Family kicked off airplane due to 'bad odor'

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I suspect traveling with a kid had more to do with it.
How was the kid behaved prior to the flight?

Everyone is a little sweaty by the time they have gotten through airport security. It is not the body sweat, more using too much perfume

Some eperienced travelers stop by a duty free shop after security and spritz a little perfume or cologne from the sample bottles.

[Anonymous]

Will this lead to a new seating section on planes?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Will this lead to a new seating section on planes?

For what ?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is mostly in response to the post about the Nigerian family who thought they were being discriminated against. BO is a cultural difference Americans feel justified in not tolerating. Foreigners should know that not only do we dislike body odor, we judge people over it, and will treat you differently because of it. It's different than say, if you call a shopping cart a trolly, or if you make an awkward social faux pas, or wear clothes we don't. Exposing others to your body odor is truly offensive here, in that it makes people physically ill.

I think this latest example actually proves it's not discrimination, it's the bad odor.

Except the people discussed are not ‘foreigners’ unless you consider them as such

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:They are very obviously ultra-orthodox. If the airline decided to remove them from the plane probably they weighted the chances to be sued by other passengers vs being sued for discrimination. I second other people opinion, traveling with kids sometimes put you in ‘smelly situation’. Maybe the kid vomited or had an accident earlier.

Are you suggesting that people can’t reek of foul body odor on their own? Have you ever travelled to a third world country?

Third world country ?? How about you stick to this country and it’s legions of smelly douchebags?

Americans as a group are pretty good with daily showers and deoderant.

Not really

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Smells like anti-semitism. Probably a MAGA freak made the complaint.

Your stupidity and hate truly stinks.

[Anonymous]

The article says they were separated from their suitcases (checked luggage), but they still could have had clean clothes in their carryon. They also had a chance to shower and hand launder their clothes overnight. I have washed my family’s clothes in the sink and shower, used the blow dryer and iron to speed drying on the heavier garments and drip dried the lighter ones. There must have been a consensus among the crew that the stench was bad.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is anyone on this thread, outside of the rare voice of reason, actually a DC urban mom or dad? It’s like watching a slow-motion alt-right train wreck. And yet, I can’t look away. Anyway, serious question: Can anyone point me to previous incidents in which a family or individual has been kicked off an airline flight for body odor before?

There used to be a show called Airline that was a docuseries about Southwest Airlines staff. They had an episode where there was a woman (I want to say she was Indian or Pakistani?) and the people sitting next to her in the waiting area complained (discreetly) to the gate agent about her smell. It turned out that she had just been traveling for a really long time (trains and planes and delays, etc). They very kindly got her some deodorant and a place to wash up etc, but they were pretty clear with her that she would not be able to board the plane otherwise. She was embarrassed, but grateful and apologetic.


I just can not ever imagine going public after being told I smelled to bad to get on a flight. I would be hiding in shame not telling the whole world!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As a European living in US I find that usually in US there is a general germophobia. Hey, most parts of the world shower 1-2 times per week or even less..

And they stink. Bathing shouldn't be optional.

[Anonymous]

I travel a lot in 3rd world countries (although Europeans often smell like BO too). I thought I’d seen it all but the worst was in turkey. A woman wearing maybe 5 layers of clothes had a stench so bad it turned people’s stomachs. People did vomit on the plane due to the smell. Every time she walked past us to use the bathroom we gagged. Washing up wouldn’t have worked because I think it was the clothes. People complained but because it was an international flight with so many languages people mostly kept silent.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is mostly in response to the post about the Nigerian family who thought they were being discriminated against. BO is a cultural difference Americans feel justified in not tolerating. Foreigners should know that not only do we dislike body odor, we judge people over it, and will treat you differently because of it. It's different than say, if you call a shopping cart a trolly, or if you make an awkward social faux pas, or wear clothes we don't. Exposing others to your body odor is truly offensive here, in that it makes people physically ill.

I think this latest example actually proves it's not discrimination, it's the bad odor.

Except the people discussed are not ‘foreigners’ unless you consider them as such

My point exactly. In the US, we dislike stink, whether you're American born or not.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Will this lead to a new seating section on planes?

Yes, on the wings.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I travel a lot in 3rd world countries (although Europeans often smell like BO too). I thought I’d seen it all but the worst was in turkey. A woman wearing maybe 5 layers of clothes had a stench so bad it turned people’s stomachs. People did vomit on the plane due to the smell. Every time she walked past us to use the bathroom we gagged. Washing up wouldn’t have worked because I think it was the clothes. People complained but because it was an international flight with so many languages people mostly kept silent.

When I was in engineering college at UMCP we would get new foreign students who were literally like this. They would come in wearing the same unlaundered clothes every day too so they just got stinkier and stinkier. Eventually they learned- not sure how exactly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is anyone on this thread, outside of the rare voice of reason, actually a DC urban mom or dad? It’s like watching a slow-motion alt-right train wreck. And yet, I can’t look away. Anyway, serious question: Can anyone point me to previous incidents in which a family or individual has been kicked off an airline flight for body odor before?

There used to be a show called Airline that was a docuseries about Southwest Airlines staff. They had an episode where there was a woman (I want to say she was Indian or Pakistani?) and the people sitting next to her in the waiting area complained (discreetly) to the gate agent about her smell. It turned out that she had just been traveling for a really long time (trains and planes and delays, etc). They very kindly got her some deodorant and a place to wash up etc, but they were pretty clear with her that she would not be able to board the plane otherwise. She was embarrassed, but grateful and apologetic.


I just can not ever imagine going public after being told I smelled to bad to get on a flight. I would be hiding in shame not telling the whole world!

Ditto. No way I would ever tell anyone.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:What about people who fart all the time? It is usually White women who have the stinkiest farts and if you are stuck in an airplane with them on a transatlantic flight you are doomed.

it's not our fault it's our diets have you ever mixed two weeks of kale salads with stress potato chips and gummy bears at the airport

lol don't forget the LaCroix and Diet Coke creates gas bubbles.