SkyWest airline apologizes to passenger forced to urinate in barf-bag
Monday, March 19th, 2007SkyWest Airlines apologized to a passenger who claims he wasn’t allowed to use the restroom during a one-hour flight and ended up emtpying his bladder in is air-sickness bag.
While on a flight to Salt Lake City on March 7, passenger James Whipple said he had two “really
big beers” at the Boise, Idaho airport, and wanted to use the cabin restroom. The captain had declared the restroom off-limits during the short flight because a light wasn’t working. Whipple said he had used the cabin restroom before the plane departed but had to go again and finally reached for the barf bag. He told Salt Lake Tribune newspaper he had no choice.
No other passengers noticed Whipple using the bag but a flight attendant asked him about it and told the captain, who called airport police. Whipple was questioned and took a taxi home.
SkyWest spokeswoman Sabrena Suite-Mangum said the airline sent him a letter of apology and a flight voucher. SkyWest decided to go ahead with the flight and have the light fixed in Salt Lake City, rather than delaying it or cancelling it for repairs. “For such a short flight, we really felt we were trying to inconvenience the least number of passengers possible by operating that flight,” Suite-Mangum added.
© The Canadian Press 2007
News info from Canada.com
Photo from Ars Technica