Originally Posted by
desi
2. QR (and EY and EK) will get you off the plane if their senior FA contacted their docotror and the doctor on the advised offloading so to the senior FA (yes, even without that doctor even seeing or talking to the patient). And on top of it they will treat you as no-show and refund ony the taxes. Now, this may depend on the consumer protection laws of the country where incidence happens. Most flights from India to ME are about 3 hours.and most such reprted cases involve children (5 to 17) range. These are no life threatening cases needing diversions to a 3 hour flight nor these are high risk to other pax type of cases. It is simply what QR/EY/EK do to pax year after year (at least in India - do not know about other Asian or African destination)
This creates a bunch of perverse incentives:
i) Being prudent and discussing your concerns with the FAs will cause the pax to be financially punished
ii) causing a diversion probably will not (airlines may have the legal right to charge pax for the diversion, but I never heard of any case where pax causing diversion actually reimbursed the airline)
iii) <3 hour no-diversion perhaps creates another perverse incentive for the airline too - declare a medical emergency at the destination and skip the holding queue (particularly relevant for India isn't it
https://viewfromthewing.com/3-differ...landing-queue/ ?).