Any way you add it up, those numbers don’t look good.
Qantas passengers struck down with gastro on flight from Chile
In terms of unpleasant flights, that has to be up there with the best/worst of them. :eek:
And many of the people who weren’t sick on the plane are probably going to start feeling a little barfy themselves in a few days. Norovirus is a bitch.
Good thing they had someone up there who could not only fly the plane, but who didn’t have fish for dinner.
Why would they report “less than 10” toilets? How hard is it to count the exact number?
Yeah, if it was noro and I was on that flight then I’d be staying within touching distance of a bathroom for a few days. All those lovely infectious droplets recirculating through the air for 13 hours. Blech.
Well, do you want to go in and count a bunch of toilets that have been barfed and pooped in (and around) by a group of 20-plus teenagers for 13 hours straight? They probably won’t even clean the plane, they’ll just nuke it from orbit. Like they do with camp sites after rock festivals.
Maybe they weren’t sure whether or not to count the two empty Folgers cans?
A nice bit of ad placement on a news story about this. 
I fear Quantas’ record of never having had a crash may be in jeopardy.
Well, this just added to my fear of flying. I have no fear of dying in a plane crash or of being that far off the ground, but the thought of being trapped in a glorified tuna can with 2 dozen multi-spewing humans makes me want to run screaming from Santiago to Sydney.
We really need an :urp: smiley for threads like this.
Holy shit. What’s the incubation period or whatever you call it for norovirus? I had no idea it could be that fast.
Gee, and I thought my attack of indigestion last night was bad.
Poor passengers. 
24-48 hours according to the article. They had symptoms before they boarded.
:dubious: Oh, just great.
Someone vomited on me on a plane once, and I got sick exactly 36 hours later.
Lost six pounds though.
Those poor passengers…
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OK, this is flying ugly. Forget every single complaint about legroom, overhead storage or fees. Some people in there would probably not have minded a sudden depressurization. Yikes.
The person writing the brief probably looked up some reference where various different configurations of 747 they fly appear and may have been unable to nail down what was the specific variation on this one. Or just asked whoever was available around at Quantas who said, “well, I don’t know the exact number on this one but I’m sure there were no more than ten lavs available”.
Though it sounds like they’re referring only to the main coach cabin lavs. All the 747-400 versions I’m looking up in seatguru.com show me no less than 10 and as many as 14 lavatories total if you count First/Business classes and the upper deck.
Not. Going. There.
It is Qantas, no “u”. Originally Queensland And Northern Territory Air Services.