Puking on airplanes.

[MrMorgan]

Hi everyone. I witnessed something on my Delta flight from MSP to Amsterdam today that was quite unbelievable and I wanted to ask if this is somehow "standard practice", or if anyone has any insight into the situation.

 

Upon take-off, the guy sitting in front of me filled up his airsickness bag. Poor guy He as pretty cute, too Anyways, as soon as the seatbelt sign was turned off, he got up to go throw the bag away in the bathroom, but was intercepted by a flight attendant who told... no... COMMANDED him to take it right back to his seat because he was not allowed to dispose of it on the airplane. They kept a careful watch on him and the poor thing was forced to stare at a bag of his own puke for the rest of the 8 hour flight. It gets better: Towards the end of the flight when they were coming down the aisle with big trash bags held open for anyone to throw any extra trash inside, he tried to put it in, and the flight attendant acted absolutely disgusted and made him TAKE IT BACK OUT OF THE TRASH!

 

WHY? Is this some kind of aviation rule, or where they just being rude to him? I still can't believe the whole incident!

[beatle11]

I wonder if the flight attendant was trying to get fired. That's just unacceptable.

[VinTheAttendant]

Was it just one attendant or the whole staff? I don't get airsickness as frequently as I used to, but I always disposed of it in the bathroom.

[MrMorgan]

Was it just one attendant or the whole staff? I don't get airsickness as frequently as I used to, but I always disposed of it in the bathroom.

 

I witnessed it from two different attendants. Why would it not be allowed that he throw it away in the lav? Or in the big trash bag at the end?

[SharkTums]

That's very odd indeed!

 

I would probably chalk it up to some surly ex-NWA flight attendants. Most likely there's some rule buried somewhere in their handbook that on international flights bodily waste must be disposed of properly or some crap that no one follows unless you have some obnoxious flight crew or was too much work for them.

 

I know KT threw up on Korean Air a couple of years ago and the flight attendants came running over and helped clean me and her up and went WAY beyond the call of duty! No crazy rules or anything and that was also an international flight.

[MrMorgan]

That's very odd indeed!

 

I would probably chalk it up to some surly ex-NWA flight attendants. Most likely there's some rule buried somewhere in their handbook that on international flights bodily waste must be disposed of properly or some crap that no one follows unless you have some obnoxious flight crew or was too much work for them.

 

I know KT threw up on Korean Air a couple of years ago and the flight attendants came running over and helped clean me and her up and went WAY beyond the call of duty! No crazy rules or anything and that was also an international flight.

 

 

He made it all into the bag, so it's not like it would have been any extra work for them at all. He just needed to simply throw the bag in the trash... or dump the contents down the toilet. It was like they were punishing him for being a bad boy and throwing up on a plane. Truly, it almost seemed like they were bullying him.

 

I'd like to exclaim "I'm never flying Delta again!", but it was €432 for a round trip from Hamburg to MSP, which is an unbeatable price. I guess you get what you pay for as far as service goes!

[rosscoe]

I work as a flight attendant (Long Haul ) and there is no way I would allow anyone to sit with a bag of vomit for eight hours. Putting the bag in lav is not the best idea and I would stop someone from doing that, but thats what the rubbish bins in the bathrooms are for.