Kicked Off the Plane for Coughing?

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Originally Posted by OTW

She's going to Egypt next week for a wedding...hopefully she won't be sick this time.

As unfair as it sounds, we've all been on flights where someone's coughed uncontrollably and I'm sure we've turned and breathed the other way because the coughing made us feel uncomfortable.

I've taken that EWR-HNL nonstop many times and it's one long azz flight. If something happened to her midflight, I'm sure it would have been a pain to find a major airport to land the 767 and if they were over ocean, then ! Remember that it's 5-5 1/2 hrs from LA to HNL!

They interviewed her on the local news the other night and she didn't seem like she was too upset about it. Continental took care of their expenses while in NYC, but I'm surprised they didn't help them find hotel accomodations after they were asked to leave the plane. They usually offer that when the flight's oversold.

remind me to throw that one in the "what i've learned from GC" thread.
i'm glad the girl handled it OK.

however if it was JUST a cold, then i dont see much room for it to have gotten so bad that they'd have to emergency land...