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

[sickflight87]

We were flying with Ryanair last week to go on holiday.

Before boarding the plane, we heard them calling cleaners to our boarding gate. As we got closer, there was a young boy who had been sick all over the floor. He clearly had a fever and wasn't well at all.

We boarded the plane, and you guessed it, the family were sat really near us. Before the plane even took off, he was sick 2 more times.

During the flight, he was sick every hour. The Mum said 'it is such a shame he has a bug at the start of our holiday'.

I am just amazed that he was allowed to fly when visibly unwell with a sickness bug.

I am absolutely amazed we didn't catch it but I bet other people did. I thought it was SO unfair that he was allowed to fly, potentially infecting so many people on that plane and ruining holidays people have looked forward to all year. I know kids aren't allowed to fly with chickenpox, so why can they with a sickness bug?

Anxiety can be a disability.

But my son has a disability that makes him vomit. It's exacerbated by anxiety and her gets anxious in new situations and traveling, because of his autism, which is also a disability.

Pure stupidity on Ryanair’s part- imagine he’d lost consciousness or gotten really weak in the middle of the flight. People are awful just to save money (from someone who cancelled a holiday and lost money because I had Covid before anyone says anything!!)

TBH you'd be amazed at the number of people who lose consciousness/become ill in flight for all sorts of reasons, and often with pretty much zero prior warning.

The only way the airlines have of avoiding that risk entirely is to not carry passengers...

Are you sure that his mother said he had a bug or is that ad add on for the shock factor? I doubt they’d let him on with a bug, there was obviously something else going on.

He enjoys holidays once we're at our destination. And it seems unfair that he and his siblings miss out on stuff because he is a bad traveller.

Exactly.

This comes back to something I mentioned a while back: in the case in question if the gate staff said nothing to the crew and there was nothing obviously wrong at the door there's no reason to deny boarding.

If the problem only manifested itself on taxy out or later it's (as a pp.mentioned) a decision down to the occupant of 0A as to what to do, possibly/probably having take remote medical advice.

Ewww this brings me out in a panic!!!! Absolutely not being unreasonable at all xx

notimagain

but that’s not the case here, fair enough people might not look sick but if you see someone vomiting or unsteady or extremely unwell looking then it should be zero tolerance

I wasn't there so don't have the full picture but you're going to have least cut the airline/crew a bit of slack and maybe accept it won't have been their first rodeo when it comes to handling people being ill

Throwing up before travelling is not sitting next to someone for hours throwing up. Unless it’s not just before but goes on throughout?

Why are you excecised over this? You didn't catch anything. So calm down.

The same who have cold virus , I now have chest infection after return flight .There were several people coughing sneezing , after 48hrs home yes I now have it , why are people so selfish , wear a mask 😷

Coughing and sneezing I would take any day over the sound of heaving, retching , vomiting and the smells!!!

plus risk of the toilet blocking and toilet being out of action as one poster said upthread

Bit early in the AM for this but given what aircraft toilets are designed to cope with and have to endure on every flight what's the thinking behind the idea that someone vomiting increases the risk of one becoming blocked?

Upthread
someone said they blocked the toilet with their extreme vomiting
not something you’d fib about I imagine when talking about you being the culprit!

If a nurse or HCP vomits they have to be off work for 2 days regardless. Same as kids and school. Why should an aircraft be different?

I'm sorry but this is just not true. I agree that it's revolting to be on a plane with anyone who is obviously very unwell. But many young children vomit on airplanes due to motion sickness. My child suffers migraines and vomits when they get one. All of these things have happened on planes, sometimes repeatedly on a single flight. None of them are contagious.

Actually that’s a good point

Fair enough but there are multiple toilets, and given how many people get airsick (sadly it will probably be greater than one on a Longhaul flght) the systems are designed to be able to generally cope.

I get many of the objections being raised because of the situation described by the OP but the airlines and manufacturers have been coping with these sort of issues (SWIDT) for years.

There has been the odd instance of flights having to divert because the whole toilet system/systems have failed but it's unusual and is more likely due to a mechanical problem with the plumbing rather than the system being overloaded.