A business class passenger has been banned from all United Airlines flights after allegedly urinating on another customer during a long-haul flight.
Jerome Gutierrez, a fellow passenger, said he was asleep on the San Francisco to Manila flight and woke up soaked from the stomach down in another man's urine. The incident occurred four hours into the 15-hour red-eye journey, leaving Mr Gutierrez to endure the remainder of the flight in damp, smelly clothing.
The man who urinated on him was reportedly a total stranger and, instead of using the restroom, stood up and relieved himself directly onto Mr Gutierrez. Nicole Cornell, Mr Gutierrez's stepdaughter, said he was "asleep and buckled in" and was surprised when he looked at the man. She criticised United Airlines for not turning the plane around, calling the incident a biohazard and saying the airline put its own needs before her stepfather's health.
United Airlines spokesperson Anoushah Rasta confirmed to SFGATE that there had been a "disturbance" on the flight and that the instigator had been banned. "We have banned this passenger," she wrote in an email.
