This surprising thing can actually get you kicked off a flight
There are a lot of reasons passengers get removed from flights but you might be surprised to discover that this is one of them.
Allison Wallace - Yahoo7 Be
You might think being too drunk or abusive would be high on the list but being too smelly?
According to the contract of carriage and several airlines around the globe, you will not be allowed on the plane if you “have an offensive odour.”
hink this is ridiculous? Then just ask the man forced off an Air Canada jet a few years back for exuding what one fellow passenger described as a “brutal” aroma.
At the time Jazz Air spokeswoman Manon Stuart confirmed that a passenger was "deplaned" from the flight, but she could not provide specific information about the person involved or the reason why he was asked to leave because of privacy issues.”
"As an airline, the safety and comfort of our passengers and crew are our top priorities. Therefore, any situation that compromises either their safety or comfort is taken seriously, and in such circumstances, the crew will act in the best interest of the majority of our passengers," Stuart said.
The rule is written into American Airlines’ conditions of carriage, right next to other undesirable behaviours such as being under the influence of drugs or alcohol, being armed with a dangerous weapon, and being violent or abusive.
American established this policy in 1999 after it tried to deplane a family when passengers complained of a "noxious odour."
The family sued the airline and settled out of court. Soon afterward, the carrier wrote a body-odour policy into its customer-service contract.
A number of other airlines have similar rules, including Virgin Australia, which states it can refuse carriage of baggage “because of any odour it emits”.
Other airlines, like British Airways, don't have official body-odour policies, but they do have procedures for dealing with offensive flyers.
"It's a very sensitive subject, so we don't put it in our contracts of carriage, but our customer-service people are well trained to deal with it," says British Airways spokesman John Lampl.
They attempt to correct the problem at the source, doling out first-class pajamas and amenity kits with toiletries to odorous flyers. "We ask them to go to the bathroom and wash up," Lampl says.
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