Delta passenger claims he had to sit in dog poop during flight

nypost.com ^ | November 6, 2018 | Yaron Steinbuch

[lowbridge]

“I sit in my seat and I immediately smell something, and I thought, ‘Not another flight that smells bad,’” Matthew Meehan of Bay City, Michigan, told Yahoo Lifestyle of last Thursday’s flight from hell.

“I realized the person next to me also had their nose covered,” he continued. “And then I went to take my charger out, bent down completely to charge my phone and realized it’s not just a smell, it’s actually feces and it’s all over the back of my legs, it’s all over the floor, all over the wall of the plane.”

He and the fellow flier rushed over to the front of the plane to notify the flight attendants, whose response to the biohazard left him stunned.

“The flight crew said, ‘Are you kidding me? We turned that in. I can’t believe they didn’t clean it.’ They knew it was there,” said Meehan, a top-tier Diamond member of Delta’s Medallion program, which the airline says “provides opportunities to fly more comfortably.”

“The Delta representative that spoke with me after the fact told me their protocol is to have a biohazard kit onboard,” he said.

“The fact that they either didn’t take it down and offer me something from it to clean myself properly or it was absent completely from the plane broke protocol either way. They said they didn’t have one.”

[lowbridge]

You're finished! No more Delta! You've bought it this time, buster! I will call your national office! I will revoke your charter! 

[FlingWingFlyer]

If the “democrats” take the House, you might as well get used to it. You’re gonna be sitting in lots of dog poop.

[NorthMountain]

Fat, drunk, and covered with dog**** is no way to go through life, son ...

[circlecity]

They use that to make San Francisco residents feel at home.

[gathersnomoss]

Pffaaapp. A sh*ty flight out of sh*ty SF?

[lee martell]

Beyond disgusting.
I’m generalizing, but I’ll bet if this happened to a female passenger, she would have gotten a more compassionate response from the flight crew. The old notion is that men just have to deal with temporary discomfort.

There is also the fact of the Flight Attendant’s vanity.
Most people know that Flight Attendants hate being disagreed with or told what to do by a mere ticket holder in the Economy Class. “This plane is not big enough for the both of us!”

[blueunicorn6]

Yeah, but you get an extra 50 skymiles.

[lee martell]

All this bring a pet to the airport stuff needs to be walked back, way back. It’s gotten out of hand.
I’ve even heard of miniature horses being allowed on board.
Horses are well known for being very efficient in clearing their bowels. Anytime, anywhere.

[a fool in paradise]

Maybe someone just got divorced

[bgill]

But did they deliver you to the right airport?

[Flick Lives]

...Meehan, a top-tier Diamond member of Delta’s Medallion program, which the airline says “provides opportunities to fly more comfortably.”

Thank goodness he's a Diamond Medallion member. That ensures he gets the fresh dog poop.

[dinodino]

“Sorry for the inconvenience, Sir. Delta Air Lines would like to offer you 5000 SkyPesos as compensation. Thank you for flying Delta.”

[dinodino]

Haha, precisely. If he was a Silver, it would have been old and dried up.

[C210N]

But, I bet he was sure glad he didn’t step in it.

[bigbob]

Yep, people in the cheap seats get to sit in poop from dogs that are fed Old Roy.

[piasa]

1. How do you NOT see dog crap on a seat, bulkhead, whatever before you sit down?

2. How does he know it’s dog crap and not human ….

[LostInBayport]

When Meehan asked the flight crew for an explanation, he said they told him that cleaning the mess wasn’t their responsibility and that they were busy getting ready for departure.

“If you want, you can get off the plane and talk to somebody,” he said he was told.

The gate agent called a manager, whom Meehan described as confrontational.

“I tell her what happened and she said, ‘If the cleaning crew didn’t do their job, that’s not my problem. What do you want me to do about it?’” Meehan said.

The airlines have come to resemble a government agency. Their service is poor, their employees don't care and the agency knows the public will keep funding it.

[ml/nj]

NO ANIMALS ON AIRPLANES!

If they won't fly at 2000 feet to accommodate me for the three months I cannot fly because of my recent lung surgery, I don't see why they have to accommodate other people. I'll be taking a 24 hour train ride (each way) in a week or so, and probably again the following month.

ML/NJ

[piasa]

Could have been a liberal sitting there before him, I hear they ooze surplus crap all the time.