Qantas has issued an apology and refund to a passenger who had to endure eight hours sitting in someone else’s vomit after a passenger on the previous leg became violently ill. Keira Connell was on her way home to Sydney from Singapore where she, her husband and five-year-old daughter spent a week on holiday. The Airbus A380 departed from London and stopped in Singapore on Saturday where the family boarded the red-eye flight.
When the trio took to their seats at the front of the aircraft near the toilets, Keira said she immediately noticed a foul smell. “I said to staff straight away that the plane absolutely stinks and they told me it was subjected to a deep clean and also sprayed,” Keira told news.com.
au. But it wasn’t until the plane was taxiing to the runway that things took a dire turn. Keira, who was wearing a skirt, said she felt “something wet” on her leg.
“I asked my husband if our little one spilt water or something on my seat and he said ‘no’. “Once the seatbelt sign was turned off, I got up and wiped the seat.” She noticed something “pink” stuck to her leg.
“I feel disgusting saying this – when I pulled the back of my skirt to the front to see what It was, I noticed I had something pink on me and when I looked at my hand my husband said ‘that’s vomit’. “That person’s vomit must have hit the floor and splattered up. “I went to the bathroom to wash my hands and the carpet was all wet and the bathroom also stunk.
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