Smelly pax kicked off Jazz flight
Feb 19, 2010, 7:50 am
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Feb 19, 2010, 8:11 am
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Another passenger described the smell as "brutal."
Feb 19, 2010, 4:08 pm
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Some airlines actually DO have a specific policy on body odors.
Feb 19, 2010, 6:42 pm
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Wasn't this an episode of that Southwest Airlines TV show? I seem to recall that they made a pax go change his clothes before they would let him board because he smelled so badly.
Feb 19, 2010, 8:25 pm
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All I can say is, I"m so glad this was done!
Feb 20, 2010, 7:41 am
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Oo! I was flying home from Germany and several (5?), presumably Russian, men boarded and walked past my seat. Yikes! Yes, it was brutal. (I was told they were Russians, I don't know absolutely. I appologize to any Russians reading this. )
....This was in 1990.
....This was in 1990.
Feb 20, 2010, 6:28 pm
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The most redolent flight I ever took was a French semi-charter airline which I caught at LAX on its way to Tahiti, but which had been carrying several hundred French passengers for 9 hours already. Phew!
Feb 20, 2010, 7:23 pm
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Feb 21, 2010, 12:27 pm
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Flying in an old Air India 747 was the pits.
Feb 22, 2010, 7:45 am
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I note in the story that he was ‘An American flying to Prince Edward Island’. I was in that very place last October and was unfortunate to get into a lift that had just discharged a large group of American ‘seniors’. Of course, you are a captive audience in a very limited airspace with next to no ventilation, travelling up seven floors. Now that was really a brutal smell. (Dental decay and urine if you must know).
Feb 24, 2010, 10:15 pm
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Great to see the potential "medical issue" excuse being raised on that report. So what medical issue results in someone stinking like a six-month old Gouda?
Feb 25, 2010, 1:54 pm
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Ugh. I once boarded a CO 777 from IAH to LGW... my hubby and I had chosen the center 3 (yes, it was Y) with the hope that no one would take the center seat. Unfortunately these were the days before CO made it clear to their check-in agents that they should leave elite seats free and fill up the back.
We arrived at our row and found a very friendly African man in the center seat, smiling happily. My heart sank as I sat down and was immediately accosted by the stong stench of dung. It was as if he had rolled in poo right before he boarded.
About 5 minutes later my savior arrived, resplendent in non-stinky blue jeans and a cashmere sweater. "I'm sorry, I think you're in my seat," said the stick-thin young lady to the stinky man.
He moved back two rows to curse someone else, the nice thin girl with no odor sat down between us, and then the FA came by later and said "there are lots of aisle and window seats in the back if you want to spread out" and the girl in the middle bolted.
That was a good day.
We arrived at our row and found a very friendly African man in the center seat, smiling happily. My heart sank as I sat down and was immediately accosted by the stong stench of dung. It was as if he had rolled in poo right before he boarded.
About 5 minutes later my savior arrived, resplendent in non-stinky blue jeans and a cashmere sweater. "I'm sorry, I think you're in my seat," said the stick-thin young lady to the stinky man.
He moved back two rows to curse someone else, the nice thin girl with no odor sat down between us, and then the FA came by later and said "there are lots of aisle and window seats in the back if you want to spread out" and the girl in the middle bolted.
That was a good day.
Feb 25, 2010, 2:02 pm
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Ugh. I once boarded a CO 777 from IAH to LGW... my hubby and I had chosen the center 3 (yes, it was Y) with the hope that no one would take the center seat. Unfortunately these were the days before CO made it clear to their check-in agents that they should leave elite seats free and fill up the back.
We arrived at our row and found a very friendly African man in the center seat, smiling happily. My heart sank as I sat down and was immediately accosted by the stong stench of dung. It was as if he had rolled in poo right before he boarded.
About 5 minutes later my savior arrived, resplendent in non-stinky blue jeans and a cashmere sweater. "I'm sorry, I think you're in my seat," said the stick-thin young lady to the stinky man.
He moved back two rows to curse someone else, the nice thin girl with no odor sat down between us, and then the FA came by later and said "there are lots of aisle and window seats in the back if you want to spread out" and the girl in the middle bolted.
That was a good day.
We arrived at our row and found a very friendly African man in the center seat, smiling happily. My heart sank as I sat down and was immediately accosted by the stong stench of dung. It was as if he had rolled in poo right before he boarded.
About 5 minutes later my savior arrived, resplendent in non-stinky blue jeans and a cashmere sweater. "I'm sorry, I think you're in my seat," said the stick-thin young lady to the stinky man.
He moved back two rows to curse someone else, the nice thin girl with no odor sat down between us, and then the FA came by later and said "there are lots of aisle and window seats in the back if you want to spread out" and the girl in the middle bolted.
That was a good day.
I'm sure she thinks of that FA as her saviour as to her dismay she had to sit down next two passangers who smelt like poo.
Feb 26, 2010, 7:37 am
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I was on LH (A340-500) YYZ-DUS on the aisle and this large fellow who only spoke Polish and was wearing short sleeves and no undershirt sat in the next seat. He was already sweaty and smelly - I wanted to offer him an undershirt - it got worse. I had ear plugs and a blindfold for my planned sleep. Unfortunately I didn't have a nose plug and it was a truly sickening experience. When I reclined the seat to get away from him there was a fellow in the seat behind me who started kicking the seat and screaming that I am not to recline the seat because he is there! LH should have deplaned both of them. I arrived in the worst shape I have ever been in after a flight. There should be on-board showers.