your freedom isn't even a concern here, because the airlines have the right to refuse service for big issues, too bad issues doesn't start with an o

I have steel toe boots,will i need to take em off for a checkout in an airport?
I never traveled by plane before,that would svck.

Is that really a serious question? I mean really. It's basic common sense that you have to take off everything with metal in it unless it's in your luggage, everyone I know who hasn't been on a plane knows that too.

Actually in America I'm pretty sure everybody still has to remove their shoes and put them through the xray machine. :shrug:

The thing is, your smell is pretty easy to change, unless there is a bizarre disease/illness that makes someone smell bad. Why can't the guy just take a bath? It's really not that hard.

Why cant the kids who scream/cry or the woman shouting down her mobile shut up, it's really not that hard. I agree he should be kicked off but people who make to much noise annoy me more.

Well, I would WANT him removed, but it's not the right thing to do.

The plane is not a public space, it is a private space. The airline reserves the right to deny service to people who displease other customers, just like how a retail store reserves the right to deny entry to the same, such as known shoplifters or chronic customer service abusers.

IOW: It's their plane, not yours.

Ejecting one malodorous passenger to sate the noses of all the others is a lesser evil. Complaints of one passenger that should learn to take baths versus complaints of many passengers forced to endure his stench? Simple choice.

Agree with the airline. I too often travel with very smelly passengers...
However, it should be applied with caution as anyone has a smell and it can be offensive. When my ex wife, from Nigeria, went to London for the first time, she found english were smelling terribly, a bit like bad meat and she was having problem to take the tube. In Paris, it was another story. Too much garlic smells and 'spoiled food' (I guess the cheese ?) which is very offensive for some culture.

That reminds me of a story which happened with one of our ex-staff from Nigeria...
We sent the guy for a training in Houston. He had some families or friends down there and decided to bring from Nigeria some local smoked fishes. I have to say that most time, these fishes are not fully smoked and are often with maggots inside...
This was the case here... Don't ask me how he succeeded to pass the control at the airport... In my own case, they took even the can food for my baby daughter...
Then, the guy went to his hotel in Houston, around Katy Fwy and the West Loop for those who knows .............................

The next day, the travel dpt of my company in Houston got a panicked phone call from the hotel: "We have a major problem with one of your staff... Come and inspect the room !"

What happened is that when this dude arrived in the hotel room in Houston, he unpacked the fishes and to 'dry' them, passed them all to the microwave which was in the room and left them to 'dry' on the ground in the room. The whole room was smelling terribly like rotten fish and they had to change the rug and part of the fabrics on the wall. It costed 10 000 $ to the company.

The guy was kept for a while and made redundant in 2006 I think... He was in logistics and pretty well corrupted, so good move...

This a million times...

For bizarre read less unusual than you'd want to know, especially in places some people won't see a doctor about. Bacterial uaginosis (My poor old male spell checker even pretends that isn't a word ) can leave embarrassed women smelling like a fish market at twenty paces for example, and imagine you are 13 and your family doc is Mr Jones, a friend of your dad's. Personally, I find the biggest stink is what comes out of our mouths, we really fail as a species. Makandal, for example, I just will pretend you didn't actually say that.

Me too. :flame:

Different cultures have different smells, get over it.

Seriously. I was on a flight the other day - a 12 friggin' hour flight at night. This one couple just sat there cuddling and watching their seat teles together while their baby kept crying for over an hour. I finally got pissed off, got up and told them off about that. One of the flight attendants quietly thanked me afterwards

Same thing happened on our flight back from Aruba last year. Except there were two little brats. I was so tempted to do what you did, but family pressures kept me quiet. I had to endure that misery for the entire friggin flight. >.<

Stupid kids should go in the baggage section, they are more hassle than pets. I'd rather pets were allowed in the main area, they don't caterwaul for hours on end.

I hate children and babies. :flame:

You wouldn't say that if you travelled anywhere with our cats, They scream continuously from the first few seconds of incarceration.
Translated it goes "Help! Help! Murder! Treachery! All these years and now we're gonna be eaten! Rescue us from these treacherous owners and let their death be slow! etc.
You will hear pitiful howls every 10 seconds until they go hoarse. Or get a cuddle.

Well, some kids are teething, and to them it hurts like hell, so they scream. The other ones? Yeah, they are just annoying... :stare:

I've met some children who aren't very loud.. Even when they're bored, they just sleep... Life's little miracles.

:lol:

Crying babies seem to be big problem, not a stanky smell (although I would want him gone if he was too close). If the people that threw him off put as much effort into getting him gone they could fix loud obnoxious people.

Just drop the oxygen masks. Problem solved.

True, once they start kicking people off for various reasons, where do they stop? People with babies/small children, yeah it's annoying but what do you expect them to do? Kids can't sit still, and also deal with painful ear pressures; the cure for a smelly person is to take a damn shower. The cure for the fat guy is to lose some damn weight. You could say the parent shouldn't be on the plane, but sometimes it's unavoidable, especially if it's international adoption situations.

it takes 5 minutes to take a shower

little harder to solve the "I have an infant child" problem

It takes ten seconds to put on deodorant.

Or, it takes 2 seconds for the stinky dude to think damn, I smell really bad right now, I'm going to get a ticket after I get a hotel & bathe...

If I was removed from a plane because I was smelly, I would probably be so mad that I would cry and punch several people.

(That's the truth btw)

[censored] family/social pressures. I was dead exhausted from a long day of classes and work. Sitting on a very long, late night flight wasn't pleasant to begin with after a full day, so the last thing I was gonna put up with was stupidity