Seems like there should be an Osha violation or something about this. That’s a health hazard and while I understand there’s limited seating, it should be the plane’s responsibility to compensate the passengers for expecting them to sit in biohazardous filth, instead they just threatened them with being put on a no-fly list unless they got off the plane of their own volition with likely no compensation.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Air Canada has apologised after kicking two passengers off a flight for refusing to sit in vomit-smeared seats.

Susan Benson, who was on the Las Vegas-Montreal service, said the pilot warned the passengers they would be put on a no-fly list if they kept complaining.

She added that staff had tried to cover “a bit of a foul smell” with perfume and coffee grounds.

“We didn’t know at first what the problem was,” Ms Benson posted on Facebook of the flight late last month.

The passengers were told “they could leave the plane… and organise flights on their own dime, or they would be escorted off by security and placed on a no-fly list!”

Air Canada said it was “reviewing this serious matter” and that “operating procedures were not followed correctly in this instance”.

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That is insane

She added that staff had tried to cover “a bit of a foul smell” with perfume and coffee grounds.

This “covering up” makes it all sound so sinister. The poor flight crew had to clean up someone’s puke and they did the best they could with available materials. They failed, but their attempt shouldn’t be cast as some kind of furtive effort to sweep the truth under a rug.

Legendary canadian politeness