To be amazed this family were allowed on the flight (Ryanair)

@likeafishneedsabike

Hell would freeze over before I would take an actively vomiting child on a plane. We would be straight home (or at least one parent and child would go home while the rest of the family flew).

Exactly. Seriously what the actual fuck was going on here? So bad on all fronts

I agree, most likely to be a sickness bug if it’s a child repeatedly vomiting also with a fever. Surely it’s better for that one family to have their holiday delayed then put the holidays of countless other families at risk. Also what if the child had deteriorated mid flight and needed medical assistance

My mum used to get air sickness like car sickness, she always vomited on flights. I vomited every day of my pregnancy, and at completely random times too. People are going to be sick on and before flights sometimes for all different reasons so having a blanket rule about not allowing people who are vomiting on a flight isn't realistic.

My (21yo) son was sick on last of his holiday - wasn’t fit to fly as vomiting. Informed insurance company who said he needed to see a doctor. The doctor gave an unfit to fly document but told him he should have gone to the airport and they would have given him an injection to stop him vomiting for long enough to fly! He was exploding at both ends… was he really meant to go on a flight like that? Turned out it was a bug as we ended up getting it too. So he could have infected the whole flight!

But you were on the flight and had taken off when you started vomiting

This is astounding - I can’t believe they allowed that poor kid to board the plane. I can only speak for myself but if that happened to my son I would be freaking out - I wouldn’t have even got as far as the check in desk if he was running a fever. He’d be at home, not about to board a fucking plane. I honestly don’t understand some people. And how horrendous for everybody else, crew included.

Awful judgement call, including the lack of judgement made by the parents. I bet the rest of the passengers spent the next few days anxious as hell, worried that they’d come down with fucking norovirus. And they probably did, including the crew FFS

One solitary vomit could have multiple causes including nerves, reaction to a supplement, low blood sugar etc etc

Vomiting multiple times, that’s most likely a bug. Especially with a fever too.

I am very surprised he was allowed on.

Hell would freeze over before I would take an actively vomiting child on a plane. We would be straight home (or at least one parent and child would go home while the rest of the family flew).

Why do you bet other people caught something, when you didn’t and you were sitting close to him? Close enough to hear his mum commenting. Maybe it’s that he had nothing contagious. If you could tell he had a fever just by looking, offer yourself to the NHS for diagnostics, they can throw their thermometers away.

Two of my friends had kids who frequently threw up. They never really got to the bottom of why.

I once had such bad sickness on a flight to Boston they had to cordon off a toilet just for me…bad times. Didn’t realise it was a sick bug until midway through the flight, thought I was just a bit car sick. I mean what can the airline do?

You were seated very close to the family in order to have heard the mum say this?

Sums up a RyanAir flight, I’ve never been on such a disgustingly dirty form of public transport.

@nomas i agree that it would have been too much hassle to take luggage off for Ryanair as they would lose their slot.

That is my worst nightmare as I have emetophobia. Sitting here shuddering at the thought!

Disgusting behaviour on their part. Most of the time when young children are vomiting it is contagious. For all those banging on about how they’d have ruined their holiday by not boarding the flight — why is it then ok for them to ruin potentially dozens of other passenger’s holidays by boarding the plane and giving everyone else a sickness bug?!?!

Not all airlines allow it. When we checked in with Virgin Atlantic a few years ago there were signs up at Check In saying that they would try organise alternative flights if anyone was vomiting . I have a dd with emetophobia and we would have had to get off the flight if a family boarded with an obviously ill child.

Given that if you are ill on a cruise ship you are quarantined due to the speed a bug can spread in such an enclosed environment I'm amazed the airline let them fly.

There’s really not that many reasons a young child with a fever (so not overeating or a migraine or travel sickness as that wouldn’t cause a fever) would be repeatedly sick, unless it’s contagious.
There’s also the risk it’s something more serious and they deteriorate on the flight eg appendicitis. So I am surprised he was allowed on.

It could have been any health condition that causes someone to vomit.

Ugh so grim and no thought for anyone else’s holiday they were possibly going to ruin

So you don’t actually know if he had a sickness bug?

Weird his mum would announce his illness like that.

Maybe it was food poisoning. Or too much hassle to deboard them and their luggage.

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Agree

From a medical POV being known to have a contagious disease is a clear cut solid reason for the crew to deny boarding, other than that it's a judgement call by those responsible.

Could have been Noro Virus???!

If everyone's throwing up left, right and centre it's hardly nothing. They might have bounced back to normal quickly but it's not fair on other people.

But your travel insurance wouldn't cover you for a sickness bug surely? So they either go and he's fine after 48hrs or they lose their whole holiday.