The transplant was not done at the same clinic used by Tobias Funke. Because that was a TV show … and this - ever stranger than fiction - is real life.
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The first rule of flight club is to never lose sight of your importance relative to Cost per Available Seat Mile in the sight of a commercial airline.
Let’s just say that CASM is a repeat guest in everyone’s financial filings; while “did you get to vegas” is not.
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American Airlines planes do not carry a first aid kit containing dressings and bandages?
It is not the flight crew’s responsibility to treat bleeding wounds that did not occur in flight. “Please don’t board our plane with undressed bleeding wounds” seems like a reasonable request.
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“More than my job’s worth to ensure the safety and satisfaction of all our clients”, said Capt. Jobsworth
I’d be interested to know if there’s a sharp line in terms of liability the way there is with authority between the pre-flight period and the inflight period(where it goes from ‘hassling public-facing workers is a dick move’ to ‘failure to comply with the flight crew can turn into big kid federal charges surprisingly quickly’).
If there’s some similar shift from “is basically a random bystander who might get sued for negligent folliclicide if you are supposed to use very specific coddling gauze for hair transplants and they only provided generic gauze” to “would need to do something dramatically incompetent or negligent to not be presumptively doing the right thing with limited onboard resources” that would probably be a strong incentive to keep people in need of medical treatment prior to flight off the flight rather than trying to improvise.
What about the safety of the flight crew and the other passengers? None of them signed up for the risk of being exposed to a strange person’s blood just because that person didn’t care to take care of it himself.
It’s not like the flight crew refused medical attention to someone who was injured mid-flight. That would’ve been a completely different situation.
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What about it?
The pair should have been able to apply a dressing and bandage, but they lacked the dressing and bandage, I did not suggest anyone else needed to become involved.
I also wonder how he managed to get past check-in, boarding lounge, boarding gate and onto the plane before anyone mentioned the issue.
You suggested the flight crew use time and resources to provide medical supplies that are on the plane to address in-flight emergencies. Meanwhile, everyone on the plane was being exposed to the guy’s blood.
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Have it your way, I am not interested in making a big deal out of it.
Have a lovely day.
I believe this falls under the jurisdiction of Confidently Incorrect (fun subreddit).
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