Wheeeeeee
Posted on 09/06/2023 10:44:54 PM PDT by jimtorr
The conditions while traveling with passenger airlines have seemingly been getting worse year after year. While unruly passengers have been partly stifled by harsher enforcement and punishments, there are plenty of legitimate grievances to get angry about. A pair of passengers were escorted off of a recent Air Canada flight for refusing to sit in vomit-stained seats.
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I would refuse to sit in those seat myself.
In 1998 I had to fly on business to Colorado Springs, in coach. The person in the seat next to mine was very large, and flowed over into half of my seat. I did not bother pushing said his fat, turned back to the aircraft door and asked for either another seat or off the plane.
One of the stewardesses went to check on my complaint. I was given another seat without having to return to my assigned seat. I doubt that would happen today.
First problem: Flew Air Canada.
There were no other seats available...
you can’t fly standing up in the aisle.
Air Canada
2021: Wear the COVID mask or you’ll be kicked off the plane.
2023: Sit in this vomit-stained seat or you’ll be kicked off the plane.
What a difference a couple of years make.
The airline that gave AIDS to the world.
Ah yes, the male stewardess if memory serves
And a joke about air Canada and peril sensitive paint.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/78215847@N00/2235078440
Sounds like Air Canada has all the subtle nuance of Justin Castro Trudeau. Take lots of evidence and sue that POS airline.
Extra leg room: $25 surcharge. Exit aisle seat: $25 surcharge. No-vomit guarantee: $25 surcharge.
Then passengers could avoid this problem from the get-go, by always paying the requisite surcharge!
Problem solved!
Regards,
So sit down in the aisle, there’s plenty to hold onto.
You can just stand up and get out of the way when the steward or stewardess comes along.
About 10 years ago, I flew a 9-hour flight overseas, and the airline had offered me ‘more’ leg-room...at a $75 cost. I declined....thinking it wasn’t a big deal. They put me into a cramped-up seat at the rear, which had 3 inches less leg-room than a normal seat. The $75 extra seat? That was what was formerly accepted as a normal seat.
Needless to say....on the return flight, I paid the $75 extra, but that was the final flight with that airline.
Or any airline?
I would expect that, nowadays, they are all guilty of such shenanigans.
Regards,
Some airlines (particularly those int’l carriers like Icelandic Air and Finn Air) don’t get into this type of stupid behavior. Jet Blue and SW Airlines still offer 32-inch legroom. Japan Airways offers 33/34 inch leg room. Singapore Airways offers 32 to 34 inch leg room.
I would suggest you have to do research, be picky about who you travel with, and be thoughtful over consequences.
The problem in the US is that most airlines have gone to a cattle-car operation, and really don’t care about you as a consumer. It’s like Trailways got into the airline business, and you have a quarter of the crowd who have personal issues, or walk into the airport wearing flip-flops and marginal clothing.
That was back in the days, when overbooking was not the rule of airline financial survival.
Now a days, most plans are full or overflowing.
Having the air crew trying to hid what they did, should warrant some kind of sanction from the Canadian equivalent to the FAA.
Wheeeeeee
I remember a time when commercial businesses attempted to attract and keep customers with appealing products or good service.
I have a question for the knee-jerk airline bashers.
The flight was full. The two passengers (rightfully so) refused to sit in a puked up seat. There were no other seats. What should the airline have done? Just sat there with two people standing in the aisle indefinitely?
I highly suspect the two passengers were well accommodated on another flight. If not, I guarantee it was their attitude causing the problems.
An airline has a bunch of tools available to deal with this exact scenario. There is a whole different side of this story than that of two disgruntled passengers.
EC
It’s surprising that the airline doesn’t have replacement t seat cushions readily available for swap-out. This is t the first time a seat cushion got soiled. Especially with the “Mr. Explosive Diarrhea” story last week.
That’s so last century.
Exactly. No telling what other haphazard, slipshod maintenance the crew provides to compromise safety.
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