[span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(128, 0, 0);"] Lise wrote:[/span][br style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(128, 0, 0);"][span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(128, 0, 0);"]Yeah. Booted her off for coughing and hacking too much. I can understand if you get kicked off for being under the influence of alcohol but to be kicked off for something like this is poor judgement.[/span]
Maybe. But if she was panicking and had trouble getting air, maybe it wasn't such a bad idea. Even if a doctor looked at her, it's hard to know what someone has going on in their lungs. And it was cheaper for the plane to head back after takeoff than to do a full landing mid-flight if things should have gotten worse.
I know that when I'm flying sometimes, it seems hard to get air on the plane without having a cold. It does seem to have been embarrassing for her, and unnecessary in the end, but I'd be more concerned if the pilot adamantly refused to land, or pay attention to passenger needs, as they are far more likely to do.