What’s even worse then flying to Boston? Having to sit in an Air Tran seat soaked in someone’s urine. From WCVB TV
“I was sitting maybe 30 seconds to minute and realized that my pants were soaked,” Jennifer Castellano said.
Castellano said she went to the lavatory to check her jeans and long sweater.
“I then realized I was saturated in urine from the smell,” she said.
Castellano said a flight attendant told her someone had gone to the bathroom in the seat during the previous flight.
Jennifer Castellano told WCVB that she had to take off her urine soaked clothing and wrap herself in a blanket. She then sat in a different seat.
Upon arriving in Boston, Air Tran staff refused to retrieve her luggage. She was forced to walk through the airport wearing her blanket so she could retrieve her luggage and change into clean, urine-free clothing. The Air Tran personal claimed that it was against federal regulations for airline personnel to retrieve passenger luggage. Really? How about a federal regulation against allowing a passenger to sit in a pee soaked seat?
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Wow…that’s ridiculous. How can they have KNOWN about the urination and not done a damn thing???
This isn’t even the first time something like this has happened. I remember reading about something just like this happening a few years ago. What I don’t understand is why the woman didn’t exit the plane before it took off. I have to think that she realized she was sitting in someone’s urine BEFORE the plane took off.
Well, she may have inquired and had her request rejected. If they gave her shit about not being able to get her bag for her, they may have indicated it was too late for them to pull her bag off the plane…
I’m usually ambivalent about the struggle between airlines and passengers. I know airlines treat their customers like cattle, and that the price of an economy class seat ought to cover the cost of some DECENT food and a little common courtesy from the flight attendants (I’m looking at YOU, Northwest). I also sympathize with the airlines for having to put up with what must be some of the most unreasonable customers in existence. But it’s pretty hard not to side with a woman who was forced to wear a blanket in the airport after taking a urine bath. That’s cruel and unusual. As if airplanes weren’t already flying disease chambers full of other people’s colds, now I have to worry about other people’s excrement as well? Forget it, I’ll swim back to the US.
Airlines have degenerated to nothing more than flying Greyhound buses.