Originally Posted by avb123

Hi,

I was hopeful of some advice.

On a recent flight with my family from Orlando we boarded the plane and settled down. My son said his seat smelt funny but I thought nothing of it. A few minutes later he taps me on the shoulder and gives me a bag with sick in. I thought he had just been sick but he says he pulled it out of the seat pocket. I looked in the seat pocket and there was indeed sick in it. I took the sick off him and called over the stewardess who was mortified but as the plane was about to taxi she couldn't help me clean up.

I got read of the sick and when I came back to the seat I could see there was another sick bag on the floor which had wipes that had obviously been used to clean up sick. I explored the seat some more and his table was splattered with sick also. I started to clean up but the plane was taking off so we had to sit in the seat whilst it took off. By the time the stewardess came back over I was cleaning it all up myself. There was no other seats to move into so we were stuck there for the night flight. Naturally my kids and wife were worried the whole time about catching a bug.

I spoke to the Customer Services person who noted everything down and was very apologetic. When back in UK I fully expected an apology from BA for not cleaning the seat but nothing. I had to phone and eventually they found the report and the CS person said as a goodwill gesture he would give me 10,000 air miles. I don't want air miles, I have too many air miles. He offered the air miles to my son as well which is pointless. What really got me was that no one actually said sorry. I harassed them a bit on Twitter and someone said they would write directly to my son to apologise, this was OK in my book and should have bought the matter to a close. Again there was no sorry in the letter.. just some nonsense about investing in specialist cleaning equipment (like checking if a seat pocket is dirty?).

So the advice I am after is that BA have not actually said sorry. No acknowledgment at all that they did not clean the seat. The wording is all very particular, 'I am sure this experience was distressing', ' I understand it was upsetting', but no actual sorry. Is there any way I can make this happen? Has anyone actually got BA to say sorry? I checked to take the dispute to CEDR but they do not cover this type of incident.

I have not accepted the airmiles, nor will I. I won't be flying with them again after the next flight which is already paid for (which I asked if they would let me cancel and waive the fees .... they said no!).

Cheers