FUN FACT: DO NOT PULL OUT A VOMIT BAG ON A PLANE UNTIL AFTER TAKE OFF!
I just arrived home from a magical 3 week holiday in Cyprus and The Greek Islands. Flying from AUSTRALIA to EUROPE is a very long trip and we knew it was going to be long, tiring and maybe have a few hiccups along the way - never did we think that getting kicked off the plane would be an issue for us! Arriving in Perth was very exciting! It meant that we only had two more long flights to go before finally arriving in Cyprus! Our flight from Brisbane to Perth was approximately 5 hours. Not too bad - but it had still been a long day. We had a six hour stop in Perth so we went out for dinner and spent a little bit of time in town before heading back to the airport. It was late at night and we still had 3 hours before our 11 hour flight en route to Cyprus, so my brother fell asleep. He was in a deep sleep when we woke him up to get on our plane. Walking to the plane he was like a zombie; overtired, dizzy and a bit confused. When we finally boarded the flight - he pulled out a vomit bag FOR JUST IN CASE saying that he felt a bit funny. He was still half asleep and zombie like so we knew that he wasn't actually going to throw up. This is when it all went sour! An Air hostess spotted my brother and came and asked if everything was ok. We said it was and explained the circumstances. My brother said "No, I am fine" to all of the questions they asked about his 'sickness'. I was already watching a movie, my grandma was asleep and we were relaxing on the plane. About 5 minutes later with barely any consultation, the air hostess came back and declared "The medical team has declared you unfit to fly," "I'm sorry?" "you have to get off the plane." We told her that he had been feeling funny for the last 10 minutes, that we had been flying all day, that it was 1:00AM in the morning but it was too late; our suitcases had already been taken off the plane! We got escorted off the plane (VERY EMBARRASSING) and through customs and then the lady told us "Your bags are waiting downstairs," "then what?" "Umm.. you just leave!" "THATS IT? You just kicked us off a plane with barely any consultation with the adults, when my son isn't even sick! We have connecting flights, and why inconvenience all 5 of us and not just take 2 of us off?" We were very angry! How many times had we seen people vomiting in airports - even boarding planes in a wheelchair because they couldn't walk from being so sick but not get kicked off the plane? So how come a young boy who was overtired got kicked off a plane? We ended up talking to the boss who could see that it was definitely an over reaction and that my brother was not sick and he rebooked us on the same flights the following night and gave us the BEST SEATS IN ECONOMY, with no extra charge! So there we were in Perth arriving at a country comfit inn at 1:30AM in the morning, with a perfectly healthy child after being kicked off a plane. And by that time - the anger had worn off and all 5 of us were in hysterics! Oh well, it is a story to tell - and at least we can say we have been to Perth now!
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