• QuarterSwede@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    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.

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      7 months ago

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

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        7 months ago

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

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        7 months ago

        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.

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            7 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

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      7 months ago

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

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        7 months ago

        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…

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          7 months ago

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

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      7 months ago

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

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        7 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