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?

There are lots of reasons why someone might throw up. Granted, if the parents knew it was a sickness bug in this case, they should have stayed home with their child.

I once flew back from holiday with food poisoning. It was awful. Luckily, the taxi driver dropped me off at the medical centre at the airport. They gave me something to stop the vomiting and allowed me to rest there until it was time to board my flight. It was no fun for me, either,...but I wasn't contagious.

Most likely a one and done thing. He does 4 or 5 if he’s upset about something, but excitement tends to just be one small regurgitation (it’s more liquidy than proper sick if you get me) and then done. I carry proper sick bags too, that have a scent blocker thing to stop the smell coming out.

I came back from Egypt once and I reckon half the plane had a bug. People vomiting everywhere. Queues for the toilets, attendants putting out of order signs on toilets. I wouldn’t be surprised if several people shit themselves from the smell on that plane. Worst flight ever.

Do you actually think that every destination has a daily flight?

Right so not remotely comparable to full on vomiting and multiple times

YANBU. It sounds like he was clearly suffering from a bug and shouldn't have been on a plane, for his own comfort and for the health of the other passengers.

I flew into an airport last week that had massive infrared temperature scanning arches everyone had to go through before reaching passport control. There were masked-up staff waiting to intercept anyone showing signs of illness. I imagine if this family had tried flying there they would have been quarantined. Fun for them.

My partner is a Captain, the decision is solely his as the Command. Cabin crew will have alerted the Captain to the sick child, Captain phones a medical number, describes symptoms or diagnoses (if given one whilst on holiday and seen by a Doctor) medics determine if passenger is fit to fly or if not to offload passenger and luggage before take off.

Maybe they h couldn’t and didn’t want to lose money

The airline let him fly

There is no way anyone on here saying they shouldn’t have flown, not couldn’t, shouldn’t, would’ve got off that plane, left their luggage and missed their holiday. Or tried to get another flight x2 days later. No one.

If the airline let him on they let him on.

We were flying with Ryanair

And that right there is your problem

It's totally irrelevant whether it's contagious or not. It's massively unfair on the other passengers and the cabin staff.

Ive never flown first class or with any of the more expensive airlines, but I’ve never found Ryanair to be more unpleasant than Jet2, Eastjet, Tui etc. Do you ever travel by bus or cross city trains in standard class? As some of those are pretty horrible.

Where was this? I’m reminded of the point-and-shoot type thermometers that so many places used in Covid times. I’ve had those pointed at me before I boarded a plane and on arrival.

Wow, my customers child threw up three time on the way to Thailand via Doha, they were kicked off at Doha and told to go to a hospital for a fit to fly for the next flight (not literally kicked off but were told they needed a fit to fly and that it wasn’t a bug), it was travel sickness and they put them on the next flight a couple of hours later. I can’t believe Ryan air let them on

If the child’s family knew it was sickness bug then I would agree they probably should have cancelled the holiday.

But …. I once boarded a flight with horrendous morning sickness. Puked twice before boarding and during the flight. I had to fly, it was a family emergency.

My youngest DC puked at the airport and we boarded the flight - but in her case I was 99.9999% certain she wasn’t ill and it was a one off - delayed flight, I had let the kids have too many snacks and treats while we waited for hours. Her stomach said no. She puked once, horrendously violently but then was done.

Food poisoning is (or can be) contagious. E-coli for example is passed on in vomit / poo.

I was on a flight earlier this year and a gout about 20 asked to
move to an empty aisle seat next to me. When he sat down he said he needed to be nearer to the toilet as he had a stomach bug. I was furious. I didn’t eat all flight and used anti bac hand gel all the time. I can’t believe some people’s sense of entitlement

I am sure I am not the first to say this, but it was Ryanair ...

Agree planes should refuse to board visibly I'll passenegrs unless they can produce a medical cert confirming there is no non-contagious underlying cause. Insurance should cover the cancellation / rearranging.

Yea it's shit for family of ill child. But it's better it being shit for them, rather than ruining multiple peoples holidays - anyone who is sitting near them on the plane, anyone who shares a pool / buffet / toilet with them on holiday. This is what causes things like cruise ships to close down ans have to be decontaminated, because selfish people who know they're ill insist on carrying on.

If it's a contagious bug then they shouldn't be allowed to fly but it is always hard to tell and people are also not always truthful.

Ex Cabin crew here. Worked for jet2 before I moved to Virgin Atlantic. We have diverted before due to this happening. Took off from Manchester to Corfu. Young child violently sick 3 times and we had to divert back to Manchester.
De-planed and then onwards on a new aircraft later that day. Parents were less than impressed. Tutting, sighing, aggressively shoving their belongings into their bags. Felt so sorry for the little one, they were white as a sheet & clearly unwell. I wondered how they got through check in and secuirty tbh with you.
They should've done the same.

How odd that you mention no interaction with airline staff. You didn't complain?

My eldest had travel sickness, and after the journey to the airport she’d be green, and would often be sick again en route. Always came prepared with a supply of sick bags etc. It couldn’t be helped, she was otherwise fine. It would have been pretty sad if we couldn’t have left our locality for the 5 years it took to go…Perhaps it was nothing more than that. Plenty of small children get travel sickness.

Not while they’re actively puking, no! The chances were it was a sickness bug. There’s a particularly gross and contagious one doing the rounds at the moment. Both my partner and I had it on holiday and fortunately recovered before we came home. It would have been extremely unpleasant to have to fly in that condition - not just for us but for the rest of the plane, especially as we had diarrhoea as well. Actually, I don’t think I could have.

If one of my children was repeatedly vomiting and had a fever due to a stomach bug I would not take them on an airplane unless it was unavoidable. I think the homebound flight at the end of a holiday is different because your accommodation booking has come to an end and you need to get home. The outgoing flight to get on holiday isn’t the same level of necessity. Aside from how inconsiderate it is to knowingly bring a vomiting bug onto an airplane, it is really unfair on the child. The OP said he was sick at the boarding gate, twice before take off and then repeatedly throughout the flight. I’m sure the poor child was miserable and likely wanted to be home in his own bed asleep.