Sewage flows down aisles of trans-Atlantic flight

Source: King5.com

Passengers on a Continental Airlines flight had to hold their noses for hours as sewage overflowed from toilets while they were high over the Atlantic.

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(Passenger Collin Brock)
It was last Wednesday afternoon when his flight left Amsterdam, but roughly two hours into it, the passengers were told the lavatories were out of commission. An unplanned landing in Shannon, Ireland was made to fix the problem.

A pit stop became an overnight stay. The next day, the same plane headed for its original destination of Newark, New Jersey, but just after takeoff, the sewage overflow began. This time, there was no turning around.

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He says was there was one half-working restroom on the plane for the more than 200 people onboard.

He also says the flight attendants - who were serving meal service in a stinky, unappetizing cabin - told everyone to not eat or drink too much.


Read more: http://www.king5.com/topstories/stories/NW_061907WAB_continental_sewage_flight_TP.1cc511cf.html

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Ewwww yuck! And if they can't even maintain the friggin toilets it doesn't give me much confidence about the rest of the plane! I don't know about the rest of you, but I've lost my enthusiasm for travelling by air for quite awhile now.

Looks like a bad week for airline PR. Today we have the United computer glitch delaying flights. Then.

SFO nightmare -- 400 stuck on plane 7 hours

Nearly 400 passengers were stranded aboard a Cathay Pacific Airways jet for more than seven hours Tuesday at San Francisco International Airport, adding yet another planeload of angry consumers to a growing industry backlash.

Passengers boarded Flight CX873 to Hong Kong just after midnight Tuesday for a 1:20 a.m. departure. But the Boeing 747 never left the gate.

"We sat there three hours before they said anything," said Mark Valenta, a newlywed for whom the flight was to have been the start of a dream honeymoon to Asia. "Then the PA system went down, the lights were going on and off, babies were crying. It was a nightmare."

And it lasted the entire night.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/06/20/MNGSLQIDEN1.DTL

Passengers Spend 5 Hours On Plane At LaGuardia

Stormy weather in the Northeast had led to canceled and delayed flights at all local area airports, hundreds being stranded at LaGuardia, John F. Kennedy and Newark Liberty airports, and frustrated passengers sitting for hours on planes that never took off.

Passenger Alice Norris, who was trying to fly to Cincinnati from LaGuardia Airport, said, "We sat on the plane for five hours on the tarmac, and all they gave us was a glass of water and a granola bar," Norris said.

Norris tried to find a hotel room to spend the night, "But there were no hotel rooms anywhere. They were fully booked," she said.

So instead, she bought a toothbrush and pillow at an overpriced airport store, and joined hundreds of other people sleeping in stiff, plastic chairs, on linoleum floors or in paper-thin cots supplied by the airports.

http://wcbstv.com/topstories/local_story_171055003.html

Those passengers deserve free flights for life.

you are right. The pilot should have returned to the airport.

nt

:puke::puke::puke:

And those poor flight attendants. Again, :puke:.

but it doesn't sound like the customers are going to get any compensation other than the usual "customer care" kit -- a token and often worthless discount on a future flight

if i hear differently later, i'll come back and post but so far pax are just reporting receiving this "customer care" kit

they were actually told to "go" before boarding the plane, so they apparently did have some warning...

update--okay, some pax got a $500 voucher good for a future flight, that's pretty decent, assuming you would ever want to fly CO again

No excuse for this, that I can think of.

;)

Picture of a skunk on the toilet with the caption
Sometimes I just sit and think
Sometimes I just sit and stink

What? :shrug:

Have a nice flight!

I've received dirty looks with crying kids, I can't imagine the dirty looks from causing that fiasco.

yuck.

you know the ones that can do "it better and more efficiently". Like the privitized baggage handling at SeaTac in Seattle.