'Just disgusting': Travellers kicked off Air Canada plane after speaking up about vomit-soiled seats

Air Canada says it is apologizing to customers after passengers' seats were reportedly soiled with vomit on a flight from Las Vegas to Montreal.

Air Canada says it is apologizing to customers after passengers' seats were reportedly soiled with vomit on a flight from Las Vegas to Montreal.

A woman who says she was a passenger on the Aug. 26 flight wrote in a social media post that the plane’s crew "placed coffee grinds in the seat pouch and sprayed perfume to mask the smell" of vomit prior to boarding. The flight from Las Vegas to Montreal clocks in at almost four and a half hours.

"She said, 'My seat is wet. It's on the front of the seat in front of me. It's on my seatbelt.' And she said, 'It's just disgusting.' And she pushed the button to bring a flight attendant," said Susan Benson in an interview with CTV News Montreal.

"When the clearly upset passengers tried to explain to the flight attendant that the seat and seatbelt were wet and there was still visible vomit residue in their area, the flight attendant was very apologetic but explained that the flight was full and there was nothing they could do," wrote Benson on Tuesday, Aug. 29. She says the passengers asked for a supervisor, who came shortly after.

"The supervisor came and just reiterated the same thing: 'We're sorry ... 'we've cleaned the best we can, there's nowhere else to put you, you're just gonna have to sit in it," she told CTV. "And she's like, 'We cannot sit and vomit for five hours."

Eventually, Benson says, the passengers asked for blankets to cover their seats for the flight, which they received, along with wipes and more sick bags.

When they got settled in, according to Benson, the pilot approached them and asked them to leave.