Delta reportedly issues groveling apology after passenger endures cross-country flight next to ‘diarrhea biohazard’

Delays and turbulence don’t compare to the nightmarish flight one passenger reportedly experienced while flying cross-country on Delta Air Lines.

The passenger shared their stomach-churning encounter in a Reddit post after their five-and-a-half four flight from Los Angeles to Florida.

What started as smooth-sailing with no layovers soon took a turn for the absolute worst when the passenger realized their seatmate had soiled himself.

The older man who sat next to the passenger reportedly needed airline assistance – but had no companion with him.

The traveler shared that his seatmate had ‘some serious mobility issues,’ so he was stuck in the window seat for five and a half hours.

‘Every breath was a gamble,’ the passenger wrote.

Even though the flight attendants kept checking on the elderly man, no one caught the foul issue that would soon follow.

‘When we landed, he immediately stood up (against instructions, naturally)… and that’s when the true horror revealed itself,’ the Redditor continued.

A passenger of Delta Air Lines shared a harrowing experience on their flight when their seatmate soiled himself on board (file photo)

‘There were literal poop smears on the seat. And on him. I had spent an entire cross-country flight marinating in that odor.’

The passenger was horrified by the sight and ‘stumbled off the plane in shock.’ One of the attendants apologized for the situation and asked the passenger why they didn’t ask for a mask.

‘Lady, I needed an exorcism,’ the passenger jokingly wrote.

‘She felt bad enough to give me 5,000 airline miles. Which is nice, but honestly, I think I deserved therapy and several showers.’

The Daily Mail has reached out to Delta Air Lines for comment.

The Redditor’s story went viral on the platform, with many social media users expressing their shock and disgust at the ordeal.

‘Such a joke. I got 10k miles for an “unleveled” tray table that actually wasn’t unleveled if something was placed on it,’ one comment read.

‘This makes me concerned to fly. I already know the airlines aren’t cleaning these seats as well as they should be after an incident like this,’ another added.

Delta reportedly apologized to the passenger and offered them 5,000 miles as consolation (file photo)

‘I want to know if they removed the entire contaminated seat before the plane departed again, or did the cleaners just spray it with Lysol. This is a literal biohazard,’ a third wondered.

‘If it makes you feel any better (probably not lol) i used to clean delta planes and they would give us a biohazard kit to clean stuff like this. mask, scrubs, all the good chemical stuff lol. it was taken pretty seriously,’ a fourth wrote.

According to the airline, every cabin is cleaned before a flight using electrostatic sprayers and high-grade disinfectant.

In certain cases, flight crews will ground a plane if a passenger’s bodily fluids present a biohazard risk.