Article: Should Airlines Rebook Sick Passengers for Free?

[MEL_Traveller]

It’s not just passengers. It’s crew.

You have a crew member or two out at an outstation and the next flight back can be delayed 24 hours.

Or you have a biohazard on board when a passenger is vomiting or otherwise.

It must, at some point, be in the interests of the airline to prevent sick pax from flying.

 

[JohnK]

I'll keep saying this is a tough one.

We flew Christmas Day BNE-PER then next morning PER-SIN. I headed off for SIN-BKK and wife/daughter waited a couple of hours or so and flew SIN-CNX.

Wife picked up a nagging cough. She was fine in Brisbane and sick the next night in Chiang Mai. She thinks she picked it up on the flight. She usually wears a mask but not sure she wore on this flight.

We were in Thailand for 4 weeks. Chiang Mai, Pattaya and back to Chiang Mai before flying out. Daughter and I has nothing. Have we had this one before? Anyway cough cleared up a day or so before we flew back out to Australia.

If wife was still coughing should she be refused boarding? She is Thai but let's say that was someone on holidays with visa running out and no money for hotel or new flight. How long before they get better? Could be months. Tough call to make to refuse them passage.

If you are going to be strict on people flying then you need to be strict in the community first. If you're sick and have fever you can't be out and about on public transport, work, shopping etc. People just don't care which is a piss poor attitude.

 

[Quickstatus]

Wife picked up a nagging cough. She was fine in Brisbane and sick the next night in Chiang Mai. She thinks she picked it up on the flight

The start of symptoms relating to an infectious illness is almost always not related to the time of infection. Most likely the time of infection would have been in Brisbane.