"Urinating" flight ban - Easyjet

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An airline banned a group of golfers last week after someone urinated into a seat pocket during a flight from Bristol to Portugal.

EasyJet said one of the 15 golfers was responsible for the "repulsive" act and refused to allow them on the return flight.


One of the golfers Robert Bennett, 48, from Abergavenny, south Wales, denied the claims and said he was now considering legal action.

An easyJet spokeswoman said cabin crew were horrified when they made the discovery after landing at Faro airport.

"Our staff were cleaning the aircraft ahead of its return trip to Bristol when they discovered one of the group had urinated into the seat pocket," Samantha Day said.

"Our cabin crew were faced with a repulsive incident. It is just disgusting. It is totally unreasonable behaviour."

Ms Day said the group was already on its way to the resort of Praia da Rocha on the Algarve when it was decided to ban them from the airline.

After an eight-hour journey via Lisbon and Brussels, the group eventually arrived back at Bristol airport on Tuesday afternoon.

Mr Bennett said he was "disgusted" the airline had "blacklisted" the group.

"I am totally flabbergasted, I don't know where this claim that one of the group urinated came from," he said.

"We now look like a bunch of hooligans, but we aren't, we are a group of men mostly in our 40s. We just wouldn't do that."

He accused easyJet of leaving the party "high and dry" in Faro with no way of getting home.

Ms Day said easyJet would not compensate the group for their flight home and insisted the men owed the cabin crew an apology.


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