Currently on a Southwest flight flying from MCI to LGA. Scheduled takeoff was 11:30 am CST. By 11am, they slowly started to gather Group 1 for boarding. They were standing there for about 10 minutes before an announcement was made stating there was a minor problem on the plane, and that theyâd share more details soon.
10 minutes later, they announced that someone got really sick on the plane we were about to board, and that a cleaning crew was coming to asses. The person over the loudspeaker kept saying âI canât, in good faith, board anyone on that plane right now.â They stated if they couldnât control the smell, theyâd find another plane for us, estimated to take 1.5 hours.
Probably 20 minutes after that, loudspeaker made a second announcement that there was, in fact, no accident, and someone was pranking the plane with fart spray. They stated that the cleaning crew was still trying to handle the smell left behind.
They offered face masks to those sitting in the rows of the fart spray aftermath. The loudspeaker person announced that this was not the first time in the 30 years of his job that this has happened.
Itâs almost 12:35 pm CST and the plane has just began to taxi for takeoff. Pretty shitty. Pun intended.