Not The Onion

12344 readers

409 users here now

Welcome

We're not The Onion! Not affiliated with them in any way! Not operated by them in any way! All the news here is real!

The Rules

Posts must be:

Links to news stories from...
...credible sources, with...
...their original headlines, that...
...would make people who see the headline think, “That has got to be a story from The Onion, America’s Finest News Source.”

Comments must abide by the server rules for Lemmy.world and generally abstain from trollish, bigoted, or otherwise disruptive behavior that makes this community less fun for everyone.

And that’s basically it!

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

kescusay@lemmy.world

278

United Airlines Flight Forced to Divert After Dog Pooped in First Class Aisle (people.com)

submitted 7 months ago by jeffw@lemmy.world to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

35 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] QuarterSwede@lemmy.world 118 points 7 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] Brunbrun6766@lemmy.world 58 points 7 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] fizix@lemmy.world 19 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] archomrade@midwest.social 3 points 7 months ago

Maybe it's just because I clean up dog poop everyday but human diarrhea is so much worse

[–] huginn@feddit.it 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] WarmSoda@lemm.ee 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Delta and United are different companies.

[–] huginn@feddit.it 1 points 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

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 21 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Tanoh@lemmy.world 13 points 7 months ago (2 children)

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...

[–] jeffw@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

Someone's seen Fight Club 😁

which airline do you work for?

a major one

dog softly growls

[–] Bocky@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

There was a really rich person pulling strings

[–] XTL@sopuli.xyz 6 points 7 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] toofpic@lemmy.world 9 points 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

[–] Paradachshund@lemmy.today 4 points 7 months ago

18th century europe says hello