Do you smell good enough to fly Jazz Air?

If you smell so bad other people complain,then you should be removed. majority rules.

Mr. Travel seems to be pointing out an excuse for stinky people, NOT being a racist. Why is it the race card always gets thrown out there when people have nothing else to say?!?

We all smell to some extent or another. DO NOT blame ASIANS. My fellow "white" people smells like rotten cheese at times. I wonder why. Maybe some of them shower once a month and the rest of the time spray on cologne.

If we could all move away from the race/culture card and focus on the issue. This gentleman had a condition about him that was offending the other passengers as well as the staff. Jazz is a company, not a government institution. As such, it has the responsibility to ensure their consumers and staff are happy and safe. If his odour was bad enough to warrant being ejected from the flight, I am willing to hazard a guess that it could have compromised the flight safety in that the staff wouldn’t be able to concentrate on their tasks. In that, Jazz would have been in contravention of Bill C45 if they had allowed their employees to continue to operate in potentially hazardous conditions.

Jazz made an effort to accommodate this individuals travel, however no suitable alternative was available.

We, as a society, are terrified of someone saying that we have been discriminatory in some manner. Man or woman, of any religion, colour or creed, if you are potentially interfering with the safe operation of a business, in any manner, including offensive odour, the business has not only the right, but the responsibility to refuse you service to ensure the safety of the other customers and staff.

This is a situation that we, as a people, should use to temper our future policy. The rights of a single individual do not overrule the rights of the majority. If anyone claims this is discrimination, they should look at the spirit of the term.

I can appreciate both sides of this argument. I have offensive body odor and avoid people, especially in confined spaces, as much as possible. This problem has persisted for over 40 years. In my case, it is not a lack of cleanliness. I shower up to 4 times a day and never wear the same clothes twice without washing. I have tried dietary changes to no avail. Thirteen doctors, many of them specialists, were of no help. This is embarrassing for my family also so I stay away from social functions like graduations, weddings, holidays, etc.. Fortunately for my co-workers, cancer forced me into early retirement. I have sympathy for those who come in contact with me and sincerely wish that there was a solution.

Some cultures from South Asia have an apparent allergy to soap and water. Ignorant comment. Most of the South Asia is in rainy region. Warm weather. People bath everyday, some people twice a day. There is no short of water.

I applaud JAZZ and their decision to deplane the smelly passenger before take-off. Anyone who feels sorry for this person is someone who has obviously never had the pleasure of sharing a cramped aircraft compartment with someone with little or no regular hygeine routine in place..he likes how he smells, so he should rent a rent a car and bask in all that is his glory and save the rest of the traveling public their stomachs..

what about people that drench themselves with perfume etc.I get sick smelling that mess.

It is a difficult and sensitive issue, especially when you think about how many workplaces these days have perfume banns, due to sensitivity for scents. Unfortunately, not all people are aware of their own BO, so it would take a tactful person to step forward, and there seem to be so few people that can handle constructive criticismit seems...

I would like to more details about the story before truly praising or condemning either party in this story, but assuming all the other people on board had a problem with his smell, the I agree with Jazz's decision.

Yes there are medical conditions that can cause bad smells, and people's diets have an effect on their personal scent... but smelling like fish, beef, curry, mild BO is one thing, extremely bad BO that saturates a room is another.

I've had a client who smelled like stale BO - it almost made my eyes water and I had to breath through my mouth and I could still barely tolerate it and if this air traveller smelled that bad, I have to agree with the decision to remove him from the plane.

If a person does have a legitimate medical condition, they would be aware of it an should have taken what precautions as necessary to avoid it. It they are so arrogant as to feel they don't have to be courteous to the others they are going to be crammed in with for any period of time, it should not come to a shock to them when we say we don't care about your condition - take a bath.

If only a couple people complained about this air traveller's smell, then moving him around would have solved it (as they apparently tried), but if so many people complained, the the airline did the right thing.

I don't think that someone who stinks so bad can hide behind a human right to smell bad when their smell makes other physically ill - those others have a right to fresh air.

Some may try to make the argument that ejecting him based on smell (especially if due to medical reasons) is no less abhorrent than ejecting a person in a wheel chair, but they would be wrong. Even those with certain medical conditions or disabilities have to conform to some degree to "normal" standards. I truly doubt that someone with such an extreme medical condition has no recourse but to bask in their natural odor - its just absolutely inconsiderate to think that everyone else has to but up with it.

Good for Jazz.

many years ago i encounter similar exsperience on board cpairline from toronto to italy! My GOD i will never ferget it as long as i live. It was a women not that old! but a man sitting next to her asked the hostess to find him on other sit no matter were ; my self, and on other lady traveled all the way to rome with a stink of rothen sures, we wore in the midle section of the plane. We had no where to go.!! i applause jazz airline good for you!!!!

stop using tissue..use water for cleaning ur ass......specialy at work place and during flight some ppl are in hurry and dont wipe thier ass properly..and it becomes terrible for ppl around him to survive..usingw ater is the best solution and its nature freindly

Peopel there smell bad should not be alowed to get on any airline anywher in the wold, and that go for woman to, some woman take a bad with perfume, it is a stink I CAN`T put up with I will get very sik with hartburn

After reading this article, I will encourage the importance of not offending with odor by making Jazz my FIRST CHOICE for all airline travel I book.

"… He should have just been left alone and people should have dealt with the smell.”
Dude, they did deal with it, and he was left alone, back at the terminal. All you Americans out there, this is what we call a non violent solution. You should be taking notes.

i worked at a photo lab once and a man came in with a odor soooooo bad from sleeping in his van with his 3 or 4 saint bernard dogs that i could smell him right from the counter to the back of the lab. I almost threw up everywhere. No one could handle it, so the manager had to serve him and get him out as quickly as possible and that held true for him picking up his pics too. so i really believe the airline had every right to take the man with the bo off the plane.