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Air Canada apologizes, women kicked off flight for refusing vomit-covered seats

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What a disgusting cabin crew and flight crew. The women should get attorneys and take the airline to court. How is there no response by the airline? Passengers flying Air Canada need to know which pilot found it so trivial and easy to threaten passengers who didn't want to fly in vomit-covered seats.

All the passengers on that flight who were subject to that disgusting flying environment should be refunded their tickets.

Typical Air Canada level of service and yet they have the most expensive tickets flying in/out of Canadian airports. Not to mention their workers striking every other year.

The vomit is gross, the weaponization of the no fly list is something the airline should lose it's license for.

Air Canada is on my personal no-fly-list. They are rude and their planes are old and dirty .

They treat their staff very poorly and in turn, the staff treat the customers and customer's possessions poorly. Also the CEO has somehow gone a lifetime without learning the local language.

AC is powerless.

This isn't the Corporations fault, the Pilot and Flight Attendant Union should be open to suits , that would make them behave properly. They can basically do whatever they want and the company has little power to do anything. Make the Union liable and you will see everything improve....

"the pilot came down the aisle and very calmly knelt down and told the two ladies that they had two choices: They could leave the plane on their own accord and organize flights on their own dime, or they would be escorted off the plane by security and placed on a no fly list"

So should the captain per personally liable for these threats?

The pilot has a unique power here and he really abused it.

I would sue him personally.

Ever heard of pilot unions?

This actually happened to me on United about 6 years ago. They claimed it wasn't vomit though it obviously was and tried to make me sit there instead of upgrading. Eventually they gave in.

It was a weird offhand jab to the flight attendants union at the end - this situation would seems like some job performance metric issue tied to on time departure stats. The captain & crew choices were to hold the plane for a cleanup, or offer to reschedule the flight for the boarded passengers (because really it seems like there should have been a call ahead for a cleanup crew on standby, or a reschedule of those passengers before the plane even landed).

Similar issue, different solution: https://airlive.net/news/2023/09/05/delta-flight-dl194-retur...

Airline travel is becoming more and more like some weird dystopian hellscape

Yup. https://globalnews.ca/news/9827785/passenger-sits-blood-soak...

Wow that is even worse.

Good! Flying ought to become less attractive anyway. It’s one of the biggest impact individuals have in terms of emissions prevention.

Taxation (and other regulation) would seem better than arbitrarily unsanitary conditions. Or at least more in line with other things we want to discourage.

The security theater at the airports is already often arbitrarily inconvenient and somewhat unpredictable, but I don't know if it has been shown to cause much changes in flying behavior. Price increase should have a more controllable effect, no?

Why are horrible airline experiences (ie sitting in vomit) a good way to get people to go green

Ye I am not flying anymore. I guess I would if I "had to". But the treatment you get is just not worth it. I value my dignity more than the trip and there are plenty of alternatives by land.

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