It was a round drip flight.
She had no trouble getting liquid on this plane: One California flyer allegedly had to take a seat under unidentified drippage from an overhead bag for a whole flight after the hostess refused to maneuver her or the leaky luggage.
A video depicting the passenger’s 20,000 leagues under the seat saga has reportedly amassed 3.5 million views on TikTok.
“It was the worst experience on a plane I’ve ever had,” Sophie Shaw, 24, told Kennedy News. “It was like Chinese Water torture.”
The cabin cascade occurred last month while the passenger was flying from San Jose to Santa Ana, en path to see friends in Los Angeles.
The San Francisco native, founding father of AI business Azuryne, claims she fell asleep shortly after takeoff but awoke after noticing that her “leg and seat were completely soaked.”
Shaw initially thought the woman next to her had spilled water until she looked up and saw “an enormous drip coming from the ceiling.”
Accompanying footage shows the unidentified droplets plopping down from a niche within the overhead, splattering the passenger’s seat as if she was sitting under a leaky roof during a monsoon.
That’s when the San Franciscan recalled seeing crewmembers try to staunch the leakage before takeoff.
“They put some paper towels within the locker, so I assume they’d tried to repair something but they couldn’t,” Shaw said.
Resulting from her petite stature, the 5-foot-2 tech-spert claims she couldn’t move the bag, so she enlisted a flight attendant’s help.
Unfortunately, the flight attendant “wasn’t sympathetic in any respect” to her undesired shower.
“I pressed the button and told the flight attendant but I assumed she checked out me as if I used to be a nuisance,” Shaw recounted. “I believe it must have been her job to make an even bigger deal out of it but she just said the flight was too full and she or he couldn’t move the bags.”
Because of this, the sopping-wet traveler was forced to take a seat under the waterfall for your entire one-and-a-half-hour flight.
“I attempted to shove myself to 1 half of the seat to avoid the dripping but my pants were completely soaked and I used to be principally sitting in a puddle,” Shaw lamented.
To make matters worse, periodic turbulence made the water land in several spots like droplet roulette, so even her shoes got soggy.
Shaw was especially “uncomfortable” as she didn’t know the provenance of the substance and feared that it might be “hazardous.”
Last month, air travel experts ranked the overhead bin as certainly one of the dirtiest spots on the plane since it is “rarely cleaned” and “touched by quite a lot of people.”
“It was really disgusting to take a seat through and I used to be feeling pretty grossed out your entire time so I literally just closed my eyes and listened to music to try to block it out,” she said. “I believe they need to have offered to scrub it up themselves on the bare minimum and rearranged the bags to try to stop the drip.”
Upon touching down, Shaw immediately filed a grievance to the assistance desk, who advised her to send in a web-based claim.
Southwest responded inside 8 hours, offering the traveler $150 as compensation, which she deemed stingy on condition that her flight was $160.
Shaw contacted the budget airline again but they didn’t respond.
The TikTok commentariat was way more sympathetic to Shaw’s “air drop” nightmare, although many thought she could’ve been more assertive about handling it.
“I’d’ve said so loudly ‘WHOSE BAG IS THIS !!!!’” claimed one armchair traveler, while snother wrote, “The scene I’d make! Absolutely not. Y’all are either tossing that bag or I’m!”
A 3rd chimed in, “Helllllllll nooooooooooooo. I’m non confrontational but I’d be confronting.”
It was a round drip flight.
She had no trouble getting liquid on this plane: One California flyer allegedly had to take a seat under unidentified drippage from an overhead bag for a whole flight after the hostess refused to maneuver her or the leaky luggage.
A video depicting the passenger’s 20,000 leagues under the seat saga has reportedly amassed 3.5 million views on TikTok.
“It was the worst experience on a plane I’ve ever had,” Sophie Shaw, 24, told Kennedy News. “It was like Chinese Water torture.”
The cabin cascade occurred last month while the passenger was flying from San Jose to Santa Ana, en path to see friends in Los Angeles.
The San Francisco native, founding father of AI business Azuryne, claims she fell asleep shortly after takeoff but awoke after noticing that her “leg and seat were completely soaked.”
Shaw initially thought the woman next to her had spilled water until she looked up and saw “an enormous drip coming from the ceiling.”
Accompanying footage shows the unidentified droplets plopping down from a niche within the overhead, splattering the passenger’s seat as if she was sitting under a leaky roof during a monsoon.
That’s when the San Franciscan recalled seeing crewmembers try to staunch the leakage before takeoff.
“They put some paper towels within the locker, so I assume they’d tried to repair something but they couldn’t,” Shaw said.
Resulting from her petite stature, the 5-foot-2 tech-spert claims she couldn’t move the bag, so she enlisted a flight attendant’s help.
Unfortunately, the flight attendant “wasn’t sympathetic in any respect” to her undesired shower.
“I pressed the button and told the flight attendant but I assumed she checked out me as if I used to be a nuisance,” Shaw recounted. “I believe it must have been her job to make an even bigger deal out of it but she just said the flight was too full and she or he couldn’t move the bags.”
Because of this, the sopping-wet traveler was forced to take a seat under the waterfall for your entire one-and-a-half-hour flight.
“I attempted to shove myself to 1 half of the seat to avoid the dripping but my pants were completely soaked and I used to be principally sitting in a puddle,” Shaw lamented.
To make matters worse, periodic turbulence made the water land in several spots like droplet roulette, so even her shoes got soggy.
Shaw was especially “uncomfortable” as she didn’t know the provenance of the substance and feared that it might be “hazardous.”
Last month, air travel experts ranked the overhead bin as certainly one of the dirtiest spots on the plane since it is “rarely cleaned” and “touched by quite a lot of people.”
“It was really disgusting to take a seat through and I used to be feeling pretty grossed out your entire time so I literally just closed my eyes and listened to music to try to block it out,” she said. “I believe they need to have offered to scrub it up themselves on the bare minimum and rearranged the bags to try to stop the drip.”
Upon touching down, Shaw immediately filed a grievance to the assistance desk, who advised her to send in a web-based claim.
Southwest responded inside 8 hours, offering the traveler $150 as compensation, which she deemed stingy on condition that her flight was $160.
Shaw contacted the budget airline again but they didn’t respond.
The TikTok commentariat was way more sympathetic to Shaw’s “air drop” nightmare, although many thought she could’ve been more assertive about handling it.
“I’d’ve said so loudly ‘WHOSE BAG IS THIS !!!!’” claimed one armchair traveler, while snother wrote, “The scene I’d make! Absolutely not. Y’all are either tossing that bag or I’m!”
A 3rd chimed in, “Helllllllll nooooooooooooo. I’m non confrontational but I’d be confronting.”
