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?

Usually 4 toilets
Hundreds of passengers

It is thoughtless
it is deeply unpleasant for those around
even if not contagious, it can often lead to others vomiting due to the sounds and smells

and it can result in a toilet being either occupied by the vomiter for the flight OR even the risk of getting blocked as evidenced upthread

I have children who get severe motion sickness. Medication won’t even knock at the edge of it. I am the same. It always worries me that we may be denied boarding because of this. We all take our extreme travel sickness as the price of travelling. Recently after a delay we were made to change planes and she was also visibly with a bag as the motion sickness lasts for us all. I’m was worried we be denied boarding. Once during a long haul flight when quite young she did vomit unexpectedly over a seat (my seat). They change all the fabric on the seat - you wouldn’t have known it happened. We have been offered medical assistance on board also by air crew - but it’s just motion sickness and she is the same in cars (can manage buses). I cannot manage buses.

? And?

The question is how "safe" from all loos being blocked do you want to be/are you prepared to pay for?

Short haul it's typically 3 or 4 toilets for about 200 pax or less.

Longhaul,.widebody maybe a dozen loos plus for 400 plus pax.

That sort of ratio has generally worked for decades, and in extremis if it really hasn't it's a divert.

Not true. If you can evidence a medical reason for sickness that isn't contagious (e.g. pregnancy) you are exempt from the 48hour rule. Schools are the same.

This kid didn’t have any medical evidence -mum said a bug

morning sickness etc would be obvious. But if sick for unknown reasons they have to be 48 hours vomit free don’t they?

It's really tricky though, as my DD is a nightmare with being sick.
Has a cough - she pukes
Has a cold - she pukes
stars align in a certain way - she pukes.
And for good measure, getting worried about anything used to trigger it too (although as a teen this has now stopped).

She can get a fever for something and that triggers the sickness in her. And once she's been sick, her stomach is more sensitive for a few weeks afterwards. So can be not ill at all, but a few things can trigger a sensitivity and off she goes again.

Weve seen Drs etc. and in fairness even primary school gave up on 48 hours exclusion with her because they could see she wasn't actually ill with it.

So I do appreciate that on the occasion with his mum commenting on the bug it's definitely not ideal, those saying you shouldn't travel if you're sick isn't as clear cut as that. My travel insurance would never cover us not travelling on all of the above. And I know she's not ill.

Dd is a very travel sick child, sickness tablets help a little but not fully. I agree that those who have something contagious should avoid travelling, but it shouldn't extend to just anyone who is physically sick.

I do think there should be tighter controls on alcohol and behaviour on planes as these seem to cause a lot of trouble recently.

Oh god had this last week travelling to Spain but it was an older lady who was throwing up non stop behind me. She apparently vommed up the steps too, so I don’t understand why Ryanair let her on. She used the rear toilet the whole flight so everyone had to shuffle up front. Then she carried sick bags on the bus to the airport, one which was very clearly filled to the top! Absolutely grim but worst of all her family didn’t seem to be any help to her and kept laughing it off. Poor woman looked an awful shade of grey, not exactly up for a beach break.

Safe? I didn’t mention having a blocked bog was unsafe

just yet another possible unpleasant side effect of having a vomming passenger

If everyone is vomiting their guts up why on earth would anyone want to be going on holiday in the first place? its better to stay in bed and rest

I cant imagine anything worse than vomiting, wanting to lie down and having to travel for hours when I am only going to be laying down in a hotel room and not feeling up to doing anything anyway! Holiday is already ruined

Years ago I was on a flight and on take off the child in front threw up. I passed a sick bag through the seats to dad, assuming he was travel sick. A couple of days later my kids were ill so that was the end of our holiday, we were stuck in the hotel room trying desperately to get mine well enough to fly home.

I had a look at my own travel insurance and they'd pay for the holiday to be cancelled as long as there was a medical report that they weren't medically fit to fly. I think for a child with a vomiting bug you might need to pay for a private GP to get that medical certificate.

Yes ,but now have a horrible chest infection. Had I been abroad then my holiday would be a disaster, at least a stomach bug last 48hr max. So for me , over it faster than bronchitis. Thats my preference anyway.

I would prefer to have been seated next to you than someone spewing their guts up

Feel horrible after two weeks of coughing , sore throat 😫