This is the thing that bothers me about flying...

[legion]

All it takes is jerky flight attendant and you can find yourself in jail.

https://abc11.com/travel/durham-woman-arrested-on-frontier-flight-after-complaint-about-vomit-in-seat/5269018/

Summary:

Woman and daughter board a Frontier flight. Woman and daughter take their seats. Daughter complains to mom that her seat is wet. Woman investigates and determines that her daughter's seat is soaked in vomit (as are her daughter's clothes). Woman complains to flight attendant. Flight attendant says that doing something about the vomit is not her job. Woman complains again and is arrested. Other passengers back up woman's story. Airline claims they offered to both clean the seat and find woman and daughter new seats.

I don't know about you, but I'd be pretty insistent if my kid was sitting in vomit and the airline refused to do anything about it.

[seafeye]

I’m not sure we have all the facts.
Every airline has a hazmat cleaning process. And it would be the flight attendants job to notify the captain who would call operations who then clean the mess.
In order for the woman to be arrested she would have had to be verbally or physically abusive.
Just complaining will not get anyone arrested. Maybe pulled off the flight.
If they were in flight then I’d have to ask why they didn’t mention this earlier. In either case the flight attendants are not responsible for cleaning up hazmat. Although I’d expect them to help if in flight.

[flipper35]

This is the part of the statement from Frontier that is bad.

Frontier Airlines said in a statement that "the flight attendants apologized and immediately invited the mother and her teenage daughter to move to either end of the plane so that the seat area could be cleaned."

The statement also said that "the mother and daughter were...told that once boarding was complete they would be provided other seats if available."

So if it were a fully booked flight, the kid would have to sit in the vomit all the way home?

[flipper35]

The full statement does say that they were offered to deplane and go on the next flight. In that case I don't know what the mom expected if there were no clean seats available. She should have gotten off and the airline should have given a full or partial refund same as if they had gotten bumped by deadheading flight crew.

[pwd72s]

Another story that makes me glad that there is no place I have to or want to be badly enough to go through the hassles of flying.