K Wow!! Was the person running down the aisle with their pants down?
As a parent with memories of potty training days I would posit that it was dripping down their pant leg.
Had their pants been down it wouldn’t be so neatly arranged on the center of the floor.
Which means it was a lot of diarrhea.
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i was on a flight one time from London - Hong Kong, and the kid across the aisle from me threw up on the center aisle. Fortunately, it was right before landing, so not too much a inconvenience. However, i did wonder what they did after the passengers left to clean it up. During the rest of the flight, they just laid a bunch of blankets on top of it.
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Many decades ago, I was attending a Vladamir Horowitz concert. Of course, it was a sell-out with stage seating. Entering the building a young woman threw up on an impeccably dressed man. She apologized. He was speechless. I had a stage seat. Guess who was sitting next to me? During the first piece, she took her purse, dropped its entire contents onto her lap and then threw up into her purse. As Horowitz left the stage, he was surprised to see the young woman exiting with him. Fortunately, she did not return.
