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[–] QuarterSwede 118 points 8 months ago (3 children)

One commenter on X, who said their partner was on the Delta flight, reported that it “smelled horrible” and that vanilla-scented disinfectant used to mask the odor “only made it smell like vanilla s---.”

Hahahahhaha.

[–] Brunbrun6766 59 points 8 months ago (2 children)

INCREDIBLE stench if someone on a neighboring DELTA flight could smell the dog shit on this UNITED flight

[–] fizix 19 points 8 months ago (1 children)

They were relating in the article about another similar event on a Delta flight that had to divert for a human passenger's diarrhea.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Maybe it's just because I clean up dog poop everyday but human diarrhea is so much worse

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yeah even with code shares I don't think Delta and United are ever the same carrier. Maybe?

Seems unlikely though. Sky West and smaller carriers don't usually share flights between multiple big carriers afaik.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Delta and United are different companies.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Yes they are. Never said otherwise.

Code shares are weird and if you don't know about them you should look them up - what I'm saying is that code shares don't get split between two major carriers as far as I know.

So you'll never have a flight that is both United and Delta ticketed. But you'll often have a flight that is United and ANA ticketed. Or Delta and ItalAir

[–] FuglyDuck 21 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It must have been a truly … profound…. Smell if they weren’t able to clean it up after 2 hours and had to divert.

[–] Tanoh 13 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Diverting is really expensive for the airlines, so you know they only do it if there is no other way. So it can't just have been a bit of a bad smell...

[–] Bocky 3 points 8 months ago

There was a really rich person pulling strings

[–] jeffw 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Maybe there’s a formula, like cost per puke * pukers and when that exceeds the divert cost, they just go for it

[–] Viking_Hippie 1 points 8 months ago

Someone's seen Fight Club 😁

which airline do you work for?

a major one

dog softly growls

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I can't fathom the thinking of people who believe that adding more smell will make a bad smell better.

[–] toofpic 9 points 8 months ago

Some smells mask smell of shit better. There's even an old-school method of lighting and putting out the match after you did number 2: sulfur smoke kills the shittiness of ahit smell somehow

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

18th century europe says hello

[–] aeronmelon 78 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Betcha that if it happened in coach they would've kept going.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 8 months ago (1 children)

With a PA message that there is a free meal in the aisle for whoever wants it

[–] HWK_290 4 points 8 months ago

Chicken or fish? Or poop?

[–] [email protected] 31 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

boeing

wtf i love this dog now

[–] [email protected] 30 points 8 months ago (1 children)

If it had pooped in the coach aisle, they would have just stayed in the air.

[–] Chainweasel 7 points 8 months ago

If it happened in coach they would have turned the heat up so people could smell it better.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Fuckin Boeing at it again.

[–] Viking_Hippie 8 points 8 months ago

Probably not. With the build quality of Boeing planes, the floor would probably have collapsed under the weight of the turd 😉

[–] harrybo93 19 points 8 months ago

Oh ffs another Boeing headline—-

Oh, ok, oh that’s good. Good dog

[–] autumn_rain 6 points 8 months ago

That poor, poor dog!!... it sounds like something serious like pancreatitis.