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

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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?

I agree it’s not nice for anyone x

But in this case it was a bug, admitted by the mum

We caught a bug from a woman two rows in front of us flying out to Spain last year. My DD was still being sick the day we flew home, I called our travel insurance and they said to not let staff see her be sick before the flight as we wouldn't be allowed on. I took her to the pharmacy to get anti sickness medication. She's only 4 so it was not easy, but she wasn't sick on the flight and we made it home thank god. I would never travel out to a holiday with a vomiting child!!!

I would have rebooked the flights 100%

That is fucking disgusting and I can't believe people would fly with a vomiting child. Incredibly selfish and also just fully miserable for the child!

There may be multiple reasons for vomiting, but an actively vomiting passenger should not be allowed on a flight regardless of the cause. If a medical emergency happens mid-flight it causes problems for the entire flight. If you’re vomiting you should be grounded until you stop.

It's a disability. No difference to hearing and smelling someone who is incontinent of feaces due to a disability.

But depending on the cause, it won't stop! Not untill the flight is over.

This should be the airlines responsibility. They have a duty of care to the passengers and they are knowingly letting all those passengers fly exposed to a bug. Either they should have a policy that someone actively vomiting isn't allowed board and given another flight 48 hours later, or they get a refund for genuine illness. Or they have a separate area for sick people, even a tiny corner away from the seats. But of course they don't, since when has Ryanair cared about their customers. I'd feel bad for the poor kid and the parents but it's understandable they didn't cancel their holiday too, it's not like they would get a refund.

If this was a blanket rule it would affect women most, as women in early pregnancy as so susceptible to vomiting. Pg women would be afraid to travel for fear of vomiting at the airport and losing their flights or holiday if they were stopped at the gates. The contagious question is very relevant IMO.

I was on a coach tour with my 95 year old Mum a couple of years ago, just after the pandemic. On the return journey, a number of other passengers were coughing, but non-e wore masks and the courier wouldn't ask them to - we did. My mum caught Covid and was very ill for weeks after.

Some people just don't care.

I remember that, during the pandemic, you would get your temperature taken before you boarded a plane. Shame they still don't do that.

If one were cynical, you might say it’s because if you’re unwell and passing it on to others in a cruise ship, they are stuck on there with the ill people and have to deal with the fallout, whereas on, a plane after a few hours or so and before anyone else becomes symptomatic, they get off and become someone else’s problem…..?

I'm currently on holiday in a hotel a couple of hours from home in the UK, think centre Parks type place, 2 days before we left my son woke us at night with a vomiting bug. Puked all night and I was horrified thinking our trip wasnt going to happen. Thank God he stopped puking almost exactly 48 hours before we left to drive to the hotel. I still felt worried one fi the rest of us would be incubating it but we all seemed well and I'd literally worn gloves and been on hand with dettol and wipes and not allowed anyone else near him. Thankfully none fo the rest of us are ill but there's no way we would even have come to a hotel. We'd already started planning to go. Day late and lose our first night.

I really can't believe they were allowed on the flight

Beijing. I reckon it's probably thermal imaging?

Our baby did a small milk barf right before a long haul flight, we thought nothing of it until our older one started throwing up a few hours into the flight. Cue the worst flight of our lives. We felt awful having two sick children, and exposing others to whatever this was (probably norovirus). I think my DH lost his clothes to the chemical waste bag after the older one threw up all over him while waiting to use the bathroom and there was a queue where it got on someone there too. Then we landed we were in a country where english is not the primary language with an infant who couldn't hold milk down for days. After the children got better, we got it and the expensive trip was a complete waste. If we had known, we wouldn't have done it in a million years. The family of the OP sound like they were very aware though, which is not ok.

Well yes. As the poster said, it's deeply unpleasant for others - passengers and crew.
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It's funny you saying this as it has reminded me of a time when we went to Australia and my son was young - cant remember what age but between 2 and 4 as we went a few times. Anyway my son was sick before we even got in the taxi to the airport and then was sick a number of times after this such that my partner had to buy new shorts in Dubai. Now that i read these comments i think of course it is awful but at the time we never really thought about it!

There were 5 of us going to Australia for Christmas flights booked and he was not unwell until being sick right as we left. It didnt really give us time to think is he ill, should we fly etc. We just got in the taxi and went on our way.

Our situation sounds similar to yours, but only one child being sick. Not sure if it was that trip but think we did gradually all become ill one after the other! But we did not know that at the start.

Did you know salmonella and E. Coli (common food poisoning) is contagious

We got up early one morning to leave for the airport for a transatlantic flight - three weeks holiday and visiting family planned.

I realised my four year old had vomited on the bedroom floor at some point in the night. He had no fever but was very pale and queasy. Wondering what many of the posters on this thread would have done…

Page 3 and already 3 people suffering from emetophobia… which affects 0.1% of the UK population 🙄

My youngest dd threw up in the hire car on the way back to the airport. But she wasn’t contagious, she had an ear infection!

No. Me neither but this was the advice given by a doctor at the medical centre… an injection and loperamide to stop the 💩 💩 💩

I won’t use Ryan Air anymore. Always something unpleasant.