While cycles vary, a standard period occurs every month, but preparing for them can be difficult. So what are travellers supposed to do if “that time of the month” strikes while on a flight? And are Kiwis’ commonly used airlines prepared to help? When Iman Orths asked cabin crew on an easyJet flight for sanitary pads as she began heavily bleeding, she was shocked to be told the airline couldn’t help her. “I’m heavily on my period and I’ve forgotten extra pads and I need one right now and they don’t have them on the plane – unless cabin crew have them,” the British-based model and music artist said in a TikTok video.
Orths, who was filming herself on the 2.5-hour flight from London to Palma de Mallorca in Spain, said in the video that none of the staff (three men and one woman) had any on them so was told to ask fellow passengers, which she was reluctant to do as she was bleeding. “I can’t go over the whole plane,” she said.
@easyJet don’t keep emergency sanitary products on planes!?? come onnn think of women pls it’s 2024 🫠 #feminist #periodshame #storytime.
