<p>Well I still have not heard from anyone. I am not a very patient person…lol. AND I am still sick. UGH! Not stomach still, but now I have a full symptom cold.</p>
<p>Keep trying! What you experienced was revolting. Every person on that cleaning crew should be fired, because it is their job to, you know, clean the airplane between flights. There is no way they could have missed a puddle of vomit unless they deliberately chose to ignore it or deposited it there themselves.</p>
<p>My personal attitude toward flying is to always expect the worst. I mean full on gates of Hell: crying babies; drunk people; obnoxious entitled jerks; repulsive, expensive “food;” bad weather; delays for no obvious reason; mechanical failures; clear air turbulence; missed flights; malfunctioning air vents; filthy lavs; body odor; puddles of puke or worse; and seats that do not recline. Then, when all I encounter is a mere 6 hour delay, I’m absolutely thrilled and think this was the best flight ever.</p>
<p>It’s probably still not funny to you, but it will be some day.</p>
<p>It’s just the sort of situation that Catharine Hamm of the LA Times likes to feature in her Sunday column on air travel problems. She always contacts the airlines and often elicits compensation for victims of situations as outrageous as you have described. You could copy your original post and send it to <a href="mailto:travel@latimes.com">travel@latimes.com</a>. </p>
<p>I’m leaving this week on an international flight, and you can bet I’ll check the seat pockets before buckling up!</p>
<p>Two weeks till my flight to Europe, and I would not have thought to check the seat pocket before using it. The things you learn on CC!</p>
<p>Thirty years ago my friend and I flew to Germany, and her seat was damp from a previous “incident” (vomit). It had been cleaned but not that well. The flight attendant gave us a blanket to cover it, but it still smelled. Full flight so no where to move. My friend and I still talk about it 30 years later! And in addition, that day of flight was her birthday!</p>
<p>Sorry for that, OP. I once saw an " airline travel expert" discuss health and sanitation on planes. He said either don’t use those seat pockets or if necessary, protect your stuff in plastic bags as lab tests reveal they are exceptionally full of germs and bacteria. Apparently, people put leaky diapers, messy food, etc. in and the cleaning is, as we all can confirm, spotty. Of course, there are few options and everyone needs something with them on long flights. </p>
<p>Reading this, if I discovered something similar and the plane was boarded, I’d be tempted to go scope out the plane for empty seats, including first class, before reporting it. Then I’d have a better idea of options. I don’t think I could have made the trip if the remedy would be to have a quick clean up by flight crew and remaining in the seat. Probably would have had trouble even if nearby the stench. </p>
<p>Yikes. Clean, safe, and fun travels to all.</p>
<p>Few years ago, when a poster on CC was having problem with AAA during a bad snow storm, I forwarded the thread to some very senior person at AAA. I told them that it was bad press for them because of their irresponsible behavior. The poster then got very fast response from them. OP may want to send a link of this thread to Air France and Delta.</p>
<p>^^It is amazing how many times a CC Parent Cafe thread comes up at the top of the results in Google searches!</p>
<p>(Delta put us in the first class, and the plane was an older 757 staffed by a very experienced crew - phew)</p>
<p>Oldfort, that’s a great idea to send a link to the thread.
Here are the contacts for Delta.
[Delta</a> Air Lines](<a href=“Home - Elliott Report”>Delta Air Lines Customer Service Contact Support Via Email Exec Contacts - Elliott Report)</p>
<p>Here are the Air France Facebook and Twitter links. Social media is probably the best bet with them.
<a href=“https://www.facebook.com/airfrance[/url]”>https://www.facebook.com/airfrance</a>
<a href=“https://twitter.com/AIRFRANCE[/url]”>https://twitter.com/AIRFRANCE</a></p>
<p>Since you flew on Air France you should be contacting them, not Delta. Delta and AF have a flying agreement but are separate companies completely and how can Delta help you if it wasn’t their plane you were on? I think you would get further if you contact the company you were actually flying on–their plane, their employees, their cleaners. I doubt Delta can check to see what happened since it had nothing to do with them.
On another note, I am appalled that the people who put the vomit there did not notify someone…this is just so unacceptable. And the cleaners? I know it is most likely a quick turnaround time but how do they not check the seat pockets and when they are cleaning that row how do they not smell the vomit? I would think this is a stop everything situation and get someone on to disinfect the entire area immediately when OP notified the flight crew. It was handled very badly.</p>
<p>So as I write this I am on a flight from Texas to Florida in which there is a wad of gum stuck to the armrest in front of me and the inflight magazine gave off a whiff of vomit when I pulled it out of the seat pocket. The good news is I have a whole row to myself and no one did the crossword yet.</p>
<p>On another travel note, the gate agent just now at DFW was incredibly rude to a Mexican couple who were booked on two different flights and confused about what to do. They spoke NO English, and rather than try to find someone to help them he just spoke louder and more insistently to them, saying “I don’t know how I could POSSIBLY make myself any more clear!” Sometimes you just have to wonder how certain people end up in service professions.</p>