Passenger who urinated in air-sickness bag gets apology from airline

Passenger who urinated in air-sickness bag gets apology from airline


SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — SkyWest Airlines apologized to a passenger who said he wasn't allowed to use the restroom during a one-hour flight and ended up urinating in an air-sickness bag after two "really big beers."

James Whipple was on a flight to Salt Lake City from Boise, on March 7 and wanted to use the cabin restroom. The captain, however, had declared it off-limits during the short flight because a light wasn't working.

Whipple said he had two "really big beers" in the Boise airport. He used the cabin restroom before the plane departed but had to go again and finally reached for the air-sickness bag.

"It was like I had no choice," Whipple told The Salt Lake Tribune, which posted the story on its website Friday.

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 to Sandy, a Salt Lake City suburb.

The airline sent him a letter of apology and a flight voucher, SkyWest spokeswoman Sabrena Suite-Mangum said Friday.

She said SkyWest decided to go ahead with the flight and get the light fixed in Salt Lake City, rather than delaying it or canceling 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 said.
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Re: Passenger who urinated in air-sickness bag gets apology from airline

Sometimes you just can't hold it in....

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Re: Passenger who urinated in air-sickness bag gets apology from airline

OMG - this just made me laugh

when you gotta go, you gotta go!

Message edited 3/17/2007 4:49:02 PM.

Re: Passenger who urinated in air-sickness bag gets apology from airline

yuck!

when DH and I flew from JFK to Raleigh, the 1 bathroom on the plane was broken. it's only a 1 hour and 20 minute flight, but we were sitting on the runway for over an hour waiting to take off. good thing there wasn't an emergency like that on our flight!

Re: Passenger who urinated in air-sickness bag gets apology from airline

If I had to go I would have done that too.

Re: Passenger who urinated in air-sickness bag gets apology from airline

I don't think it's ever acceptable to deny someone the use of a bathroom under any circumstances...especialy on a plane. If it's a restaraunt you can just leave and go elsewhere, on a plane, you're trapped. They're lucky it was just urine..what if someone had eaten some bad tamales?

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Posted by Blu-ize

If I had to go I would have done that too.

me too! but if a girl had gone in a bag it would've been messy .