Originally Posted by
Doc Savage
Australia may be a country that is hyper sensitive about allowing ill passengers to enter - maybe that is why the airline overreacted so radically.
This could be the issue. Aussie Customs and Immigration are Hyper sensitive indeed.
Originally Posted by
Dave Noble
I would say that after being informed that the passenger was unfit to fly, that the captain did the only thing he could reasonably be expected to do
You may be correct...
But, perhaps the captain relaying this position himself to the Original Poster would have been a better way to handle it.